"We're taking a retrofit approach.
"Roost has hit upon a unique retrofit approach that enables every consumer to enter the smart home market without buying shiny new devices or spending hundreds of dollars," said Adam Boyden, Managing Director, RPM Ventures.
The results show that older reinforced concrete shear walls are likely to exhibit limited lateral displacement capacity without retrofit or with the use of a single retrofit approach.
This paper proposes a 'proactive' retrofit approach which seeks to integrate net-positive, restorative and regenerative design concepts into building retrofits.
The Integrated System ISS) retrofit approach enables much greater energy savings by leveraging interactive effects between end use systems, enabling downsized or lower energy technologies.
This paper presents a case study in Hawaii quantifying the benefits of an IS retrofit approach compared to two traditional retrofit approaches: a Standard Practice of upgrading equipment to meet minimum code requirements, and an Improved Practice of upgrading equipment to a higher efficiency.
Although considerable potential for energy savings can be identified from conventional retrofit approaches, the proposed solutions have rarely been adopted in practice, due to significant topology modifications required and resulting engineering complexities during implementation.
Main operational and geometrical constraints are taken into account in furnace retrofit integration approach created earlier.
The retrofit design approach is developed from the pseudo-static response analysis of an idealized elastic plastic, single degree-of-freedom system.
Nonlinear dynamic analysis results indicate that the column-loss response of the braced frames is approximated to the performance target and thus the proposed retrofit design approach is feasible for practical applications.
The response of the damaged frames is evaluated when retrofitted using three approaches, namely, increasing the strength of the beams, increasing the stiffness of the beams, and increasing both strength and stiffness of the beams.
