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Indoor moisture control of Auckland houses with different ventilation systems
(World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2013)Auckland has a temperate climate with comfortable warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Auckland house design not only focus on winter thermal performance and indoor thermal condition, but also indoor moisture control, ... -
Investigation of the internal functioning of the radial basis function neural network river flow forecasting models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009-03)This paper deals with the challenging problem of hydrological interpretation of the internal functioning of ANNs by extracting knowledge from their solutions. The neural network used in this study is based on the structure ... -
A low damage and ductile rocking timber wall with passive energy dissipation devices
(Techno-Press, 2015-07)In conventional seismic design, structures are assumed to be fixed at the base. To reduce the impact of earthquake loading, while at the same time providing an economically feasible structure, minor damage is tolerated in ... -
Medium-density dwellings in Auckland and the building regulations
(Unitec ePress, 2018-07-25)National thermal standards have historically been set to minimise winter heating energy in detached houses. It is uncertain whether these standards are optimal for the increasing number of joined, medium-density dwellings ... -
A method of sound wave diffusion in motor vehicle exhaust systems
(Unitec ePress, 2017-04-04)It is common practice among young vehicle owners to modify the exhaust system of their vehicle to reduce exhaust backpressure with the perception that the output power increases. In the process of backpressure reduction, ... -
Microwave nondestructive testing of wood anisotropy and scatter
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013-01-08)Abstract- A microwave Focused Beam transmission measurement is identified as a good candidate for fast, accurate and affordable industrial wood testing. In this paper, the transmission measurement setup, in its various ... -
Mitigating nitrogen oxides exhaust emissions from petrol vehicles by application of a fuel additive
(Unitec ePress, 2020-08-10)This research has been commissioned by Eco Fuel Global Limited, a New Zealand-based company, to further evaluate the effects of their fuel-additive product on the tail-pipe exhaust emissions of petrol cars. At the time ... -
A new adaptive load-shedding and restoration strategy for autonomous operation of microgrids: a real-time study
(2020-01)Islanding operation is one of the main features of a MicroGrid (MG), which is realized regarding the presence of distributed energy resources (DERs). However, in order to deal with the control challenges, which an MG faces ... -
Nexus between creative industries and the built environment : creative place making in inner Auckland
(Higher Education Press (Beijing, China) + KeAi Communications (Oxford UK), 2019-10-22)A significant body of literature has examined the location decision-making of creative industry firms. However, research on the nexus between design creative industries and the built environment remains limited. The key ... -
The Participation of Women Employed in Traditionally Male Dominated Occupations including Plumbing: 1975 – 2013
(Unitec ePress, 2015-02)Author Garry Cruickshank investigates the gender gap in New Zealand’s plumbing profession. Having established that the proportion of female plumbers is almost unchanged since 1975, Cruickshank compares this information ... -
Particulate matter in residential buildings in New Zealand : Part I. Variability of particle transport into unoccupied spaces with mechanical ventilation
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-03-11)Air pollution measured as particulate matter (PM) has been shown to be detrimental to human health and can lead to increased mortality rates. There are four main indoor sources of episodic PM emissions: smoking, cooking, ... -
Particulate matter in residential buildings in New Zealand : Part II. The impact of building airtightness, mechanical ventilation using simulated occupancy
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-03-12)Many occupant activities can adversely affect indoor air quality which has been shown to be detrimental to human health. This research eliminated some of the variability of previous measured levels of indoor particulate ... -
Pavement crack classification using deep convolutional neural network
(College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 2021-11-15)Road safety is one of the more difficult aspects concerning the field of civil engineering. Manual road inspection and distress detection by a road surveyor is a time-consuming, dangerous, and laborious process. This paper ... -
The power of place : a case study of Auckland's design creative industries
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2017-11-16)Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city which also has the largest concentration of creative sector employment and businesses in the country. This study examines the spatial logic of firms in the design creative subsector ... -
Prevention of winter mould growth in housing
(2006)This paper reports on a study that researched the possibility of building passive designs to prevent mould growth in housing in humid and mild winter climatic zones without permanent thermal active controls. This study ... -
Production and characterisation of low-tech activated carbon from coconut shell
(Journal of Hydrology and Environment Research - JHER, 2015-06-04)In this paper, prospect of employing a low-tech preparation of coconut shell as activated carbon was investigated. Activated carbon was prepared from locally available coconut shell with simple, inexpensive and low-tech ... -
The productivity paradox in green buildings
(MDPI - Open Access Publishing, 2016-04-08)In this paper we challenge the notion that “green” buildings can achieve greater productivity than buildings that are not accredited as “green”. For nearly two decades, research has produced apparent evidence which indicates ... -
Quantifying and managing plastic waste generated from building construction in Auckland, New Zealand
(SAGE Publications, 2022-05-14)Each year, construction and demolition (C&D) waste contributes at least 25,000tonnes to the total amount of plastic landfilled in Auckland, New Zealand. The growing use of plastic in the packaging of building materials, ... -
A reconfigurable data-path accelerator based on single-flux quantum circuits
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-03)The single-flux quantum (SFQ) is expected to be a next-generation high-speed and low-power technology in the field of logic-circuits. CMOS as the dominant technology for conventional processors cannot be replaced with SFQ ... -
The response of Auckland construction firms to recent technological changes
(Unitec ePress, 2021-07-08)Over the past decade the impacts of technology on the construction sector have been profound. This trend presents significant challenges for construction firms in an environment characterised by skilled-labour shortages ...