The document discusses two building projects that utilized innovative structural and enclosure systems:
1) The Lowara Office Building designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop features a glass curtain wall facade.
2) Hall 26 at the Hanover Expo designed by Herzog and Partner and Schlaich Bergermann and Partner is a large span structure covered by a lightweight roof system allowing for natural ventilation and daylight while restricting direct sunlight. It uses renewable materials and conserves energy.
This document discusses the cladding of buildings. It defines cladding as an external finish applied to improve a building's appearance and resistance to weathering. The main purposes of cladding are to separate the indoor and outdoor environments and maintain suitable indoor conditions by preventing water, air, light, noise, and fire penetration. It also discusses the types of cladding units and how cladding must withstand wind loads and structural movements without cracking.
This document discusses different types of small unit cladding that can be fixed to structural backing walls. It describes tile, timber, and stone cladding. Tile cladding involves fixing clay tiles to timber battens on the wall for decoration and weather protection. Timber cladding uses molded boards fixed to battens for decoration, but requires more maintenance. Stone cladding like marble and granite provides excellent durability but is more expensive to install due to cutting and polishing costs. It also requires strong backing and fixing bars due to its weight.
Facade Cladding Systems is a leading organization established in 1999 that offers various facade and cladding services including structural glazing, ACP cladding, glass doors and windows, and spider glazing. The company uses experienced architects and consultants to properly plan and execute projects as per client specifications. It has completed many projects for commercial and residential sectors across India under the leadership of owner Mr. Shailendra Singh.
Types of Cladding Material For your HomeJohn Marian
If you want to improve or renovate your old house then allow Homeclad to carry out the complete home improvement process in an effective manner. Here we give you an overview about different types of cladding materials which are suitable for your home.
This document provides information on various building construction materials and techniques. It discusses surface finishes like plasters and paints that protect surfaces and provide decoration. It describes cladding materials like wood, stone, vinyl and metal that provide weather protection, aesthetics and insulation. It also details pointing and jointing techniques for brickwork and discusses plastering methods using materials like lime, cement and mud in single or multiple coats. Tools used for tasks like pointing, jointing and plastering are also outlined.
The document discusses two building projects that utilized innovative structural and enclosure systems:
1) The Lowara Office Building designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop features a glass curtain wall facade.
2) Hall 26 at the Hanover Expo designed by Herzog and Partner and Schlaich Bergermann and Partner is a large span structure covered by a lightweight roof system allowing for natural ventilation and daylight while restricting direct sunlight. It uses renewable materials and conserves energy.
This document discusses the cladding of buildings. It defines cladding as an external finish applied to improve a building's appearance and resistance to weathering. The main purposes of cladding are to separate the indoor and outdoor environments and maintain suitable indoor conditions by preventing water, air, light, noise, and fire penetration. It also discusses the types of cladding units and how cladding must withstand wind loads and structural movements without cracking.
This document discusses different types of small unit cladding that can be fixed to structural backing walls. It describes tile, timber, and stone cladding. Tile cladding involves fixing clay tiles to timber battens on the wall for decoration and weather protection. Timber cladding uses molded boards fixed to battens for decoration, but requires more maintenance. Stone cladding like marble and granite provides excellent durability but is more expensive to install due to cutting and polishing costs. It also requires strong backing and fixing bars due to its weight.
Facade Cladding Systems is a leading organization established in 1999 that offers various facade and cladding services including structural glazing, ACP cladding, glass doors and windows, and spider glazing. The company uses experienced architects and consultants to properly plan and execute projects as per client specifications. It has completed many projects for commercial and residential sectors across India under the leadership of owner Mr. Shailendra Singh.
Types of Cladding Material For your HomeJohn Marian
If you want to improve or renovate your old house then allow Homeclad to carry out the complete home improvement process in an effective manner. Here we give you an overview about different types of cladding materials which are suitable for your home.
This document provides information on various building construction materials and techniques. It discusses surface finishes like plasters and paints that protect surfaces and provide decoration. It describes cladding materials like wood, stone, vinyl and metal that provide weather protection, aesthetics and insulation. It also details pointing and jointing techniques for brickwork and discusses plastering methods using materials like lime, cement and mud in single or multiple coats. Tools used for tasks like pointing, jointing and plastering are also outlined.
Architects Datafile (ADF) Magazine 2015
"There is an urgent need for facade engineers to be involved earlier in the design and development of projects..."
On Page 19 you can read accounts from leading facade specialists including Wintech about what they would like architects and specifiers to know about.
Dow Corning & Wintech Riverlight Case StudyWintech
Wintech collaborate with Dow Corning on the Riverlight development in Battersea, London and "the use of clever and appropriate innovation for the construction of smarter buildings"
This article discusses how cities of the future will function more like natural ecosystems by becoming more self-sufficient in their energy, water, food, and materials production. It notes that for centuries cities have extracted and consumed natural resources without regard for impacts, but that leading cities are now focused on creating their own resource supplies and developing ecological functions. Recent innovations like green buildings that produce their own energy and water on-site have pushed this transition, and entire eco-districts are now being planned that optimize resource systems at a larger scale. The article argues that with these trends, cities may one day support a global population of 9 billion people in a sustainable way.
Wintech provide Dow Corning with Facade ConsultancyWintech
Dow Corning's new Solar Energy Exploration and Development Center (SEED) in Seneffe, Belgium showcases several of the company's silicon-based technologies to maximize energy efficiency. These technologies enabled a building envelope with structural glazing, weather sealing, triple glazing, high performance insulation, solar panels, and building integrated photovoltaics. Vacuum insulation panels were installed within the ventilated rainscreen facade to meet goals for overall energy efficiency. Thermal studies showed the panels reduced required insulation thickness from 240mm to 40mm while avoiding thermal bridges from standard aluminum fixings.
Wintech - Facade Engineering Consultancy and DesignWintech
Wintech have a large project-related façade design resource and produce effectively working façade designs for many important worldwide projects, fully detailed down to the nuts and bolts.
With many years of industry based experience all within one company, Wintech facilitates the façade design detailing, system design, thermal modelling and structural design of major projects, utilising a unique range of façade engineering skills from a single location.
Wintech is a leading facade consultancy that provides strategic advice for complex geometric facade designs on modern architecture. They utilize optimization algorithms to efficiently panelize complex surfaces and parametric design tools to realize architectural visions. Their multidisciplinary engineering team ensures facades meet structural, thermal, acoustic, and manufacturing requirements. A case study describes their solution for the curved towers of Villamar in Bahrain, rationalizing the panelization and developing a bespoke unitized system.
Wintech provides facade forensics services including surveys, investigations, and remediation of existing facades. Their services include dilapidation surveys, facade investigations, condition surveys, failure investigations, remediation schemes, design solutions, and warranty backed remediation design. They have experience surveying and designing remediation for major international projects. Their consultants are qualified with Masters degrees in Facade Engineering and membership in relevant professional societies.
The CBC machine is a common diagnostic tool used by doctors to measure a patient's red blood cell count, white blood cell count and platelet count. The machine uses a small sample of the patient's blood, which is then placed into special tubes and analyzed. The results of the analysis are then displayed on a screen for the doctor to review. The CBC machine is an important tool for diagnosing various conditions, such as anemia, infection and leukemia. It can also help to monitor a patient's response to treatment.
Embedded machine learning-based road conditions and driving behavior monitoringIJECEIAES
Car accident rates have increased in recent years, resulting in losses in human lives, properties, and other financial costs. An embedded machine learning-based system is developed to address this critical issue. The system can monitor road conditions, detect driving patterns, and identify aggressive driving behaviors. The system is based on neural networks trained on a comprehensive dataset of driving events, driving styles, and road conditions. The system effectively detects potential risks and helps mitigate the frequency and impact of accidents. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of drivers and vehicles. Collecting data involved gathering information on three key road events: normal street and normal drive, speed bumps, circular yellow speed bumps, and three aggressive driving actions: sudden start, sudden stop, and sudden entry. The gathered data is processed and analyzed using a machine learning system designed for limited power and memory devices. The developed system resulted in 91.9% accuracy, 93.6% precision, and 92% recall. The achieved inference time on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with a 32-bit CPU running at 64 MHz is 34 ms and requires 2.6 kB peak RAM and 139.9 kB program flash memory, making it suitable for resource-constrained embedded systems.
Redefining brain tumor segmentation: a cutting-edge convolutional neural netw...IJECEIAES
Medical image analysis has witnessed significant advancements with deep learning techniques. In the domain of brain tumor segmentation, the ability to
precisely delineate tumor boundaries from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scans holds profound implications for diagnosis. This study presents an ensemble convolutional neural network (CNN) with transfer learning, integrating
the state-of-the-art Deeplabv3+ architecture with the ResNet18 backbone. The
model is rigorously trained and evaluated, exhibiting remarkable performance
metrics, including an impressive global accuracy of 99.286%, a high-class accuracy of 82.191%, a mean intersection over union (IoU) of 79.900%, a weighted
IoU of 98.620%, and a Boundary F1 (BF) score of 83.303%. Notably, a detailed comparative analysis with existing methods showcases the superiority of
our proposed model. These findings underscore the model’s competence in precise brain tumor localization, underscoring its potential to revolutionize medical
image analysis and enhance healthcare outcomes. This research paves the way
for future exploration and optimization of advanced CNN models in medical
imaging, emphasizing addressing false positives and resource efficiency.
Advanced control scheme of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbine us...IJECEIAES
This paper describes a speed control device for generating electrical energy on an electricity network based on the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used for wind power conversion systems. At first, a double-fed induction generator model was constructed. A control law is formulated to govern the flow of energy between the stator of a DFIG and the energy network using three types of controllers: proportional integral (PI), sliding mode controller (SMC) and second order sliding mode controller (SOSMC). Their different results in terms of power reference tracking, reaction to unexpected speed fluctuations, sensitivity to perturbations, and resilience against machine parameter alterations are compared. MATLAB/Simulink was used to conduct the simulations for the preceding study. Multiple simulations have shown very satisfying results, and the investigations demonstrate the efficacy and power-enhancing capabilities of the suggested control system.
Null Bangalore | Pentesters Approach to AWS IAMDivyanshu
#Abstract:
- Learn more about the real-world methods for auditing AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) as a pentester. So let us proceed with a brief discussion of IAM as well as some typical misconfigurations and their potential exploits in order to reinforce the understanding of IAM security best practices.
- Gain actionable insights into AWS IAM policies and roles, using hands on approach.
#Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of AWS services and architecture
- Familiarity with cloud security concepts
- Experience using the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI.
- For hands on lab create account on [killercoda.com](https://killercoda.com/cloudsecurity-scenario/)
# Scenario Covered:
- Basics of IAM in AWS
- Implementing IAM Policies with Least Privilege to Manage S3 Bucket
- Objective: Create an S3 bucket with least privilege IAM policy and validate access.
- Steps:
- Create S3 bucket.
- Attach least privilege policy to IAM user.
- Validate access.
- Exploiting IAM PassRole Misconfiguration
-Allows a user to pass a specific IAM role to an AWS service (ec2), typically used for service access delegation. Then exploit PassRole Misconfiguration granting unauthorized access to sensitive resources.
- Objective: Demonstrate how a PassRole misconfiguration can grant unauthorized access.
- Steps:
- Allow user to pass IAM role to EC2.
- Exploit misconfiguration for unauthorized access.
- Access sensitive resources.
- Exploiting IAM AssumeRole Misconfiguration with Overly Permissive Role
- An overly permissive IAM role configuration can lead to privilege escalation by creating a role with administrative privileges and allow a user to assume this role.
- Objective: Show how overly permissive IAM roles can lead to privilege escalation.
- Steps:
- Create role with administrative privileges.
- Allow user to assume the role.
- Perform administrative actions.
- Differentiation between PassRole vs AssumeRole
Try at [killercoda.com](https://killercoda.com/cloudsecurity-scenario/)
Discover the latest insights on Data Driven Maintenance with our comprehensive webinar presentation. Learn about traditional maintenance challenges, the right approach to utilizing data, and the benefits of adopting a Data Driven Maintenance strategy. Explore real-world examples, industry best practices, and innovative solutions like FMECA and the D3M model. This presentation, led by expert Jules Oudmans, is essential for asset owners looking to optimize their maintenance processes and leverage digital technologies for improved efficiency and performance. Download now to stay ahead in the evolving maintenance landscape.
Architects Datafile (ADF) Magazine 2015
"There is an urgent need for facade engineers to be involved earlier in the design and development of projects..."
On Page 19 you can read accounts from leading facade specialists including Wintech about what they would like architects and specifiers to know about.
Dow Corning & Wintech Riverlight Case StudyWintech
Wintech collaborate with Dow Corning on the Riverlight development in Battersea, London and "the use of clever and appropriate innovation for the construction of smarter buildings"
This article discusses how cities of the future will function more like natural ecosystems by becoming more self-sufficient in their energy, water, food, and materials production. It notes that for centuries cities have extracted and consumed natural resources without regard for impacts, but that leading cities are now focused on creating their own resource supplies and developing ecological functions. Recent innovations like green buildings that produce their own energy and water on-site have pushed this transition, and entire eco-districts are now being planned that optimize resource systems at a larger scale. The article argues that with these trends, cities may one day support a global population of 9 billion people in a sustainable way.
Wintech provide Dow Corning with Facade ConsultancyWintech
Dow Corning's new Solar Energy Exploration and Development Center (SEED) in Seneffe, Belgium showcases several of the company's silicon-based technologies to maximize energy efficiency. These technologies enabled a building envelope with structural glazing, weather sealing, triple glazing, high performance insulation, solar panels, and building integrated photovoltaics. Vacuum insulation panels were installed within the ventilated rainscreen facade to meet goals for overall energy efficiency. Thermal studies showed the panels reduced required insulation thickness from 240mm to 40mm while avoiding thermal bridges from standard aluminum fixings.
Wintech - Facade Engineering Consultancy and DesignWintech
Wintech have a large project-related façade design resource and produce effectively working façade designs for many important worldwide projects, fully detailed down to the nuts and bolts.
With many years of industry based experience all within one company, Wintech facilitates the façade design detailing, system design, thermal modelling and structural design of major projects, utilising a unique range of façade engineering skills from a single location.
Wintech is a leading facade consultancy that provides strategic advice for complex geometric facade designs on modern architecture. They utilize optimization algorithms to efficiently panelize complex surfaces and parametric design tools to realize architectural visions. Their multidisciplinary engineering team ensures facades meet structural, thermal, acoustic, and manufacturing requirements. A case study describes their solution for the curved towers of Villamar in Bahrain, rationalizing the panelization and developing a bespoke unitized system.
Wintech provides facade forensics services including surveys, investigations, and remediation of existing facades. Their services include dilapidation surveys, facade investigations, condition surveys, failure investigations, remediation schemes, design solutions, and warranty backed remediation design. They have experience surveying and designing remediation for major international projects. Their consultants are qualified with Masters degrees in Facade Engineering and membership in relevant professional societies.
The CBC machine is a common diagnostic tool used by doctors to measure a patient's red blood cell count, white blood cell count and platelet count. The machine uses a small sample of the patient's blood, which is then placed into special tubes and analyzed. The results of the analysis are then displayed on a screen for the doctor to review. The CBC machine is an important tool for diagnosing various conditions, such as anemia, infection and leukemia. It can also help to monitor a patient's response to treatment.
Embedded machine learning-based road conditions and driving behavior monitoringIJECEIAES
Car accident rates have increased in recent years, resulting in losses in human lives, properties, and other financial costs. An embedded machine learning-based system is developed to address this critical issue. The system can monitor road conditions, detect driving patterns, and identify aggressive driving behaviors. The system is based on neural networks trained on a comprehensive dataset of driving events, driving styles, and road conditions. The system effectively detects potential risks and helps mitigate the frequency and impact of accidents. The primary goal is to ensure the safety of drivers and vehicles. Collecting data involved gathering information on three key road events: normal street and normal drive, speed bumps, circular yellow speed bumps, and three aggressive driving actions: sudden start, sudden stop, and sudden entry. The gathered data is processed and analyzed using a machine learning system designed for limited power and memory devices. The developed system resulted in 91.9% accuracy, 93.6% precision, and 92% recall. The achieved inference time on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense with a 32-bit CPU running at 64 MHz is 34 ms and requires 2.6 kB peak RAM and 139.9 kB program flash memory, making it suitable for resource-constrained embedded systems.
Redefining brain tumor segmentation: a cutting-edge convolutional neural netw...IJECEIAES
Medical image analysis has witnessed significant advancements with deep learning techniques. In the domain of brain tumor segmentation, the ability to
precisely delineate tumor boundaries from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
scans holds profound implications for diagnosis. This study presents an ensemble convolutional neural network (CNN) with transfer learning, integrating
the state-of-the-art Deeplabv3+ architecture with the ResNet18 backbone. The
model is rigorously trained and evaluated, exhibiting remarkable performance
metrics, including an impressive global accuracy of 99.286%, a high-class accuracy of 82.191%, a mean intersection over union (IoU) of 79.900%, a weighted
IoU of 98.620%, and a Boundary F1 (BF) score of 83.303%. Notably, a detailed comparative analysis with existing methods showcases the superiority of
our proposed model. These findings underscore the model’s competence in precise brain tumor localization, underscoring its potential to revolutionize medical
image analysis and enhance healthcare outcomes. This research paves the way
for future exploration and optimization of advanced CNN models in medical
imaging, emphasizing addressing false positives and resource efficiency.
Advanced control scheme of doubly fed induction generator for wind turbine us...IJECEIAES
This paper describes a speed control device for generating electrical energy on an electricity network based on the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used for wind power conversion systems. At first, a double-fed induction generator model was constructed. A control law is formulated to govern the flow of energy between the stator of a DFIG and the energy network using three types of controllers: proportional integral (PI), sliding mode controller (SMC) and second order sliding mode controller (SOSMC). Their different results in terms of power reference tracking, reaction to unexpected speed fluctuations, sensitivity to perturbations, and resilience against machine parameter alterations are compared. MATLAB/Simulink was used to conduct the simulations for the preceding study. Multiple simulations have shown very satisfying results, and the investigations demonstrate the efficacy and power-enhancing capabilities of the suggested control system.
Null Bangalore | Pentesters Approach to AWS IAMDivyanshu
#Abstract:
- Learn more about the real-world methods for auditing AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) as a pentester. So let us proceed with a brief discussion of IAM as well as some typical misconfigurations and their potential exploits in order to reinforce the understanding of IAM security best practices.
- Gain actionable insights into AWS IAM policies and roles, using hands on approach.
#Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of AWS services and architecture
- Familiarity with cloud security concepts
- Experience using the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI.
- For hands on lab create account on [killercoda.com](https://killercoda.com/cloudsecurity-scenario/)
# Scenario Covered:
- Basics of IAM in AWS
- Implementing IAM Policies with Least Privilege to Manage S3 Bucket
- Objective: Create an S3 bucket with least privilege IAM policy and validate access.
- Steps:
- Create S3 bucket.
- Attach least privilege policy to IAM user.
- Validate access.
- Exploiting IAM PassRole Misconfiguration
-Allows a user to pass a specific IAM role to an AWS service (ec2), typically used for service access delegation. Then exploit PassRole Misconfiguration granting unauthorized access to sensitive resources.
- Objective: Demonstrate how a PassRole misconfiguration can grant unauthorized access.
- Steps:
- Allow user to pass IAM role to EC2.
- Exploit misconfiguration for unauthorized access.
- Access sensitive resources.
- Exploiting IAM AssumeRole Misconfiguration with Overly Permissive Role
- An overly permissive IAM role configuration can lead to privilege escalation by creating a role with administrative privileges and allow a user to assume this role.
- Objective: Show how overly permissive IAM roles can lead to privilege escalation.
- Steps:
- Create role with administrative privileges.
- Allow user to assume the role.
- Perform administrative actions.
- Differentiation between PassRole vs AssumeRole
Try at [killercoda.com](https://killercoda.com/cloudsecurity-scenario/)
Discover the latest insights on Data Driven Maintenance with our comprehensive webinar presentation. Learn about traditional maintenance challenges, the right approach to utilizing data, and the benefits of adopting a Data Driven Maintenance strategy. Explore real-world examples, industry best practices, and innovative solutions like FMECA and the D3M model. This presentation, led by expert Jules Oudmans, is essential for asset owners looking to optimize their maintenance processes and leverage digital technologies for improved efficiency and performance. Download now to stay ahead in the evolving maintenance landscape.
artificial intelligence and data science contents.pptxGauravCar
What is artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks that are commonly associated with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason.
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