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The Effect of the Artificial Ground on Building Thermal Environment (인공지반이 건물 열환경에 미치는 효과에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Hyo-Keun;Lim, Jong-Yeon;Ryu, Min-Kyung;Song, Doo-Sam
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.170-175
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    • 2009
  • Apartment housing block has been spreaded according to rapid economic development and urbanization in Korea. A parking lot is located at underground, artificial ground is inevitably created in apartment housing block. Artificial ground creates different thermal environment compared to natural ground, because the composition and coverage of artificial ground are diverse. In this study, the effect of the artificial ground on building thermal environment will be disscussed by simulation. Considering the result of simulation, surface albedo is more important for building energy performance. A purpose of this study is to examine how the characteristic of surface effect to thermal environment, and to develop design method for sustainable outdoor space.

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A Study of the Pre-Retirees' Perception on Housing Environment - The Case of Daegu - (예비 은퇴자의 주거환경 의식에 관한 연구 - 대구시민을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Han-Soo;Park, Hye-Ji
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2014
  • Korea is quickly transforming into an aging society. As a reaction to the accelerated aging society in recent years, there is a growing need to introduce sustainable housing policies and strategies for aging society. The main purpose of this study is to explore where people want to live after retirement. Especially, this study focuses on the residential environment such as housing types, residential location, and living environment. The main findings are as follows. First, people preferred living in a sububan-style housing in the suburban or rural areas to living in a city-style housing in the urban areas. Second, people have a strong preference for the importance of convenience in using natural environment, medical service, and cultural facilities. Third, the family life style has been changed from children-oriented life style to couple-oriented life style by showing that people like to stay with a spouse rather than with their children after retirement.

The Relationship between Tourist태s Environment Consciousness and Ecotourism Attitude (관광객의 환경의식이 생태관광태도에 미치는 영향)

  • Jo, Jin Hui;Kim, Su Bong;Kim, Yong Beom
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2004
  • Regarding to the ecotourism for environmental conservation, tourists's consciousness and attitude on environment should be dealt with importantly more than the mass tourism. The purpose of this study is to identify the effects of the tourist's environmental consciousness on the ecotourism attitudes. As a result, it was analysed that the more people had interested in environmental problems, positive activities in the environment, the more people had the ecotourism attitudes. This suggested that for development of the ecotourism, it were needed to change tourist's attitude to friendly environment, to make higher consciousness about environmental conservation.

A Study on the Planning Factor Evaluation of Environmental Friendiness by Apartment Residents (공동주택단지 거주자의 환경친화 계획요소 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ick-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to extract the main planning factors of environment friendly apartment complex through the residents' evaluations on importance levels of the planning factors. The major findings of this study are as follows; 1) Understanding on the environment friendly apartment complex is lacking, and the satisfaction level on the living space as the environment friendly apartment is very low. 2) The residents in the low-storied apartments want the introduction of facilities for energy saving, and those in the high-storied apartments demand to develop to green area. 3) In evaluating the importance of the environment friendly planning factors and the image of the apartment complex, the guarantee of green area and the development of water friendly space are closely related with the image of the apartment complex. So, they are the planning factors that should be handled importantly.

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Effect of Environment-conscious Procurement Logistics Activity and Logistics Strategy on Logistics Performance (조달물류에서 환경친화적 활동이 조달물류 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Seog-Ha;Lee, Sung-Ho;Kim, Che-Soong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2007
  • For a sustainable development, the resources circulation system should be established and an environment-conscious activities are required at the same time. These activities should be also implemented in logistics area. Especially, green procurement activities in inbound logistics is recognized as a very important factors in the early phase of an environment-conscious activities. In this paper, we are to suggest the direction through statistical analysis of effects, and cause of influences of environmental procurement logistics activities on logistics performance by environmental logistics strategy and by the size of enterprises, and by Environmental Management System. This study was conducted with the subjects of manufacturing enterprises with concurrent reviews of literature and statistical analysis, and the meaning of this study would be the analysis of the influencers of environment-conscious procurement logistics activities on logistics performance different from existing logistics studies.

A comparative analysis study of Green Building Certification Criteria - Focusing on the site and environment (친환경건축물인증제도의 외부환경요소적용에 관한 연구 - Site/environment를 중심으로)

  • Park, Chan-Hyuk;Oh, Myung-Won;Kim, Byung-Sun
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.324-329
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    • 2009
  • This paper is to provide problems and changes to be don Korean Green Building Certification Criteria, which are similar to American Leed certification and Japanese CASBBE, reorganizing and comparing those systems with domestic system. Normally, those certification program is very similar, but have some differences in the view to the site and environment chapter. That difference will be change to the right way that protect the nature states of the environment. Therefore, this study is going to base data to first step of the process for modify the differency problem.

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Pasture estimating with climate change over Mongolia using climate and NOAA/NDVI data

  • Erdenetuya, M.;Khudulmur, S.;Bolortsetseg, B.;Natsagdorj, L.;Batima, P.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.120-122
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    • 2003
  • Geographical position and associated climatic influences can be a negative environmental condition that affects sustainable use of land resources, especially pastoral livestock production. Vegetation condition of the country is sensitively changes upon climate changes and human impacts. Within last 60 years data the annual air temperature has increased in 1.66 degrees in average and the total precipitation amount had almost no change. The main goal of this work is to relate climate change within last 20 years with pasture condition, estimated by NOAA/NDVI data set.

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Evaluation on Residential Environment of Purchased Rental Housing (다가구 매입임대주택의 주거환경 실태 평가)

  • Cho, Seung-Yeoun;Kwon, Hyuk-sam;Hyun, Chang-guk;Cheong, Jae-Jin
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.3-10
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate the residential environment by indicators of internal and external conditions of Purchased Rental Housings (PRH). In this study, we conducted a field survey on 200 units of PRH to evaluate the residental environment located in Seoul, Incehon, Kyounggi, Daejeon, Busan and Daegu. As a result, the residential environment of PRH is managed as above average at most indicators. Partly parking areas and fire-fighting facilities are need to be improved for safety and health. It is considered that the political goal of PRH, such as housing safety and stability for low-income class, is achieved by decent housings and appropriate maintenance. However, it is still necessary to improve its management system for sustainable and safe residential environments.

Efficiency Analysis of the HVAC system in the School Facilities Using the Geothermal Energy -Focused on the energy consumption- (지열을 이용한 학교시설의 냉·난방시스템 효율성분석 -에너지 소비량을 중심으로-)

  • Park, Dong-Soon;Lee, Jae-Rim
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.25-52
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    • 2007
  • This paper is focused on the economical efficiency of the geothermal heat pump system in school. As the importance of problems of environment and energy becomes larger, the development and distribution of energy-saving technology in the whole nation has become influential. This paper is intended, targeting on school buildings scattered all over the country, to evaluate the introduction and possibility of a terrestrial heat system which is in the first stage of introduction in the country, through energy consumption and efficiency in case where a terrestrial heat system is introduced. To do that, the author performed a qualitative analysis of the heat pump system using various terrestrial heat energy and the system introduced to existing school buildings and, through the analysis, made tentative evaluation on the most environment-friendly and energy saving type system. Also, the author performed simulation analysis using a currently typical school building standard and, on the basis of this result, conducted efficiency analysis of various heat pump systems. The conclusion according to synthetical analysis & evaluation can be summarized as follows. In case a heat pump system is introduced to a school building, it was deemed the investment in the early stage would increase, but the investment could be collected within 5~6 years through reduction of large operation expenses. Also, it was analyzed in case of terrestrial heat contracted heat mode using midnight electric power among heat pump systems, not only early investment but also operation expenses could be reduced to a great extent. Accordingly in case the system using terrestrial heat energy is applied to the school buildings that are to be newly built or repaired in the future, it will provide an object-lesson to students as well as contributing to energy saving.

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A Study on the size of the school rationalization orientation considering the local characteristics (지역특성을 고려한 학교규모 적정화 방향 설정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Min;Cho, Chang-Hee
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.40-48
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    • 2016
  • School appropriate scale refers to the size of the school to minimize students' educational deficits and ensure an appropriate level of students, the number of classes, class size, etc., and maximize educational effects. Difficult set of absolute standards appropriate scale school, contemporary social situations and educational effects, and seek a comprehensive and reasonable direction, considering this is required. School appropriate scale it is preferable to consider the effect of conditions in areas such as education, curriculum, but it is common to set the range in terms of school operational effectiveness, and efficiency of education funding, school environment. So the concept of the appropriate scale including the school's status changes associated with school size, is seeking a new direction is needed so that the school environment, etc. are considered.