The rising global demand for energy has triggered emphasis on conservation of energy. Buildings are one of the important energy consuming sectors. Passive solar architecture encompasses a wide range of strategies and options resulting in energy efficient building design and increased occupant's...

This paper describes a knowledge-based tool being developed to study the selection of a sequence of transformations that if applied to a sequential program will result in an efficient parallel schedule. This work concentrates on parallelization of scientific programs. We expect that the...

Energy generation by fossil fuel contributes to carbon emission to the atmosphere which is a major threat to global environment. Measuring energy consumption in building, accounting related carbon emission and selecting low embodied energy (EE) material by performing life-cycle analysis gives a...