The first section of this thesis describes possible energy savings in family houses. Subsequently, possible energy savings are applied to, and a system revision is presented for, an office building, along with a calculation of the return on investment for the described variant based on notice 480/2012 Sb. The final section focuses on the measurement of the indoor environment at an administrative building (CO2, air temperature, relative humidity) and their assessment according to the current legislation.

The aim of the thesis is the energy rating of buildings. The introduction included the issues of the topic, including normative and legislative regulations, process energy performance certificates along with energy audits for residential building. The object is evaluated in terms of energy, economic and environmental. Within the energy audit was designed and evaluated austerity measures.

Work includes certification procedures for experimental aeroplanes. Producer must answer individual work for right procedure certification. Office UCL give works and control production procedure aeroplane. Stationery (applications, confirmation, tec.) are part of work and is need make and feed. Part of work is VUT 001 MARABU and technical characteristics aeroplane.

This thesis deals with current topics of today, such as the issue of valuation of real estate and energy performance of buildings. The content is divided into a theoretical part where the first general and then specifically looks at the issue, and the practical part, which contains the calculations for determining the price of the selected house by direct comparison and cost methods by decree. It also specifies the energy performance of the house in its current state, and after the thermal insulation. Orientation also the return on the investments made from the perspective of the investor. The aim of this study is to assess the extent to which there is an increase in the price of a house due to the thermal insulation.

A goal of this Master's Thesis is an energy audit of an apartment building situated in Brno, the southmoravian region. The theoretical part is focused on a Czech Republic legislation, methods of an energy evaluation of houses and injurants of an internal microclimate. In the next part the main focus is on a processing of the energy audit of the apartment building. One of details of this processing is a design of precautions. From these, variants are created, focusing to choose the most economical and ecological one. The last part of this Master's Thesis is devoted to an usage of available software applications. Here are described computer programs, used for a creation of a 3D model. Also, a description of a calculation of thermal loses and the calculation of coefficients of heat transfer using a quasi-stationary technique is present. At the end a detailed description of one year simulation of the apartment building is provided.

The subject of diploma thesis is energy assessment of the building according to BREEAM methodology. First chapter overviews certification systems. The main part of the thesis consists of energy assessment of the building with application of BREEAM requirements. Specifically, building, its systems and interior environment analysis has been carried out, determination of heat transfer coefficients and production of energy performance certificate. Energy assessment of the building is carried out in accordance to BREEAM criteria. Third part contains analysis and evaluation of thermal comfort.

Within the South African context, the mining industry is a major employer and a significant contributor to the economy. Production costs are ever increasing and for this industry to survive and remain financially viable, efficient technologies are continuously being explored and implemented to ensure the industries sustainability now and in the future. In order for this to be achieved, sufficient and competent technical skills, in the form of artisans, technicians and engineers are required. The mining industry is currently experiencing a shortage of these skills. Twenty-one persons were interviewed, who are representative of three stakeholder groups: namely, regulatory bodies, educational institutions and mining companies to ascertain the challenges in terms of the technical skills and thereby, derive solutions for the industry. The data used to uncover the above was obtained using qualitative techniques applied to the three stakeholder groups. This research presents the responses of those in-depth interviews from the various stakeholders obtained over several months of research. The challenges within the industry are disclosed and practical solutions presented to mitigate those challenges.Copyright / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Småhusbranschen innefattar en del av fastighetsbranschen som i sin tur är ansvariga för 19 procent av växthusgasutsläppen i Sverige. Det har gjorts mycket forskning kring bygg- och fastighetsbranschen med fokus på flerbostadshus vilket har gjort att studier om småhusbranschen har hamnat i skymundan. Syftet med denna studie är att skapa en förståelse för hur småhusbranschen och dess aktörer arbetar mot dagens miljöproblem och för ett hållbart byggande. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ metod där intervjuer har gjorts med representanter från sex svenska företag inom småhusbranschen. Studiens tyngdpunkt ligger vid ord istället för siffror och statistik, eftersom det skapar en bättre uppfattning och upplevelse. Respondenternas svar skildrar en bild av verkligheten, vilket ger ett bättre djup i studien. För att förstå företagens hållbarhetsstrategier på ett bättre sätt har teorierna Strategic fit och differentieringsteorin tillämpats. Studien visar på att respondenterna är eniga om att det har skett en utveckling i rätt riktning inom småhusbranschens mål kring miljöfrågor. Miljömålet gällande en utsläppneutral fastighetsbransch 2045 är en bidragande faktor till att utvecklingen går i rätt riktning. Respondenterna är överens om att det finns incitament för att bygga hållbart, men inte tillräckligt starka för att övergå helt till grönt byggande. Det som krävs för grönt byggande är framförallt ekonomiska incitament för företagen eftersom kunder inom småhusbranschen sällan ställer krav på att husen ska vara certifierade. Branschen har olika åsikter om hur utsläppsneutralitet ska nås, vissa menar på att branschen tillsammans kommer lösa det, medan andra menar på att det krävs styrning från myndigheter. Vidare har det framkommit att samtliga småhusföretag arbetar utifrån en hållbarhetsstrategi på ett eller annat vis, en del arbetar utefter certifikat och andra ser till att företaget är miljömedvetna i sitt val av material och produktion. / The detached house market is part of the real estate industry, which is responsible for 19 percent of the greenhouse gas emission in Sweden. A lot of research has been made about the construction- and real estate industry with focus on apartment buildings, which has resulted in the detached house industry not getting enough attention. The purpose of this study is to establish an understanding of the detached house market and how the industry works towards environmental goals and sustainable construction. To collect primary data a qualitative approach has been applied. Six individual in-depth interviews have been conducted with participants from Swedish companies from the detached house industry. As the aim has been to collect qualitative data, focus has been on words and comprehension instead of numbers and statistics during the interviews. The respondents’ answers portray a picture of reality which provides more depth in the study. In order to better understand the companies’ sustainability strategies, the theories strategic fit and the differentiation theory have been applied. The research has found that all interview respondents agree that the progress is going in the right direction towards the detached house industry’s environmental goals. The environmental goal regarding an emissions-neutral real estate industry in 2045 is a contributing factor to the development going in the right direction. The respondents agree that there are incentives to build sustainably, but these are not strong enough to switch completely to green construction. What is required for companies to be encouraged to build green is, above all, financial incentives as customers in the detached house industry rarely demand that the houses are certified. The industry has different views on how emission neutrality in 2045 should be achieved, some believe that the industry together will solve it, while others believe that control from authorities is required. Further, it has been found that all detached house companies work on the basis of a sustainability strategy in one way or another, some work according to certificates and others ensure that the company is environmentally conscious in their choice of materials and production.

With e-governance steadily growing, citizen-to-state communication via Web sites is as well, placing enormous trust in the protocols designed to handle this communication in a secure manner. Since breaching any of the protocols enabling Web site communication could yield benefits to a malicious attacker and bring harm to end-users, the battle between hackers and information security professionals is ongoing and never-ending. This phenomenon is the main reason why it is of importance to adhere to the latest best practices established by specialized independent organizations. Best practice compliance is important for any organization, but maybe most of all for our governing authorities, which we should hold to the highest standard possible due to the nature of their societal responsibility to protect the public. This report aims to, by conducting a quantitative survey, study the Web sites of the governments and government agencies of the member states of the European Union, as well as Web sites controlled by the European Union to assess to what degree their domains comply with the current best practices of DNSSEC, HSTS, HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and certificate validation types. The findings presented in this paper show that there are significant differences in compliance level between the different parameters measured, where HTTPS best practice deployment was the highest (96%) and HSTS best practice deployment was the lowest (3%). Further, when comparing the average best practice compliance by country, Denmark and the Netherlands performed the best, while Cyprus had the lowest average.

This study examines how the mental health care institution of Sankt Sigfrid's hospital treated women discharged between 1946–1950. This study aims to understand the mental institution as an institution of power, at work through its definitions of women as sick and as healthy. The source material used in this study is case records from Sankt Sigfrid's hospital. The results from the study show that the medical certificate with the mental history and the family history of the patients were important documents for letting women enter the hospital. The family's health background documentation showed that a majority of the women had a normal childhood. The results also show that the medical certificates and the doctors' journals were embodied with negative descriptions, about patients' family- and social history, which was needed for the diagnosis and to place the individuals into a patient category. / Denna studie belyser hur institutionen Sankt Sigfrids sjukhus behandlade kvinnor som blev utskrivna åren 1946–1950. Genom att analysera sjukjournaler och vårdattester från Sankt Sigfrids sjukhus ämnar studien att förstå hur sinnessjukvården fungerade som en maktinstitution i relation till hur kvinnor ansågs sjuka respektive friska. Resultaten av denna studie visar att vårdattesten, med patientens sjukdoms- och familjehistoria var viktiga beståndsdelar för om kvinnorna fick intas eller inte. Dokumentens information om kvinnornas familjehistoria har i analysen varit viktiga då dokumenten visat att en majoritet av kvinnorna kom från normala uppväxtförhållanden. Andra resultat i studien visar att vårdattesten och läkarnas anteckningar innehöll negativa beskrivningar av patienternas familje- och sociala historia som var nödvändiga för diagnosticering och kunna placera individen i kategorin patient.