Thesis (B.S.)--University of Missouri, School of Mines and Metallurgy, 1915. / The entire thesis text is included in file. Typescript. Illustrated by author. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed April 23, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 2-3).

Inaug.-diss.--Berlin. / Lebenslauf. Published in full, with illustrations, by E. Meyer, Berlin, 1907 (ix, [2], 161, [1] p.).

Thesis. 1979. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 220-224. / by Victor W. Karen. / M.Arch

Thesis (MTech. degree in Architecture: Professional)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2011. / On the 3rd of March 1997 the municipal government complex, Munitoria, was partially destroyed by a fire in which the western wing was completely destroyed and the south west corner building was left unusable and unsightly. The municipality has since then relocated its staff to thirteen separate buildings within the Pretoria CBD. This thesis is the design of a new headquarters for the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality on the site of the original Munitoria complex. The reinsertion of government institution is proposed as a catalyst for urban regeneration within the area.

Les collectivités territoriales sont en pleine mutation. L’Etat se désengage de plus en plus, avec des échéances inscrites, et de fait les Elus locaux cantonnés, jusqu’ici à des fonctions régaliennes, sont contraints à la mutation avec de nouvelles compétences multiples à gérer, pointues, à fortes responsabilités et implications. L’Elu du 21éme siècle est contraint, pour se maintenir, d’agir comme un chef d’entreprise, et de ce fait, de s’entourer de compétences nouvelles, stratégiques et à spectre multiple pour l’assister, le conseiller, l’orienter, lui proposer des alternatives pour assumer l’étendue de ses missions. Le développement durable, les énergies renouvelables, la maitrise des dépenses énergétiques, les échéances du Grenelle, les mises en conformité des bâtiments communaux, sont autant d’enjeux pour le Maire, ce qui l’oblige mais cependant qu’il ne peut assumer sans expertises spécifiques. Pour cela, 2 alternatives s’offrent à lui : - Sous-traiter ces expertises à l’extérieur, avec leurs avantages (coût à la Mission avec surcoût final, flexibilité) et leurs contraintes (manque de réactivité, peu ou pas de vision globale) - En interne, avec création de Pôles ou Directions dédiés, avec des experts locaux, à proximité, moins onéreux, noyés dans un budget fonctionnement et surtout flexible. L’ingénieur, dès lors peut se concrétiser dans son métier, en Collectivités Territoriales, exercer ainsi comme dans le Privé, user de son ingéniosité, de sa compétence, de sa force de proposition, de sa veille pour faciliter la visibilité au Maire, dans ses choix, à différentes phases d’avancement d’un projet commandé par ses soins, et lui permettre de prendre la bonne décision en phase avec ses engagements électoraux. Ce contexte, brièvement décrit, positionne la question de fond de mon travail de recherche, à savoir, quels sont les outils scientifiques et techniques les plus adaptés à la demande des décideurs des collectivités territoriales. Cela sous- entend de s’intéresser aux processus de conduite d’opération depuis l’intention de construire jusqu’à la fin de vie des ouvrages en passant par leur exploitation, en caractérisant les étapes de prise de décision et en portant une attention particulière aux incertitudes qui étayent les différentes étapes de la vie d’un ouvrage et qui conditionneront ces décisions. / Local governments are changing. The state is withdrawing more and more, with maturities listed, and in fact local elected confined so far to sovereign functions, are forced to change with new skills to manage multiple, pointed, with high responsibility and implications. The Elected Representatives of the 21st century is forced to stay, to act as an entrepreneur, and therefore, to surround themselves with new skills, strategic and multifocal spectrum to assist, counsel, the orient, offer alternatives to fulfill the scope of its missions. Sustainable development, renewable energy, energy expenditure control, timing of Grenelle, housing compliance of municipal buildings, are all issues for the mayor, which forces him yet he can not take specific expertise. For this, two alternatives open to him: - Outsourcing this expertise on the outside, with their advantages (cost to the Mission with final additional cost, flexibility) and constraints (lack of responsiveness, little or no global vision ) - In-house, with the creation of clusters or dedicated Directions, with local experts, near, cheapest, drowned in an operating budget and above all flexible. The engineer, therefore can be achieved in his profession, in Local Authorities, as well as engage in private, to use his ingenuity, skill, strength of proposal, its day to facilitate the visibility to the Mayor in choices at different stages of completion of a project commissioned by him and allow him to make the right decision in keeping with its election commitments. This context, briefly described, sets the basic question of my research, namely, what are the scientific tools and techniques best suited to the request of local government decision makers. This implies an interest in the process of conducting operation since plans to build the rest of life works through their use in characterizing the stages of decision making and focusing in particular uncertainties that support the different stages of life and a book that will shape these decisions.

A multipurpose facility for the village of Novaggio, Switzerland was designed to provide the following: ∙ space for a primary school for grades one through five ∙ a multi-use community space ∙ a storage area for the regional fire department ∙ a storage area for the municipality A linear organization was chosen to create an easily organized and economically constructed building which might be easily expanded in the future. A low profile was desired and was achieved by limiting construction to one story. Indigenous materials and forms were utilized to create a minimal impact on the extant character of the town. / Master of Architecture

This thesis addressed the need for improved analysis and interpretation of primary meter half-hourly energy consumption data. The current work offers a novel benchmarking technique that was tested for 6 types of municipal buildings. This approach is different from conventional annual benchmarking mainly because it uses electricity and gas data in half-hourly periods, together with outside temperature data. A survey to European local authorities’ metering and monitoring practices was conducted in order to assess municipal energy managers' current procedures and needs in terms of data analysis to assess building energy performance and to identify potential energy saving opportunities. The benchmarking approach was developed considering the energy managers’ needs, but also the state-of the art in terms of building energy monitoring techniques, particularly building energy signatures, and the analysis techniques used on electricity grid demand forecasting. The benchmarking approach is based on the use of a metric composed of several indicators that are related to the load demand shape profile and the building energy signature. The comparison of indicators for buildings of the same type using standard scores identifies uncommon load demand profile characteristics and/or gas dependency on outside temperature in specific buildings. The metric is able to support the identification of potential energy wastage, which is linked to the detection of opportunities to save energy. The benchmarking technique was tested in 81 municipal building owned by Leicester City Council. This methodology can be applied to any non-domestic building equipped with primary meters for registering half-hourly electricity and gas consumption. In theory, this approach can also be applied to residential buildings, and to other short time series data types, for example quarter-hourly or 10 minutes interval data. The main contribution of this thesis is to improve the objectivity of building primary meter half-hourly electricity and gas consumption data analysis and interpretation by using quantitative parameters, instead of subjective visualisation techniques. The interpretation of building consumption data in short time series periods can now be streamlined, automated and perhaps incorporated in existing energy analysis software. This thesis raises questions that can lead to future research projects aiming to improve the metric and also to enlarge the scope of its application to national and European scale, to other building types and to other utilities.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)