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  • Prevention of Winter Mould Growth in Housing 
    Su, Bin (Architectural Science Review, 2006)
    This paper reports on a study that researched the possibility of building passive designs to prevent mould growth in housing in humid and mild winter climatic zones without permanent thermal active controls. This study ...
  • Hotel Design and Energy Consumption 
    Su, Bin (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2012)
    A hotel mainly uses its energy on water heating, space heating, refrigeration, space cooling, cooking, lighting and other building services. A number of 4-5 stars hotels in Auckland city are selected for this study. ...
  • The impact of passive design factors on house energy efficiency 
    Su, Bin (Architectural Science Review, 2011)
    The energy consumption of a house can be affected simultaneously by many building design factors related to its main architectural features, building elements and materials. The relationship between the building design ...
  • Auckland 2040: A resilent urban region on the water 
    Bogunovich, Dushko; Bradbury, Matthew (Planning Quarterly, 2012)
    Further spatial expansion of Auckland is inevitable, but this does not have to lead to environmental disaster and a poor quality of life. An alternative approach has been developed.
  • Use of gene expression programing for multi-model combination of rainfall-runoff models 
    Fernando, Achela; Shamseldin, Asaad; Abrahart, Robert (Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2012)
    This paper deals with the application of an innovative method for combining estimated outputs from a number of rainfall-runoff models using Gene Expression Programming (GEP) to perform symbolic regression. The GEP multi-model ...
  • Use of a supercomputer to advance parameter optimisation using genetic algorithms 
    Fernando, Achela; Jayawardena, Amithirigala (Journal of Hydroinformatics, 2007)
    Parameter optimisation is a significant but time consuming process that is inherent to conceptual hydrological models representing rainfall-runoff process. This study presents two modifications to achieve optimised results ...
  • Investigation of the internal functioning of the radial basis function neural network river flow forecasting models 
    Fernando, Achela; Shamseldin, Asaad (Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 2009)
    This paper deals with the challenging problem of hydrological interpretation of the internal functioning of ANNs by extracting knowledge from their solutions. The neural network used in this study is based on the structure ...
  • Employee preferences for work-life benefits in a large New Zealand construction company 
    Thurnell, Derek; Morrison, Emily (Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 2012)
    The construction industry is a challenging environment in which to work, with job characteristics that are linked to work-life conflict, and it is important for its future sustainability that initiatives to support employee ...
  • Creative and imaginative scholarship: Lifelong learning for an unpredictable future 
    Sharma, Rashika; Monteiro, Sylila (International Journal of Learning, 2010)
    The continued process of economic globalization challenges education as a means of achieving individual success in a constantly changing society. Education of today might be obsolete tomorrow in a technologically driven ...
  • Collaborative partnership for education for sustainability: New Zealand vocational education 
    Sharma, Rashika (International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 2011)
    This year marks the midpoint of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development but sustainability still remains a foreign concept in the New Zealand vocational and trade education curriculum. Thus research was conducted ...