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Dubai Smart Building Assessment System
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-06)
Guidelines and ranking criteria are very important to evaluate buildings. In order to evaluate and define a building as a smart building there should be a criteria or guideline base. In other words an assessment checklist ...
Dubai, a disability friendly city in the making An investigative study
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-09)
Dubai claims that by 2020 it will be a people with disability friendly city. It was important to examine the following aspects; first the extent to which the city serves people with disability at this crucial stage, second ...
Pushing an existing villa in Dubai to nearly Zero Energy Building passing through AL SA’AFAT rating system
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-05)
Our surrounding environment is effected significantly due to the buildings impact which is a result of excessive energy consumption. Residential and commercial buildings use about 40% of the world total primary energy ...
Achieving sustainable regeneration and walkable communities through investigation of different urban configurations in Dubai, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-10)
One of the major challenges facing urban planners in Dubai is the rapid growth of population. New developments were constructed within the last few years which caused the urban sprawl to reach the edge of the city. In this ...
A Study on User Acceptance Factors of ERP Systems in Dubai Business Environment
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-02)
New applications are implemented every day in companies all over the Globe. The majority of these applications do not deliver the promised return on investment due to low user adoption rates. This research is targeting the ...
Using Text Mining and Clustering Techniques on Tweets to Discover Trending Topics in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-05)
Twitter micro-blogging website is a hot and emerging area of research recently, users on Twitter post millions of tweets every day from all over the world, it is very difficult and challenging task to keep track of messages ...
Using Data Mining and Text Mining Techniques in Predicting the Price of Real Estate Properties in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-05)
Data mining is defined as the discovery of previously unknown patterns and relationships between stored data and represents the interesting information in understandable format. On the other hand, text mining is also looks ...
The Effects of Data Mining on Small Businesses in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-09)
This study was conducted with the aim of finding the benefits of data mining on small businesses and specifically on the real estate sector in Dubai, and the criteria to be used when evaluating and selecting the best tools ...
Critical Evaluation of Psychological Adaptation as a Factor for Determining Thermal Comfort in Public Outdoor Spaces in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-05)
High degrees of competition and globalization in fact made it imperative for nations to adopt systematic methods at the various stages of developmental planning in order to create or improve the designs for the benefit of ...
Urban Heat Islands: Potential effect of organic and structured urban configurations on temperature variations in Dubai, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-05)
Urban heat islands are phenomena that occur coupled with rapid urban developments. The study was carried out to show the effect of organic and structured urban configurations on temperature variations throughout the year, ...