A Hospital Plan for the Hillsborough-Pinellas Area Florida

A Study of the Area\u27s Hospital Needs and a Proposed Program of Development October, 195

Land Use Framework and Concept for a Luxury Waterfront Hotel on Central Pier, Hakata Bay, Fukuoka City

This report presents a concept for the development of a luxury 425 room hotel in Fukuoka City to be located on filled ground at the Central Pier on Hakata Bay. The total site assembled for the development is 1.7 hectares. Report includes the following sections: 1) Introduction, 2) Land use framework, 3) Concept description for the development components, 4) Program detail for public area facilities, 5) Program detail for hotel support and service areas, 6) Space allocation for the project components

A scalable parallel finite element framework for growing geometries. Application to metal additive manufacturing

This work introduces an innovative parallel, fully-distributed finite element framework for growing geometries and its application to metal additive manufacturing. It is well-known that virtual part design and qualification in additive manufacturing requires highly-accurate multiscale and multiphysics analyses. Only high performance computing tools are able to handle such complexity in time frames compatible with time-to-market. However, efficiency, without loss of accuracy, has rarely held the centre stage in the numerical community. Here, in contrast, the framework is designed to adequately exploit the resources of high-end distributed-memory machines. It is grounded on three building blocks: (1) Hierarchical adaptive mesh refinement with octree-based meshes; (2) a parallel strategy to model the growth of the geometry; (3) state-of-the-art parallel iterative linear solvers. Computational experiments consider the heat transfer analysis at the part scale of the printing process by powder-bed technologies. After verification against a 3D benchmark, a strong-scaling analysis assesses performance and identifies major sources of parallel overhead. A third numerical example examines the efficiency and robustness of (2) in a curved 3D shape. Unprecedented parallelism and scalability were achieved in this work. Hence, this framework contributes to take on higher complexity and/or accuracy, not only of part-scale simulations of metal or polymer additive manufacturing, but also in welding, sedimentation, atherosclerosis, or any other physical problem where the physical domain of interest grows in time

The two-echelon capacitated vehicle routing problem: models and math-based heuristics

Multiechelon distribution systems are quite common in supply-chain and logistics. They are used by public administrations in their transportation and traffic planning strategies, as well as by companies, to model own distribution systems. In the literature, most of the studies address issues relating to the movement of flows throughout the system from their origins to their final destinations. Another recent trend is to focus on the management of the vehicle fleets required to provide transportation among different echelons. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it introduces the family of two-echelon vehicle routing problems (VRPs), a term that broadly covers such settings, where the delivery from one or more depots to customers is managed by routing and consolidating freight through intermediate depots. Second, it considers in detail the basic version of two-echelon VRPs, the two-echelon capacitated VRP, which is an extension of the classical VRP in which the delivery is compulsorily delivered through intermediate depots, named satellites. A mathematical model for two-echelon capacitated VRP, some valid inequalities, and two math-heuristics based on the model are presented. Computational results of up to 50 customers and four satellites show the effectiveness of the methods developed

Oita Sunrise City Resort Community Land Use Concept and Management Strategy

The client’s objective is to develop an urban resort concept containing residences, a spa, hotel, marina, and village components on the Oita Prefecture. This final report contains eight sections: 1) introduction, 2) market overview, 3) site analysis, 4) preliminary development program, 5) selected scenario for development, 6) concept plan showing interrelationship of all project elements and development phasing, 7) written documentation of the rationale behind the development concept and a related strategy for managing the properties, 8) final position on phasing and economic projections, including a cash flow model of the project over 10 years

Ingham County Economic Development Policy Assessment and Organization Implementation

This report provides an independent assessment of Ingham County\u27s current economic development policy and offers recommendations on how to make the county\u27s role in economic development more effective

General Aviation Trends in the European Market Memorandum Report

In 1969, as western Europe was becoming a common market, significant economic growth was projected. His Highness, The Aga Kahn requested that Economics Research Associates (ERA) perform a memorandum report and forecast the trends for private aviation potentials in Europe over the decade of the 1970s. The resulting report by ERA reviews the history of European aviation, current and future economic trends in the common European market area as these pertain to the growth of private aviation, advantages and disadvantages involved in noncommercial flying, and future trends in private aviation. Data was gathered from such sources as aviation publications, interviews with persons connected with private aviation, and market studies and projections of commercial organizations. The report includes the following sections: 1) introduction, 2) summary and conclusions, 3) the western European economy, 4) general aviation, 5) general aviation and future trends in aviation design, 6) impact of general aviation on tourism. The report includes four tables