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Summary 8 FORWARDS Masa Noguchi 9 PREFACES Hasim Altan, Alberto La Tegola 10 INTRODUCTION Alberto La Tegola, Eliana de Nichilo 14 THE APULIAN WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY Massimo Crusi, Vincenzo Sinisi SESSION I - II 19 33 47 FEASIBILITY OF APPLICATION OF MODERN METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION IN IRAN Arman Hashemi, Masa Noguchi, Hasim Altan DEVELOPING ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES FROM SOCIAL ASPECTS: A CASE STUDY OF DUBAI Dania Tachouali & Hasim Altan MEASURING AND PREDICTING RESIDENTIAL MARKET ACCEPTANCE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGIES IN MELBOURNE VICTORIA Neville Hurst & Sara Wilkinson 61 CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF SUSTAINABILITY IN BUILT ENVIRONMENT PROFESSIONALS Sara Wilkinson 75 UNCERTAINTY EFFECTS OF INPUT DATA ON COST OPTIMAL NZEB PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Seyedehmamak Salavatian, Elisa Di Giuseppe & Marco D’Orazio 89 HOUSEHOLD LIFESTYLE AND ITS IMPACTS ON ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN BEIJING Nianxiong Liu, Dan Mo, Bing Chen, Muzhou Wang 99 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF GREEN MOCKUP BUILDINGS IN TROPICAL EMERGING COUNTRIES Karl Wagner, Gabriele Arese & Alberto De Marco SESSION III 111 INTEGRATING TOURISM WITH RURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN EGYPT: CASE STUDY OF FAYOUM OASIS Hagar M. Shalaby, Aia Sherif & Hasim Altan 123 TURKEY’S ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY Saja B. Nazzal & Hasim Altan 135 SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR THE PHILIPPINES BUILT ENVIRONMENT DUE TO NATURAL DISASTERS Salma Al-Zahabi & Hasim Altan 151 THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AS A MODEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SETTLEMENT SUSTAINABILITY Carla Chiarantoni & Calogero Montalbano 171 BUILDING RENOVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND URBAN REGENERATION Rosa Maria Vitrano 181 SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AND BUILDING PERFORMANCE ON CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES IN THE UAE Nadia Al Badri 193 A CLOSER LOOK AT SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES: LESSONS FROM THE UK Yumn Nanaa & Hasim Altan SESSION IV 209 VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE OF SOUTH OF IRAN, EVAZ: DEVELOPING A SOLUTION FOR FUTURE DESIGNS Fatima Mirahmadi & Hasim Altan 225 EVALUATION AND VISUALISATION OF THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF INDUSTRIALISED HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN CENTRAL MEXICO Habid Becerra-Santacruz, Panagiotis Patlakas & Hasim Altan 241 MODELLING OCCUPANT ACTIVITY PATTERNS FOR ENERGY SAVING IN BUIDINGS USING MACHINE-LEARNING APPROACHES Jose Luis Gomez Ortega & Liangxiu Han 255 AN OVERVIEW OF BUILDING SUSTAINABILITY RATING SYSTEMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Sundus L. Shareef & Hasim Altan 269 SOFTWARE FOR THE HEAT FLOW EVALUATION OF THE NEARLY-ZERO HOUSES Antonio De Vecchi, Simona Colajanni, Elsa Sanfilippo, Luigi Alessandro Licalsi, Angela D’Araio & Marianna Di Salvo 279 USING 4D BIM IN THE RETROFIT PROCESS OF SOCIAL HOUSING Fernanda J. Chaves, Patrícia Tzortzopoulos, Carlos T. Formoso & Jeferson Shigaki 291 EXPLORATION OF THE ZEMCH WORKSHOP USP 2015 Karin Chvatal, Kelen Dornelles, Bruno Damineli, Akemi Ino, Lúcia Shimbo & Masa Noguchi