Building Technology Program Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Church housing : a symbol of hospitality 

      Kwack, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Sey-Kyung) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
      This project is located in Bloomfield, NJ. Less than fifteen miles from New York City, the Township of Bloomfield was first settled by the Dutch in 1691 and later by the English in 1719. In 1812, the State of New Jersey ...

    • Preservation of early wrought iron trusses : the 1848 roof of the Cochituate gatehouse 

      Ferriss, Lori (Lori E.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
      This thesis investigates the historic significance, structural condition, and preservation challenges of the wrought iron roof trusses of the Cochituate aqueduct's inlet gatehouse as the possible earliest surviving example ...

    • A global typology of cities : classification tree analysis of urban resource consumption 

      Saldivar-Sali, Artessa Niccola D., 1980- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
      A study was carried out to develop a typology of urban metabolic (or resource consumption) profiles for 155 globally representative cities. Classification tree analysis was used to develop a model for determining how certain ...