This article gives an overview of the different ways the wind resource at a site can be estimated. Eight separate ways have been identified. Each of these will be described in some detail, and advantages and disadvantages of each of them will be discussed. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Purpose -The objective is to explore the transfer of lean manufacturing/production from the Japanese manufacturing industry to the construction sector in the west. Design/methodology/approach -Research literature from the fields of lean manufacturing/production and lean construction was reviewed. This revealed a number of characteristics that are specific to lean construction, most notably the recognition that critical research findings have been slow to emerge but appear to be gaining momentum. Findings -In the transition from manufacturing to construction the process losses appear to be related to critical aspects and the challenges surrounding practical application to a different context. Lean is highly interpretive and there is no shared definition or understanding of what is meant by lean, lean production, and lean construction. The focus has been mainly on production system design, planning and management, and implementation. This narrow focus has meant that some important issues concerning the wider aspects of lean have been overlooked. There is a need for a 'back to basics' discussion on many other aspects of the approach, such as whole-life value and waste identification. Research limitations/implications -The work is limited to an extensive literature review. Originality/value -The extensive literature review makes an original contribution to the lean construction field and provides a valuable resource for researchers.

Citation: JORGENSEN, B. and EMMITT, S., 2009. Investigating the integration of design and construction from a lean perspective. ConstructionInnovation: Information, Process, Management, 9 (2), pp. 225 -240.Additional Information:• Design/methodology/approach -Following an extensive review of the literature a multiple case strategy approach was used to explore the practical application of lean approaches to design and construction integration in an organisational setting.Summaries of the case studies, one from the USA and two from Denmark, help to highlight a number of pertinent issues facing practitioners and researchers.Findings -Findings suggest that it is possible to identify a number of aspects that (in theory as well as in practice) both influence and, to various extents, limit the applicability of the lean philosophy to construction. Findings also help to emphasise the importance of a number of interdependent factors for achieving better integration, namely: value identification/specification; an appropriate project delivery framework; structuring and planning of delivery processes; transparency; management and leadership; learning; and the importance of local context. Originality/value of paper -The findings provides an original contribution to the integration of design and construction activities from a lean perspective. The findings are generic and could be practically applied in a variety of contexts.

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The exhalant jet flow of mussels in conjunction with currents and/or other mussels may strongly influence the mussels' grazing impact. Literature values of mussel exhalant jet velocity vary considerably and the detailed fluid mechanics of the near-mussel flow generated by the exhalant jet has hitherto been uncertain. Computational modelling of this phenomenon depends on knowledge of the velocity distribution near the exhalant siphon aperture of mussels to provide appropriate boundary conditions for numerical flow models. To be useful such information should be available for a range of mussel shell lengths. Here, we present results of a detailed study of fully open mussels Mytilus edulis in terms of filtration rate, exhalant siphon aperture area, jet velocity, gill area and body dry weight, all as a function of shell length (mean ± SD) over the range 16.0 ± 0.4 to 82.6 ± 2.9 mm, with the corresponding scaling laws also presented. The exhalant jet velocity was determined by 3 methods: (1) measured clearance rate divided by exhalant aperture area, (2) manual particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) using video-microscope recordings, and (3) particle image velocimetry (PIV). The latter provides detailed 2-component velocity distributions near the exhalant siphon in 5 planes parallel to the axis of the jet and the major axis of the oval aperture, and hence estimates of momentum and kinetic energy flows in addition to mean velocity. Data obtained on particles inside the exhalant jet of filtered water was verified by the use of titanium dioxide seeding particles which were de-agglomerated by ultrasound to a size range of 0.7 to 2 µm prior to addition, to avoid retention by the gill filter of the mussels. We found that exhalant jet velocity was essentially constant at ~8 cm s −1 , and independent of shell length. Based on geometric similarity and scaling of mussel pump-system characteristics we found that these characteristics coincide approximately for all sizes when expressed as pressure head versus volume flow divided by shell length squared. KEY WORDS: Filtration rate · Exhalant siphon area · Particle image velocimetry · Particle tracking velocimetry · Exhalant jet velocity · Velocity field · Allometric equation · Scaling law Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisherMar Ecol Prog Ser 437: [147][148][149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164] 2011 will influence the grazing impact and thus the concentration distribution of food particles reaching the inhalant aperture; hence affecting the feeding conditions of the mussel. Of particular interest is the undesirable phenomenon of re-filtration where part of the once filtered and exhaled water reaches the inhalant aperture of either the same or other mussels. This has been studied to some extent for mussel beds where a number of attempts have been made to model phytoplankton concentration gradients caused by dense beds of filter-feeding bivalves in relatively strong currents with a high ...