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Khaled Galal Ahmed
The current ?rigid? construction systems and material of Emirati social housing leave little room for residents to undertake their desired adaptations and extensions of their turn-key houses, which have been designed, built and submitted to them by feder...
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Chao Guo, Jiake Li, Huaien Li, Bei Zhang, Menghua Ma and Fan Li
Rain gardens have recently been studied as important low-impact development (LID) facilities that play a critical role in runoff volume reduction and pollutant purification. Approximately 16?40 rainfall events were monitored from March 2011 to October 20...
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Julie Chenot, Elie Gaget, Cannelle Moinardeau, Renaud Jaunatre, Elise Buisson and Thierry Dutoit
The Mediterranean basin is extremely vulnerable to climate change, and one of the areas most impacted by human water demand. Yet the green roofs increasingly created both for aesthetic reasons and to limit pollution and urban runoff are themselves very w...
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Laura Toran
Stormwater control measures (SCMs) are a key component of watershed health in urbanized areas. SCMs are used to increase infiltration and reduce discharge to streams or storm sewer systems during rain events. Monitoring is important for the evaluation of...
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Craig Langston
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Green roofs have potential to improve the social and environmental performance of detached housing in Australia, yet often they are overlooked due to prohibitive capital cost and a range of other perceptions that are difficult to quantify. A classic eval...
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