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Najeeba Kutty, Dua Barakat and Maatouk Khoukhi
Cities are paying more attention to building energy use and carbon footprint for attaining sustainability. Within this building sector, there is a growing attention toward development and adoption of energy efficient retrofit strategies. Plagued by the l...
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Tomás P. Venegas, Byron A. Espinosa, Francisco A. Cataño and Diego A. Vasco
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Carlos Zepeda-Gil and Augusto Jacobo Montiel-Castro
Despite being perceived as a warm country, winters in the Central Mexican Plateau frequently reach temperatures below zero Celsius. Prolonged exposures to low temperatures resulting in heart and respiratory morbidities are estimated to be responsible for...
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Eduardo González-Díaz, José Miguel Márquez-Martinón, Ana Pérez-García, Norena Martín-Dorta and Benjamín González-Díaz
Nowadays, a large amount of the total primary energy is consumed by buildings, accounting for about 40% of the total energy demand. Aligned with the EU objectives and the strategies to reduce the demand, cooling and heating are stated as the most energy ...
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Wilson Wladimir Carofilis Gallo, Nicholas Clemett, Giammaria Gabbianelli, Gerard O?Reilly and Ricardo Monteiro
Modern society requires that structures exhibit greater levels of resilience, especially under earthquakes. The seismic resilience of buildings is thus gaining increased attention as a particular, beyond-code approach. Seismically retrofitted buildings b...
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Xiaoxiao Rao, Feng Qi, Xiaoxiao Zhang and Zhuoxun Mao
Traditional wooden dwellings, which are widely distributed with enormous stocks in China, are of great historical and have obvious cultural value. The walls of such buildings are generally subjected to poor thermal insulation performance, which not only ...
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Abdulmajeed Aldabesh, Jassmen Soufi, Siddig Omer and Abdullah Haredy
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), as one of the largest polluters worldwide, has released its Vision 2030 that seeks sustainable development via economic diversification to transition towards lower CO2 energy systems. Due to fast population and economic...
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Marco Vona, Amedeo Flora, Emiliano Carlucci and Enrico Foscolo
The resilience of communities is given by the ideal convolution of the resilience of all their single parts. Strategic buildings require high levels of performance during and after a seismic sequence. Consequently, the seismic retrofitting of old strateg...
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Lei Zhang, Honghao Li and Wei Wang
Two retrofit strategies, aiming at increasing the collapse resistance of simple connections by adding seat angles and steel plates with long-slotted holes, are proposed in order to address the vulnerability of steel gravity frames under column loss scena...
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Caterina Caprioli, Marta Bottero and Elena De Angelis
Renewable energy resources and energy-efficient technologies, as well as building retrofitting, are only some of the possible strategies that can achieve more sustainable cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies and incentives are often prov...
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