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Amin Habibi and Nafise Kahe
This study investigates how permeable and cool pavements, green roofs, and living walls affect microclimatic conditions and buildings? energy consumption in an arid urban setting: Shiraz. The study aims to evaluate the role of green infrastructure in mit...
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Lei Zhang, Cuikun Wang, Caihua Chen and Mingzhe Cui
Against the backdrop of China?s continuous promotion of green and low-carbon transformation and the development of construction industrialization, high-strength composite structural systems have significant development prospects. However, their research ...
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Safeer Abbas, Omer Saleem, Mujasim Ali Rizvi, Syed Minhaj Saleem Kazmi, Muhammad Junaid Munir and Shahid Ali
The use of energy efficient structures in the local construction industry assists in promoting green building concepts, leading to economical and eco-friendly solutions for self-sustained structures. The main aim of this study was to examine and compare ...
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Michelina Catauro, Giovanni Dal Poggetto, Severina Pacifico, Fernanda Andreola, Isabella Lancellotti and Luisa Barbieri
In this study, we compared the chemical-physical, antibacterial, and cytotoxicity properties of silico-aluminous and silicate materials for outdoor (green roof, planted walls) and indoor (urban farms, indoor microgreen gardens) cultivation purpose in a c...
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Ahmed A. Freewan, Neda?a M. Jaradat and Ikrima A. Amaireh
Due to global concerns about energy issues, global warming, and urban quality, vertical greening systems (VGS) are receiving more attention in construction and design research. Therefore, VGS has become part of building envelope design as a passive techn...
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Ying Du and Wei Huang
The quality of street space has attracted attention. It is important to understand the needs of different population groups for street space quality, especially the rapidly growing elderly group. Improving the quality of street space is conducive to prom...
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Robert Sitzenfrei, Manfred Kleidorfer, Peter M. Bach and Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin
Urban water systems face severe challenges such as urbanisation, population growth and climate change. Traditional technical solutions, i.e., pipe-based, grey infrastructure, have a single purpose and are proven to be unsustainable compared to multi-purp...
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Salam Al-Obaidi, Patrick Bamonte, Massimo Luchini, Iacopo Mazzantini and Liberato Ferrara
This paper provides the formulation and description of the framework and methodology for a Durability Assessment-based Design approach for structures made of the Ultra-High-Durability Concrete materials conceived, produced and investigated in the project...
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Yangang Xing, Phil Jones and Iain Donnison
Nature has provided humankind with food, fuel, and shelter throughout evolutionary history. However, in contemporary cities, many natural landscapes have become degraded and replaced with impermeable hard surfaces (e.g., roads, paving, car parks and buil...
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