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Amanda Barros, Eva Barreira, Lino Maia and Maria Lurdes Lopes
Innovation in construction plays a fundamental role in helping us face current challenges, namely the reduction in energy consumption, the mitigation of the effects of climate change, the depletion of resources, and the generation of waste. Regarding the...
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Marek Chabada, Pavol Durica and Peter Juras
Current building envelope greening systems are not just areas covered with vegetation. Today?s systems can maximise the functional contribution of vegetation to a building?s performance and become part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy. The impact ...
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Alexander Koutamanis
Planning regulations determine a substantial part of buildings, but their constraints are usually not included in the setup of a BIM model or used explicitly for design guidance, but only tested in compliance checks once a model has been made. This is sy...
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Kunda Chamatete and Çaglar Yalçinkaya
Three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) is of great interest to scientists and the construction industry to bring automation to structural engineering applications. However, studies on the thermal performance of three-dimensional printed concrete (3DP...
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Dario Bottino-Leone, Dagmar Elisabet Exner, Jennifer Adami, Alexandra Troi and Jessica Balest
The abandonment and deterioration of historic rural buildings in Europe raise significant issues, including hydrogeological risks, the loss of productive land, and cultural heritage decline. Despite being underestimated, these structures hold significant...
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Vidhya Maney Surendran, Chandramathy Irulappan, Vijayalaxmi Jeyasingh and Velraj Ramalingam
This study aims to propose building envelope retrofit packages for existing naturally ventilated school buildings in the hot?humid climatic region of Chennai, India. Indoor thermal parameters were collected through field studies from nine sample classroo...
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Youcef Boussaa, Ambrose Dodoo, Truong Nguyen and Katarina Rupar-Gadd
A major challenge in building energy renovation is to cost effectively achieve notable energy savings. This paper investigates cost-effective passive energy-efficiency measures for thermal envelope retrofit of a typical Swedish multi-apartment building f...
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Antonio Cánovas-Saura, Andrés Cabrera-Lozoya and Javier Padilla
The possibilities of obtaining efficient building thermal control by means of colored envelopes while maintaining broad aesthetic options have been evaluated. The use of colored bilayers, where the inner layer presents strong solar absorbent or reflectan...
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Chao Liu, Chunhai Sun, Guangyuan Li, Wenjia Yang and Fang Wang
The present study provides comprehensive analyses of a newly constructed passive energy-efficient building located in Harbin, China, which is a prime example of how to design a passive building that withstands the severe cold climate in northeast Asia. C...
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Bahador Ziaeemehr, Zahra Jandaghian, Hua Ge, Michael Lacasse and Travis Moore
The Urban Heat Island (UHI), a consequence of urban development, leads to elevated temperatures within cities compared to their rural counterparts. This phenomenon results from factors such as urban designs, anthropogenic heat emissions, and materials th...
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