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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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Rajveer Singh, Deepika Chauhan, Alanna Fogarty, Md Rasheduzzaman and Patrick L. Gurian
Managing building water systems is complicated by the need to maintain hot water temperatures high enough to control the growth of Legionella spp. while minimizing the risk of scalding. This study assessed water quality management practices in large buil...
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Robert Lopez, Heap-Yih Chong and Conrad Pereira
Limited empirical and qualitative studies focus on the detailed processes and obstacles for coordinating off-site prefabrication between builders and suppliers. This research aims to identify and address the obstacles that currently prevent the further e...
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Junjun Han, Xiaoping Zhou, Weisong Zhang, Qiang Guo, Jia Wang and Yixin Lu
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems are crucial to a building, which directly affect the building safety, energy saving, and operational efficiency. Building information models (BIMs) help engineers to view the connection structure of MEP ...
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Jad Chalhoub, Steven K. Ayer and Kieren H. McCord
Effective use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) during operation typically requires modeled content to accurately match the built spaces, which necessitates effective field verification techniques to ensure that BIM content matches the actual built ...
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Argaw Gurmu, Anna Galluzzo, John Kite
Consumer satisfaction is essential for quality assurance, business survival and economic prosperity. It can also be used as an indicator of the occurrence of defects in the houses delivered by builders. The objective of this study is to compare the quali...
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Stefano Conti, Claudio Argentino, Chiara Fioroni, Aura Cecilia Salocchi and Daniela Fontana
The natural emission of methane-rich fluids from the seafloor, known as cold seepage, is a widespread process at modern continental margins. The studies on present-day cold seepages provide high-resolution datasets regarding the fluid plumbing system, bi...
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Andi Andi,Jani Rahardjo,Fendy Fendy
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Rework can bring negative effect to construction project. This research aims to identify the importance level of factors causing reworks in structural, finishing, and mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) works by a way of importance performance anal...
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Vanessa C. F. Dias, Audrey-Anne Durand, Philippe Constant, Michèle Prévost and Emilie Bédard
Disentangling factors influencing suspended bacterial community structure across distribution system and building plumbing provides insight into microbial control strategies from source to tap. Water quality parameters (residence time, chlorine, and tota...
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Salvatore Inguaggiato, Fabio Vita, Marianna Cangemi and Lorenzo Calderone
The last increased volcanic activity of the Stromboli volcano, from 2016 to 2018, was characterized by increases in the number and frequency of crater explosions and by episodes of lava overflow. The volcanic activity was monitored utilizing CO2 soil flu...
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