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Alon Urlainis, Monica Paciuk and Igal M. Shohet
This study investigates the life expectancy (LE) and life cycle costs (LCC) of three alternatives of interior partitions in residential units: gypsum board, autoclaved concrete block, and hollow concrete block partitions. The aim is to examine the sustai...
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Fan Ding, Min Liu, Simon M. Hsiang, Peng Hu, Yuxiang Zhang and Kewang Jiang
The complexity and uncertainty of construction projects contribute to low efficiency in the construction industry. This research applied the Takt-time planning method to optimize the construction working process, and proposed a risk control framework bas...
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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Juan Patricio Chicaiza-Fuentes and Ana Gabriela Haro-Baez
This study presents the performance-based seismic assessment of low-rise reinforced concrete archetype buildings, considering repair costs for ordinary moment-resistant frames (OMF) and dual systems consisting of OMF plus special shear walls (SSW). Histo...
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Ahmed Sherif, Khaled Tarabieh, Islam Mashaly and Mariam Amer
Large-scale residential projects require architects to balance energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and cost-effectiveness in designing building units distributed in different orientations. Applying a single design to all orientations may not result in co...
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Seyyed Danial Nazemi, Mohsen A. Jafari and Esmat Zaidan
The impact of load growth on electricity peak demand is becoming a vital concern for utilities. To prevent the need to build new power plants or upgrade transmission lines, power companies are trying to design new demand response programs. These programs...
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Yohei Endo and Takaharu Yasue
Experimental and numerical studies were conducted to examine the resistance of a newly developed residential building to inundations. Natural disasters including inundations have occurred frequently in recent decades. Once inundations submerge urban area...
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Maha Shehadeh, Emily Kwok, Jason Owen and Majid Bahrami
The City of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada has recently launched a district energy network (DEN) to supply residential and commercial buildings in the Surrey Centre area with hot water for space and domestic hot water heating. The network runs on nat...
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Beata Nowogonska and Jacek Korentz
Each building, over the course of subsequent years of use, undergoes wear, with a deterioration of its technical condition. As a result of this, the performance characteristics of a building decrease with the passing of time, with their complete or parti...
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An accurate cost estimate not only plays a key role in project feasibility studies but also in achieving a final successful outcome. Conventionally, estimating cost typically relies on the experience of professionals and cost data from previous projects....
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