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Paulo Santos, Génesis Camila Cervantes, Alicia Zaragoza-Benzal, Aimee Byrne, Ferhat Karaca, Daniel Ferrández, Adriana Salles and Luís Bragança
Building construction accounts for a significant proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, raw material extraction, and waste production. Applying circular economy (CE) principles in the building construction industry would considerably reduce these...
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Haoyu Lin, Pengkun Quan, Zhuo Liang, Dongbo Wei and Shichun Di
In the context of automatic charging for electric vehicles, collision localization for the end-effector of robots not only serves as a crucial visual complement but also provides essential foundations for subsequent response design. In this scenario, dat...
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Igor Shufrin, Elena Pasternak and Arcady Dyskin
Modern economic, social and environmental challenges require a new type of construction that ensures resilience, low construction costs and ease of maintenance. Material production, manufacturing of structural elements and final assembly should minimise ...
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Guillermo Sotorrío Ortega, Alfonso Cobo Escamilla and José Antonio Tenorio Ríos
The industrialized model of construction is gaining more and more prominence in the specialized literature and in discussion forums wherein the different economic, social, and environmental advantages it offers compared with the traditional model are sho...
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Hongwei Ma, Ziming Huang, Xiongbin Song and Yuhong Ling
Modular steel buildings show high assembly degree and fast installation speed. The inter-module connection (IMC) is one of the key technologies that restrict the robustness of modular steel buildings. An innovative IMC with a cross-shaped plug-in connect...
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Mark Geiger, Daniel Hock and Konrad Nübel
The building industry faces a number of prominent challenges in the coming period. In this article, we focus on productivity in construction, which lags behind other industries despite technological developments. There is an urgent need for more efficien...
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Konstantinos P. Pagkalos, Orfeas Panetas-Felouris and Spyridon Vlassis
In this work, a first-order low-pass filter is proposed as suitable for time-mode PWM signal processing. In time-mode PWM signal processing, the pulse width of a rectangular pulse is the processing variable. The filter is constructed using basic time-mod...
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Muhammad Talha Siddique, Paraskevas Koukaras, Dimosthenis Ioannidis and Christos Tjortjis
The Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) is a newly developed framework that measures a building?s technological readiness to improve its energy efficiency. The integration of data obtained from this framework with data derived from Building Information Model...
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Mohamed M. Kosbar, Emad Elbeltagi, Ibrahim Mahdi, Mahmoud Kassem and A. Ehab
New technologies like modular construction are expected to increase the market share in developing countries with a high annual growth rate such as in Egypt. Modular construction solutions that have content depending on the process of off-site constructi...
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Thisari Munmulla, Satheeskumar Navaratnam, Julian Thamboo, Thusiyanthan Ponnampalam, Hidallana-Gamage Hasitha Damruwan, Konstantinos Daniel Tsavdaridis and Guomin Zhang
The limited knowledge of the behaviour of modular buildings subjected to different loading scenarios and thereby lack of design guidelines hinder the growth of modular construction practices despite its widespread benefits. In order to understand the rob...
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