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Xinrui He, Wenli Jia, Yuxiang Dong and Mohammad Siahkouhi
The railway industry has shown a strong interest in utilizing sustainable materials, including recycled materials and composites, in construction. Bamboo, as a highly renewable natural resource, has been proposed as a construction material for the railwa...
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Leandro S. Silva, Mayara Amario, Carina M. Stolz, Karoline V. Figueiredo and Assed N. Haddad
The escalating demand for natural resources within the construction industry is progressing upward. At the same time, however, there is a great concern regarding the depletion of these resources. This review paper emphasizes the significance of utilizing...
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Jingchun Shen, Yang Chen and Karthik Hejamadi Rajagopal
The COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed global efforts toward transitioning to a sustainable society, driving rapid innovation in building technologies, working practices, building design, and whole life cycle environmental impact consideration. In this purs...
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Rui Song, Jing Liu, Kunyu Niu and Yiyu Feng
Accelerating economic globalization is a major driver of the transfer of embodied pollutant emissions from trade. China and the United States are currently the largest importers and exporters of agricultural products, respectively, and are also major pro...
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Ali A. Hammadi and Zaid H. Nasralla
As the Internet grows in capacity, the energy consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are significantly increasing. Significant research efforts on energy conservation have been devoted to devise different technological solutions ...
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Chen Zhu, Zhihan Yang, Boyu Huang and Xiaodong Li
China?s large-scale construction has led to massive energy consumption and carbon emissions. The embodied carbon emissions (ECs) of China?s building sector play a key role in realizing national emission reduction targets. Currently, the understanding of ...
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Shahrokh Maalek, Reza Maalek and Bahareh Maalek
This paper examined the opportunities of composite double-layer grid superstructures in short-to-medium span bridge decks. It was empirically shown here that a double-layer grid deck system in composite action with a thin layer of two-way reinforced conc...
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Abdul Rauf, Daniel Efurosibina Attoye and Robert Crawford
Extensive focus on operational energy research has positively impacted both academia and policymakers, facilitating new strategies that reduce the energy consumed by building occupants. Much less emphasis has, however, been given to embodied energy. Cons...
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Delphine Isimbi and Jihyun Park
In this paper, the characteristics of the Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) green building certification system in terms of the scope of certification, and environmental and social strategies focused on 6024 units in the 17 EDGE-certif...
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Ravijanya Chippagiri, Hindavi R. Gavali, Ana Bras and Rahul V. Ralegaonkar
The increasing urban population requires rapid housing construction. Rising global temperatures have led to more space cooling options inside buildings. There is a need to design new-age buildings with a sustainable, thermal comfort, and energy-efficienc...
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