34   Artículos

 
en línea
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... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Albina Scioti and Fabio Fatiguso    
The construction industry involves some of the activities with the highest consumption of raw materials and significant waste production. According to the European Commission, it requires large quantities of resources, representing approximately 50% of a... ver más
Revista: Applied Sciences    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Jaroslav Pokorný, Lucie Zárybnická, Radek ?evcík and Lubo? Podolka    
Plastics represent an integral part of our everyday lives, with various functions from packaging materials to insulation layers in our buildings. Pure expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a good example of a fully recyclable material. However, once polluted wit... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Plínio Campos de Assis Neto, Leane Priscilla Bonfim Sales, Palloma Karolayne Santos Oliveira, Iranilza Costa da Silva, Ilana Maria da Silva Barros, Aline Figueiredo da Nóbrega and Arnaldo Manoel Pereira Carneiro    
Global temperatures have led to an increasing need for air conditioning systems. So, because of this fact, buildings have been improved in terms of their thermal and energy efficiency. Regarding this, the Brazilian standard ABNT NBR 15.575-4/2013 set min... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Rabeb Ayed, Salwa Bouadila, Safa Skouri, Laura Boquera, Luisa F. Cabeza and Mariem Lazaar    
By enhancing the thermal properties of cement-based building materials, energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions related to space conditioning in buildings can be alleviated. This study aims to present cement-based composites reinforced by t... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Gustavo Henrique Nalon, José Carlos Lopes Ribeiro, Leonardo Gonçalves Pedroti, Roberto Marcio da Silva, Eduardo Nery Duarte de Araújo, Rodrigo Felipe Santos and Gustavo Emilio Soares de Lima    
The structural performance of civil engineering infrastructures exposed to elevated temperatures has been investigated in many recent works. Some of these studies evaluated the residual mechanical behavior of masonry prisms subjected to high temperatures... ver más
Revista: Infrastructures    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Daniel Ferrández, Engerst Yedra, Carlos Morón, Alicia Zaragoza and Marta Kosior-Kazberuk    
This research aims to revalue the possibilities presented by lime mortars for use in renovation and as cladding material on facades. The study focuses on analyzing the technical feasibility of lime mortars with the incorporation of residues from three ty... ver más
Revista: Buildings    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Miora Nirina Robson, Omar Al-Mansouri, Nicolas Pinoteau, Marco Abate, Kenton McBride, Roberto Piccinin, Sébastien Rémond and Dashnor Hoxha    
Under fire conditions, bonded anchors often exhibit pull-out failure due to the thermal sensitivity of polymer-based adhesives. However, progress in manufacturing has allowed the development of more thermoresistant mortars, enhancing the probability of o... ver más
Revista: Applied Sciences    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Dany Kassim, Ghandy Lamaa, Rui Vasco Silva and Jorge de Brito    
The use of electric arc furnace slag (EAFS) as sole precursor to produce alkali-activated mortars has been experimentally investigated. EAFS, a by-product of the steel recycling industry, is a coarse material with unevenly distributed and size-extensive ... ver más
Revista: Applied Sciences    Formato: Electrónico

 
en línea
Tiago Trigo, Inês Flores-Colen, Luís Silva, Nuno Vieira, Ana Raimundo and Giovanni Borsoi    
The production of Portland cement (OP) is commonly associated to significant level of energy consumption and gas emissions. The use of calcium sulfoaluminate cement (CSA) can be a sustainable alternative binder, since its production releases about half o... ver más
Revista: Infrastructures    Formato: Electrónico

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