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Helena M. Ramos, Modesto Pérez-Sánchez, Prajwal S. M. Guruprasad, Armando Carravetta, Alban Kuriqi, Oscar E. Coronado-Hernández, João F. P. Fernandes, Paulo J. Costa Branco and Petra Amparo López-Jiménez
The world?s water infrastructures suffer from inefficiencies, such as high energy consumption and water losses due to inadequate management practices and feeble pressure regulation, leading to frequent water and energy losses. This strains vital water an...
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Artem Marchenko, Rolands Kromanis and André G. Dorée
Temperature is the main driver of bridge response. It is continuously applied and may have complex distributions across the bridge. Daily temperature loads force bridges to undergo deformations that are larger than or equal to peak-to-peak traffic loads....
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Araceli Peña-Fernández, Manuel A. Colón-Reynoso and Pilar Mazuela
Greenhouses are instrumental in the advancement of regions globally. The geometric arrangement of these structures plays a pivotal role in governing sunlight distribution, facilitating ventilation, and managing condensation. The roof?s shape significantl...
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Salvatore Principale and Simone Pizzi
The recommendations of the Task Force on Climate Change Disclosure (TCFD) represent fundamental guidelines for managing climate-change-related risks. Indeed, the TCFD outlines good practices for integrated risk management as well as aims to protect inves...
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Ahsen Maqsoom, Hassan Ashraf, Wesam Salah Alaloul, Alaa Salman, Fahim Ullah, Maria Ghufran and Muhammad Ali Musarat
Job stress (JS) is a significant issue in the construction industry of developing countries. This study aims to examine the impact of error-management climate (EMC), safety climate (SC), and psychological capital (PC) (as a mediator) on employee JS in th...
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Abdelouhab Labihi, Paul Byrne, Amina Meslem, Florence Collet and Sylvie Prétot
This study first presents the development and the experimental validation of a numerical model of a semi-closed greenhouse using a dynamic thermal simulation. The second objective was to identify the influential parameters on the indoor climate and to ca...
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Qun Wang, Wei Guo, Xizhen Xu, Ronghui Deng, Xiaoxin Ding and Tiebing Chen
Prefabricated buildings are gradually being promoted from pilot demonstration to scale, to combat climate change and improve energy conservation and emission reduction in the building sector. Despite the carbon emission of assembled structures being subs...
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Yifang Zhou, Mingzhang Pan, Wei Guan, Changcheng Fu and Tiecheng Su
As a raw material for sugar, ethanol, and energy, sugarcane plays an important role in China?s strategic material reserves, economic development, and energy production. To guarantee the sustainable growth of the sugarcane industry and boost sustainable e...
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Kangning Xiong, Cheng He and Yongkuan Chi
Grasslands in karst ecological fragile areas can effectively mitigate climate change, conserve biodiversity, maintain human well-being, and play a significant role in improving the health of regional ecosystems and farmers? livelihoods. Thus, the study o...
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Jiaping Liang, Hang Li, Na Li, Qiliang Yang and Linchao Li
Rapeseed is one of China?s major oil crops, and accurate yield forecasting is crucial to the growth of the rapeseed industry and the country?s food security. In this study, the data on natural and socio-economic factors from 2001 to 2020 and the yield of...
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