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Yong-Hee Kim, Soon-Seong Moon and Jun-Oh Yeon
Floor mats are commonly used to improve the impact sound performance of existing homes, but actual impact sound reductions do not consistently appear, as they depend on the test-bed conditions used to determine impact sound performance. Therefore, this s...
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Antti Tuure and Hüseyin Emre Ilgin
As in many other building types, space efficiency in mid-rise timber apartment buildings is one of the critical design parameters to make a project feasible. Space efficiency depends on varying selection criteria related to construction materials, constr...
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Youcef Boussaa, Ambrose Dodoo, Truong Nguyen and Katarina Rupar-Gadd
A major challenge in building energy renovation is to cost effectively achieve notable energy savings. This paper investigates cost-effective passive energy-efficiency measures for thermal envelope retrofit of a typical Swedish multi-apartment building f...
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Dongbo Cai, Shaoqiang Chai, Mingzhuan Wei, Hui Wu, Nan Shen, Yin Zhou, Yanchao Ding, Kaixin Hu and Xingyi Hu
The current expansion of building structures has created a demand for efficient and smart surface quality evaluation at the acceptance phase. However, the conventional approach mainly relies on manual work, which is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and u...
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Mohammad Ramin Amiryar and Junichiro Asano
This study examines the transformation in housing typology from low-rise to apartment buildings in the formal neighborhood of Kabul city. These formal neighborhoods were developed according to plans from 1978. The majority of these neighborhoods were des...
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Graziano Salvalai and Marta Maria Sesana
In 2002, the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) introduced energy certification schemes to classify and compare building performances to support reaching energy efficiency targets by informing the different actors of the building sectors. Ho...
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Jussi Matias Savolainen, Hüseyin Emre Ilgin, Eveliina Oinas and Markku Karjalainen
This study aims to understand the views and experiences of Tampere residents in Finland about multi-story timber-framed apartments and wooden structures through a questionnaire. The 151 responses highlighted two main issues: (1) multi-story timber-framed...
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Farshid Shadram and Jani Mukkavaara
Building developers are continuously seeking solutions to increase saleable/rentable floor area and thus the profitability of investments, especially in large/dense cities where the real estate/rental values are high and shortage of available land result...
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Shihai Wu, Nan Zhang, Yujing Xiang, Dizi Wu, Danping Qiao, Xiaowei Luo and Wei-Zhen Lu
Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology has been widely used in the construction industry in recent years. However, to date, it still cannot sufficiently meet the requirements of construction practitioners in terms of the layout design of floor t...
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Hicham Mharzi Alaoui, Hassan Radoine, Jérôme Chenal, Hassan Yakubu and Salwa Bajja
With the rapid urbanization occurring across African cities, the emergence of a middle class is exerting its influence on the urban form and structure. Matching their social status and drawing on global influences, the housing characteristics of this cla...
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