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Journal of Green Building, College Publishing, USA, 2023 Energy consumption in buildings has become one of the most critical problems in all countries and principles of sustainability suggest that a satisfactory solution must be found to reduce energy consumption.
N. Ranjbar +4 more
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Sustainability, 2022 China is a world leader in capital construction. In the construction field, the shift toward prefabricated construction has become an important path for industrial transformation.
Zufeng Shang, Fenglai Wang, Xu Yang
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Knowledge, 2022 The building-and-construction industry has been researched extensively over its life cycle regarding green and sustainable processes and techniques due to its major contributions towards energy consumption and its environmental impacts.
M. Sandanayake
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Risks of Implementing Sustainable Construction Practices in the Nigerian Building Industry
Construction Economics and Building, 2022 This study assessed the risks level associated with implementation of sustainable construction practices through a questionnaire survey distributed to 256 building professionals in Nigeria.
P. Okoye, K. Okolie, I. Odesola
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Circular Economy in the building industry European policy and local practices
European Planning Studies, 2021 As one of the biggest consumers of natural resources, the building industry is a central target for EU and national Circular Economy (CE) policies. This qualitative case study uses a practice theory approach to investigate how firms in the building ...
Rannveig Edda Hjaltadóttir, P. Hild
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Main Features of the Timber Structure Building Industry Business Models
Buildings, 2021 The use of timber as structural building material is growing and a greater number of firms are looking to enter this raising market. Erecting a complex timber building usually involves combining the work of architects, structural engineers, builders ...
Annie Gosselin +3 more
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Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021 Prefabricated building industry bases emerged at exactly the right moment, and therefore coincided with the transformation and upgrade of the construction industry and the rapid development of urbanization, but the analysis of the process through which ...
Sunmeng Wang +3 more
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, 2015 Contemporary debates on the transformation of building methods, the structure of the building industry, and the introduction of new technologies (informational, material and structural) in professional literature and in the architectural humanities tend ...
Beech, N. +7 more
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Work Stress among Professionals in the Building Construction Industry in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2011 This study was undertaken to identify key stress factors among professionals in the building construction industry in Nigeria. This is in view of the fact that to date, very little is known about work stress among professionals in the building ...
Anosike, N. M, +3 more
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The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2020 Building life cycle assessment (LCA) draws on a number of indicators, including primary energy (PE) demand and global warming potential (GWP). A method of constructing a composite index of weighted individual indicators facilitates their use in ...
P. Schneider-Marin, W. Lang
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