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Lithium-ion battery second life: pathways, challenges and outlook. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Chem
Patel AN   +8 more
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Funding building refurbishments

SecEd, 2012
The axing of the Building Schools for the Future left many schools in limbo, with poor buildings but no funding to replace them. Vincent King looks at funding refurbishments in a post-BSF world, while Andy Shaw offers some money-saving tips.
Vincent King, Andy Shaw
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Building refurbishment: habitat upgrading

Energy and Buildings, 2000
Building refurbishment is often considered as a technical matter that concerns technical experts and engineers. However, every refurbishment operation modifies the human living environment. A narrow technical or financial vision can deteriorate people's living environment, while a global approach can upgrade it to current comfort standards, ecological ...
J.-L Genre, F Flourentzos, T Stockli
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Building façades: sustainability, maintenance and refurbishment

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability, 2005
The UK has a fairly mature building stock with between 1 and 5% of new buildings being introduced each year. The development of new façade solutions that can respond to the needs of the occupants of both new and refurbished buildings is, therefore, a key area for development.
Kaluarachchi, Y.   +6 more
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Buildings Recycled—City Refurbished

Journal of Architectural Education, 2001
The treatment of buildings as mere structural enclosures for physical shelter contributes to the ease and frequency in which they are demolished to make way for new development in Hong Kong.
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Refurbishment of Buildings and Bridges

2002
Principles and Design Criteria for Consolidation and Rehabilitation (F. M. Mazzolani).- Refurbishment of Steel Bridges (M. Ivanyi).- Refurbishment of Single-Storey Buildings (H. Pasternak).- Strengthening Techniques for Buildings (A. Mandara).- Use of Special Techniques in Refurbishment (J.-P.
MAZZOLANI, FEDERICO MASSIMO, IVANYI M.
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Refurbishment of industrial buildings

Energy Conversion and Management, 2006
When a building is subject for refurbishment, there is a golden opportunity to change its behavior as an energy system. This paper shows the importance of careful investigations of the processes, the climate shield and the heating systems already present in the building before measures are implemented in reality.
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Sustainable refurbishment in building technology

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 2012
PurposeThe aim of this review article is to identify a number of key research efforts related to decision making tools in building refurbishment projects and selected energy efficiency efforts in the built environment. Following these findings a proposed research area with focus on energy in the building environment will be suggested for further ...
Navid Gohardani, Folke Björk
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Precision refurbishment of buildings: a façade refurbishment case study

Structural Survey, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic refurbishment design procedure that allows precision refurbishment and thus enables the preservation of existing structures and their component parts.Design/methodology/approachThe participatory research method was chosen and was used to develop and test a precision refurbishment procedure ...
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