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Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2019
Engineering management research objects have gradually been transformed from micro-scale projects to macro-scale built environment. Built environment has driven the advancement of civilization through human history. From the Stone Age to the modern era, built environment, which refers to manmade surroundings, has provided the setting for human ...
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Engineering management research objects have gradually been transformed from micro-scale projects to macro-scale built environment. Built environment has driven the advancement of civilization through human history. From the Stone Age to the modern era, built environment, which refers to manmade surroundings, has provided the setting for human ...
Liang Wang +4 more
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Digital twins in the built environment: Definition, applications, and challenges
Automation in ConstructionWassim AlBalkhy +4 more
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Infrastructure challenges for the built environment
Energy Policy, 2008Abstract The twin challenges of a lower-carbon future and national energy security are focusing attention on the most effective means of energy generation in the built environment. Efficiency gains are offered by the distribution of heat from community heating and combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which is presently underdeveloped in the UK by ...
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Grappling with Climate Challenge in the Built Environment in China
Journal of Energy Engineering, 2010The quality of large-scale urban infrastructure has tremendous implications for long-term energy and environmental security, as it is characterized by long lifetime and irreversibility. Failure to implement energy efficiency in buildings constructed today will result in irreversible carbon lock-in for decades.
Jun Li +2 more
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Survival strategies of built environment organisations in a challenging economy
Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 2018Purpose The economic downturn in Nigeria calls for the need to appraise the survival strategies being adopted by organisations within the built environment, as it plays a major role in the development of every nation. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to appraise the survival strategies of organisations within the built environment, with a view
Douglas Omoregie Aghimien +3 more
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Present and Future Challenges and Opportunities in the Built Environment
2021The present chapter aims to present and discuss the main challenges and opportunities in the Built Environment. The document analyses issues related to the impact of global and local climate change on the built environment, the challenges associated to the expected increase of the world population, social and technological issues related to energy ...
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Beyond technology: Meeting complex multi-stakeholder challenges in the built environment
Building and EnvironmentWhen contemplating strategies to improve built environments' energy efficiency, indoor environments, and climatic resilience, it is natural for engineers to think of technological measures. However, such improvements require deep collaboration of multiple stakeholders in a complex and multi-layered context.
Ardeshir Mahdavi +5 more
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Addressing the challenges of climate change for the built environment
Building Research & Information, 2007Four years have elapsed since this journal's last special issue on climate change (Building Research & Information, 31(3-4), 2003).
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Introduction—Minoan Built Environment: Past Studies, Recent Perspectives, and Future Challenges
2017Architecture and urbanism have been of constant interest to Minoan archaeologists since the beginning of the twentieth century. While there is some scholarly bias to this, with the field deeply affected by Sir Arthur Evans’s focus on the monumental architecture of Knossos, Minoan Crete continues to yield abundant evidence for a substantial built ...
Quentin Letesson, Carl Knappett
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Built Environment Assessment Systems in Africa: Challenges to Assure Environmental Sustainability
2019LiderA is a Sustainable Evaluation System that can be used to select and develop sustainable solutions in plans or projects applied to urban environments or buildings, allowing also certified the level of sustainability. Major challenges identified using the assessment of LiderA system orientation for Africa to achieve an environment sustainability in ...
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