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Challenges of a Healthy Built Environment: Air Pollution in Construction Industry [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Air pollution is a global concern, especially in cities and urban areas, and has many implications for human health and for the environment. In common with other industrial sectors, the construction industry emits air pollutants. In scientific literature, the contribution the construction industry makes to air pollution is underexposed. This systematic
Antonija Ana Wieser +3 more
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The role of virtual reality in built environment education [PDF]
, 2008 This study builds upon previous research on the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) within the built environment curriculum and aims to investigate the role of VR and three-dimensional (3D) computer modelling on learning and teaching in a school of the ...
Alvarado R. G. +6 more
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Social Innovation in the Built Environment: The Challenges Presented by the Politics of Space
Urban Science, 2020 This paper reports on social innovation systems for building resilient communities within different social and political contexts across four continents. It considers how social innovation in the built environment occurs over phases of network, framework
Donagh Horgan, Branka Dimitrijević
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Energies, 2021 The Anthropocene thesis poses new challenges to human activity on the planet. These challenges also apply to the built environment. Climate change will increase existing threats, and create new ones, for both human and natural systems.
Krystyna Januszkiewicz +3 more
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Overcoming challenges faced by local governments in creating a resilient built environment in cities [PDF]
, 2016 Purpose: Although, a number of initiatives have been taken after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami to institutionalise Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), gaps still exist in the Sri Lankan local government sector.
Chamindi Malalgoda +4 more
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Carbon storage in the built environment: a review
Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, 2023 With a rapidly decreasing carbon budget, the urgency of deep greenhouse gas reductions becomes increasingly necessary. This accentuates the need for the emerging paradigm shift, transforming the built environment from a major source of CO _2 emissions to
Stavroula Bjånesøy +3 more
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Buildings, 2021 What is the future of virtual reality (VR) in the built environment? As work becomes increasingly distributed across remote and hybrid forms of organizing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to rethink how we use the set of ...
Dragana Nikolić, Jennifer Whyte
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Large-scale Complex IT Systems [PDF]
, 2011 This paper explores the issues around the construction of large-scale complex systems which are built as 'systems of systems' and suggests that there are fundamental reasons, derived from the inherent complexity in these systems, why our current software
Antoniou G. +11 more
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Mobility on Demand in the United States [PDF]
, 2020 The growth of shared mobility services and enabling technologies, such as smartphone apps, is contributing to the commodification and aggregation of transportation services.
P Davidson, S Shaheen, SAE International
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Buildings, 2023 The main objective of this research is to describe a multidisciplinary investigation part of an ongoing research project. The contribution focuses on the identification and selection of innovative technologies and operative methodologies capable of ...
Elisa Zatta +3 more
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