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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The concept of predictive maintenance in advanced manufacturing systems is crucial from the point of view of resource efficiency in the era of high competitiveness forced by energy transformation in the digital economy. Against the backdrop of sustainability and the opportunities a data cooperative offers, the combination of predictive ...
Christian Schachtner +6 more
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Research and Evaluation of Lithuanian Asphalt Concrete Road Pavements Reinforced by Geosynthetics
The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2006 The paper focuses on the main functions of geosynthetics in asphalt concrete structures; it also offers results of the research into asphalt concrete pavements reinforced by geosynthetics.
Alfredas Laurinavičius +2 more
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Civil Engineering Design, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 9-22, March 2025.Abstract Blockchain technology is a digital decentralized data ledger recording transactions in an encrypted format. Its implementation can potentially hold significant advantages for the built environment, particularly in manufacturing and building product usage aligned with Building Information Modeling (BIM). This paradigm shift toward decentralized
Aileen Pfeil +2 more
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, 2017 Porous concrete is a special kind of concrete that has high porosity. The only difference between porous concrete and normal concrete is that a porous concrete mix does not consist of sand or other small particles.
Ang, Jonathan, Lihndal, Erik
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
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EFFECT OF LDPE RAW MATERIAL ON STRENGTH, CORROSION AND SORPTIVITY OF CONCRETE [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, 2015 Many researchers focused on effect of Low Density Poly Ethylene (LDPE) on bituminous pavements or concrete to modify the strength and ductility in view of reusing the abundant quantity of non-degradable LDPE material available. It also reduces the use of
R. MANIKANDRAN +2 more
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Ngos' Contributions to Innovation: Innovation Enablers or Lead Innovators?
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) engage with innovation processes. Drawing on a comparative case study of two NGOs working in water sustainability, the paper analyses NGO involvement across seven stages of the innovation process.
Maria Cristina Pietronudo +3 more
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Materials and Mix Optimization Procedures for PCC Pavements;TR-484, March 2006 [PDF]
, 2006 Severe environmental conditions, coupled with the routine use of deicing chemicals and increasing traffic volume, tend to place extreme demands on portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements.
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Corporate Sustainability Transition: Methodological Analysis for a Rating Model
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces a new rating model for the evaluation of corporate sustainability, addressing the inconsistencies and divergences that characterize current ESG assessment systems. The model is hierarchically structured, comprising 99 indicators organized into 19 modules, and is designed to be adaptable by sector and firm size.
Riccardo Censi +3 more
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Research on effect of component materials and strength of asphalt concrete
Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Kỹ thuật và Công nghệ, 2012 Most of highways a paved with hot-mix asphalt concrete. However, there is evidence that the number of premature distresses in the asphalt pavements is increasing. Heavier truck axle weights, traffic volumes are some of the factors leading to the increase
Trần Huỳnh Chương +1 more
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