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Intelligent Software for Ecological Building Design
Building design is a complex process because of the number of elements and issues involved and the number of relationships that exist among them. Adding sustainability issues to the list increases the complexity of design by an order of magnitude.
Jens Pohl, Hisham Assal, Kym Jason Pohl
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Comparative analysis of environmentally friendly materials [PDF]
Woodworking industry currently generates a large amount of unused waste suitable for recycling. The solution to this urgent problem is the use of this raw material in construction industry, which would solve many economic and environmental problems.
Girya Lidiya +4 more
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With the increasingly serious problems of global warming, environmental degradation, and energy resource shortage, reducing the energy consumption of buildings and realizing the sustainable development of buildings, vigorously developing green buildings ...
Yongwang Zhang +5 more
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The Impact of Materials’ Technology on Sustainability of Buildings
The evolution in materials’ technology in the last decades resulted in interesting projects that aimed at preserving the environment and energy and reduce pollution.
ASEEL ABD- ALHALEEM LATIF +1 more
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Research into biomimetics has focused on science and technology, often developing the innovative parts of buildings from nature, leading to a new field of bioinspired architecture.
Richard Hyde
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Building Ecological Networks In Slovakia And Poland [PDF]
Abstract The paper is aimed at evaluating the creation of territorial systems of ecological stability in two neighbouring countries - Slovakia and Poland. The paper evaluates various initiatives and approaches and their positives and negatives.
Izakovičová, Zita +1 more
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Calculated and actual reductions of carbon dioxide emissions resulting from thermal modernization of public buildings [PDF]
The paper presents the reductions of carbon dioxide, resulting from calculations based on the implemented variants of energy audits, in several public buildings situated in North-Eastern Poland.
Wiesław Sarosiek, Beata Sadowska
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution forms a smart grid with diverse sources of energy through the interconnectivity of data. Buildings that were previously the biggest users of energy are now becoming energy producers.
Mark Bomberg +2 more
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Vernacular architecture is the product of environmental, social, and economic innovations.In fact, this type of architecture seeks to make buildings compatible with the environment via the use of local knowledge and experiences.Bearing in mind the issue ...
Mahsa Javadi Nodeh +2 more
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Ecological Footprint of the Life Cycle of Buildings
In recent years, construction and use of buildings in Spain accounted for more than 40% of energy consumption, 36% of CO2 emissions, 50% of material extractions from the earth’s crust and 25% of the solid waste generated. Optimizing the resource requirement in existing buildings is a key step in the task of reaching the community targets for 2030: 27 ...
Rivero Camacho, Cristina +3 more
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