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Reality Model-Based Facility Management Framework for Existing Building

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2022
Facility management (FM) is the most extended phase of the entire life cycle of buildings and incurs the highest expenses. However, limited quality drawings and historical data make information flow more complicated for many existing buildings and lead ...
Hung Duy Duong, Jacob J. Lin
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The meteor of the Neighbourhood Contracts through the case of the San Siro district in Milan

open access: yesTechne, 2012
The study deals with the San Siro public housing neighbourhood in Milan, whose size and amount of issues make the district as a system in itself disjointed to the urban context.
Maria Fianchini
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Strengths and Weaknesses of Existing Building Green Retrofits: Case Study of a LEED EBOM Gold Project

open access: yesEnergies, 2018
This study investigated the process of existing building green retrofits through examining a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Building: Operations and Maintenance (LEED EBOM) Gold project.
Xiaonuan Sun   +3 more
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Seismic Energy Upgrading of an Existing Brick Masonry Building by a Cold-Formed Steel Envelope System

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
In recent years, new solutions have been studied in order to intervene on existing buildings made of load-bearing masonry or reinforced concrete, both from the seismic point of view and the energy one.
Antonio Davino   +4 more
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Development of Energy Benchmarks for Office Buildings Using the National Energy Consumption Database

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
In an effort to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, it is necessary to first evaluate the energy performance of those buildings. Since it is difficult to obtain detailed information on existing buildings, the challenge is how to conduct ...
Hye Gi Kim, Sun Sook Kim
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Building Information Modeling for existing sustainable buildings [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The article is devoted to evaluation of the possibility of usage BIM for existing buildings. While BIM processes are established for new buildings, the majority of existing buildings is not maintained, refurbished or deconstructed with BIM yet.
Braila Natalya   +2 more
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Experimental Investigation of the Shear Strength of RC Beams Extracted from an Old Structure and Strengthened by Carbon FRP U-Strips

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2018
In recent years, old reinforced concrete (RC) buildings have increasingly been protected as historic symbols in Italy. The conversion of these buildings can resolve the increasing need for new structures, reducing much social, economic, and environmental
Davide Lavorato   +2 more
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The Application of Silica-Based Aerogel Board on the Fire Resistance and Thermal Insulation Performance Enhancement of Existing External Wall System Retrofit

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Due to the need of good thermal performance, external wall insulation (EWI) is usually made of materials that are not fire resistant and sometimes flammable.
Kuang-Sheng Liu   +3 more
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From existing conventional building towards LEED certified green building: case study in Bangladesh

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2023
Green Building refers to the planning, design, construction, and operation of buildings considering indoor environment quality, occupant health, using energy, water, and other resources more efficiently; and reducing waste, pollution, and the overall ...
Ashik Iqbal   +4 more
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How Can Existing Buildings with Historic Values Contribute to Achieving Emission Reduction Ambitions?

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
In line with the Paris Agreement, Norway aims for an up to 55% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and to be a low-emission society by 2050. Given that 85–90% of today’s buildings are expected to still be in use in
Selamawit Mamo Fufa   +2 more
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