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Greening existing buildings [GEB] strategies
Energy Reports, 2018 Global warming has raised a global concern on climate change. One of the effective measures to combat this global warming is to limit/conserve the energy uses globally.
Ben Chak-Man Leung
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Seismic Isolation Devices for Protecting RC Buildings: The Frangipane School in Reggio Calabria
Applied Sciences, 2022 Seismic isolation devices, as known, are particularly efficient tools for the protection of newly designed or existing buildings and infrastructures and for the mitigation of maximum effects due to earthquakes. The highest is the vulnerability of a given
Raffaele Pucinotti +2 more
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Frontiers in Built Environment, 2023 This paper introduces an updated formulation of a five-step procedure dealing with the design of fluid viscous dampers for the seismic retrofitting of existing frame buildings.
Matteo Marra +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2020 Due to the conjunction between the European and African plates, complex tectonic phenomena take place in the Mediterranean basin. These phenomena cause more or less violent seismic resentments in the countries facing the basin itself.
Elsa Garavaglia +3 more
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CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development, 2019 Existing buildings have a huge opportunity in terms of energy and water savings potential in Indonesia. In Jakarta alone, it is estimated that least 90 percent of total buildings were built before 2014.
Novi Triadi Iman Bramono +2 more
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Effects of Dissipative Systems on the Seismic Behavior of Irregular Buildings—Two Case Studies
Buildings, 2020 Conservation of heritage buildings has become a very important issue in many countries, as it is in Italy, where a great number of existing buildings of historical–artistic importance are seismically vulnerable.
Marco Miani +3 more
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Probabilistic Seismic Assessment of Existing Masonry Buildings
Buildings, 2019 The evaluation of seismic performance of existing masonry buildings is a critical issue in assessing the seismic vulnerability of the built environment. With this aim, non-linear static analysis is commonly used, but results are influenced significantly ...
Pietro Croce +2 more
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Renovation Measures for Energy-saving Skin of Existing Buildings [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 As an important part of internal and external connections, the building skin can not only beautify the appearance of the building, but also improve the energy-saving performance of the building. This article aims to sort out the specific measures of skin
Tong Hao, Chen Kai
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Assessment of energy consumption in existing buildings [PDF]
Energy and Buildings, 2017 There has been general recognition within the construction industry that there is a discrepancy between the amount of energy that buildings actually use and what designers considered that they should use. This phenomenon is termed “The Performance Gap” and is normally associated with new buildings.
Brady, LJ, Abdellatif, M
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LandWhen profit-driven renewal is difficult to implement, many historic districts in China become “frozen” under protection. In the recent social context of “building cities for the people”, public value-oriented renewal of urban historic areas has become ...
Ruijie Zhang +4 more
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