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, 2015 Fashions come and go in the development community. When a policy idea becomes popular, some governments implement a cosmetic variant of the policy. What looks like development, are institutional facades; pretty from the outside, ugly from the inside. A good governance facade can be introduced deliberately to mislead ob servers and stakeholders to cover
Kalle Moene, Tina Søreide
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The optimization of a truss facade [PDF]
WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, Vol 85, 2006 This paper presents the study of a facade. One of the aims of the designing team is the minimisation of the weight of the facade. Due to architectural constraints, the geometry of the facade is fixed to a highly statically indeterminate truss. Therefore, the minimisation of the weight of the facade is limited to a section optimisation.
Verbeeck, Benjamin +2 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Challenging Glass Conference ProceedingsThe stability of monolithic glass beams is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic materials such as steel, for which there are many equations of different forms which give similar results ...
Richard Green +3 more
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Shape Optimization of Isosceles Triangle Facades for Improving the Aerodynamics of a Tall Building [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid MechanicsThis study aims to investigate the simulation of wind impacts on a standard model of a tall building with a novel facades design. The tall building is established by the Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical Council (CAARC). A substantial volume of data has
M. Tabatabaei Malazi, K. Fakih
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New generation of fencing structures – dynamic / adaptive facades. Prospects of the use in Russia
Budownictwo o Zoptymalizowanym Potencjale Energetycznym, 2021 Based on a review and analyses of new technology and solutions in modern facade structures, a classification of a new generation of facades has been carried out.
Alexander Spiridonov +2 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham +1 more
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder +3 more
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Atmosphere, 2019 This paper reports estimated maintenance-cleaning costs, cost savings and cleaning interval increases for structural surfaces and windows in Europe obtainable by reducing the air pollution.
Terje Grøntoft +2 more
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Energy efficient facade lighting: Highlighting facade structures
Spool, 2014 SPOOL, Vol 1, No 2: energy innovation ...
Aries, Myriam +5 more
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