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The Comprehensive Comparison of Thermal and Physical-Mechanical Properties of the Recycled Rubber and Plastic Roofing Tiles versus Roofing Tiles Made with Different Traditional Materials

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, 2018
The objectives of this research were to estimate the thermal transmittance and some physical-mechanical properties of a housing cover built with roofing tiles made from recycled plastics and rubber and compare them with three other traditional solutions ...
Rosana Gaggino   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Users’ Legibility on a Proposed Affordable Township for B40 and M40 Income Fishing Community at Kuala Kedah, Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
This study highlights traditional towns and settlements of the fishing communities and their proposed township design. It has proposed one site for the design at Kuala Kedah for the resettlement programme of the fishermen community administered by the ...
Rong Ooi Yong   +3 more
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Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Like many other assets, housing prices are quite volatile relative to observable changes in fundamentals. If we are going to understand boom-bust housing cycles, we must incorporate housing supply. In this paper, we present a simple model of housing bubbles which predicts that places with more elastic housing supply have fewer and shorter bubbles, with
Glaeser, Edward L   +2 more
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The influence of mineralogical composition and alkali reactivity for utilization of some Egyptian crushed granites as a concrete aggregate

open access: yesJournal of Building Materials and Structures, 2023
Egyptian Eastern Desert is rich in many areas that contain granites masses throughout the geological era; some of them show good characteristics of the rock hardness, durability, density and mineralogy.
Maged El-fakharany   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Mechanical Properties of Foamed Concrete containing Un-processed Blast Furnace Slag

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2014
For many years, supplementary cementation materials have been utilized as cement or filler replacements to heighten the properties of concrete. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the effects of un-processed blast furnace slag (RS) on the ...
Awang H.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water Supply Scheme in Morotai Island

open access: yesJournal of the Civil Engineering Forum, 2020
Morotai Island is designated as one of the National Tourism Strategic Area, and has increased demand for pure water. It is known as a dry area where water is difficult to obtain, and therefore, it is necessary to prepare a supply scheme to meet the ...
Wulan Seizarwati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brass Art: A house within a house within a house within a house [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Writing in Creative Practice, 2014
Abstract Performances from Brass Art (Lewis, Mojsiewicz, Pettican), captured at the Freud Museum, London, using Kinect laser scanning and Processing, reveal an intimate response to spaces and technologies. ‘A house within a house within a house within a house’ links historical and cultural representations of the double, the unconscious ...
Lewis, C, Mojsiewicz, K, Pettican, A
openaire   +2 more sources

Using Big Data in Policy Evaluations: the Troubled Families Programme

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Background The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government have carried out one of the biggest data linkage exercises in government in order to evaluate the impact of the Troubled Families Programme.
Naomi Knight   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2013
AbstractThis article adds historical and geographical specificity to the link between city building and laboratorization processes. It does so by way of the example of housing in mid‐twentieth‐centuryBritain. Housing provision at this time saw an intensification of the relationship between architectural design and science by way of the emergent field ...
Jacobs, Jane, Strebel, Ignaz
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