Life-cycle assessment of buildings: a Review [PDF]
, 2009 Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is one of various management tools for evaluating environmental concerns. This paper reviews LCA from a buildings perspective.
Menzies, Gillian Frances +5 more
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Interaction of Lean and Building Information Modeling in Construction [PDF]
, 2010 Lean construction and Building Information Modeling are quite different initiatives, but both are having profound impacts on the construction industry. A rigorous analysis of the myriad specific interactions between them indicates that a synergy exists ...
Koskela, L +11 more
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Concept development for a bionically-mathematically inspired greened cooling cladding.
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2016 This paper deals with the greening of claddings and the cooling of buildings from the perspective of a bionic scientist or an industrial designer. Reflections on a new building cover shall early enough show an approach to the containment of future ...
Michael Johann Paar +1 more
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High resilience prefabricated systems for the industrial buildings in seismic areas
Techne, 2018 This article deals with the topic of seismic vulnerability of single-storey industrial buildings, proposing the design of a new system able to support the movement of the load-bearing structure during earthquakes.
Eleonora Chesi +3 more
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Numerical Model and Experimental Analysis of the Thermal Behavior of Electric Radiant Heating Panels
Applied Sciences, 2018 Electric radiant heating panels are frequently selected during the design phase of residential and industrial heating systems, especially for retrofit of existing buildings, as an alternative to other common heating systems, such as radiators or air ...
Giovanni Ferrarini +6 more
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Methodological foundations of assessment of the impact of State construction supervision during reprofiling big urban areas [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The stage of construction is one of the main compulsory periods of the life cycle in the formation of construction end-products – capital construction projects of various functional purposes.
Tokarsky Andrey +4 more
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Energy-Saving Technologies in Design and Construction of Residential Buildings and Industrial Facilities in the Far North [PDF]
, 2019 The article discusses the main problems of energy saving and special features of design, construction and operation of residential buildings and industrial structures in extreme climatic conditions of the Northern territories. The impact of permafrost, seasonal thawing of soils and low bearing capacity of thawed soils on the choice of ways of ...
Maria Berseneva +6 more
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Organizational and technological systems for renovation of production facilities [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The article describes the stage of construction - one of the main compulsory periods of the life cycle in the formation of construction end-products. It is at this particular stage that actual reliability and safety indicators of capital construction ...
Topchiy Dmitriy
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Effect of column base strength on steel portal frames in fire [PDF]
, 2012 In the UK, the design of steel portal frame buildings in fire is based on the Steel Construction Institute (SCI) design method, in which fire protection needs only be provided to the columns, provided that the column bases are designed to resist an ...
Comlekci, Tugrul +5 more
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Energy Procedia, 2017 While a number of domains readily employ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with infrared cameras (IR-UAVs), the IR and UAV research directions still need to be bridged in the construction domain. Our research aims to develop a protocol for IR-UAV flights to survey building thermography.
Entrop, A.G., Vasenev, A.
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