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Industrialized Construction and Sustainability: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Buildings, 2023
The industrialized model of construction is gaining more and more prominence in the specialized literature and in discussion forums wherein the different economic, social, and environmental advantages it offers compared with the traditional model are ...
Guillermo Sotorrío Ortega, Alfonso Cobo Escamilla, José Antonio Tenorio Ríos   +2 more
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Risk Assessment in the Industry Chain of Industrialized Construction: A Chinese Case Study [PDF]

Buildings, 2022
The industry chain of industrialized construction is a key strategy for promoting the sustainable performance of China’s construction industry. Its risk identification is the fundamental step to promote the development of the industry chain.
Fanrong Ji, Jili Shi, Tianle Zhu, Xiancun Hu   +3 more
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Industrialized Construction: A Systematic Review of Its Benefits and Guidelines for the Development of New Constructive Solutions Applied in Sustainable Projects

Applied Sciences
In the scientific literature, it is highlighted that industrialized construction has significant comparative advantages over traditional construction, primarily in four indicators: (i) cost reduction, (ii) time reduction, (iii) increased energy ...
Carlos Rojas-Herrera, Aner Martínez-Soto, Constanza Avendaño-Vera, Rodrigo Cancino Carrasco, Natalia Reyes Barbato   +4 more
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Wave-Current Loads on a Super-Large-Diameter Pile in Deep Water: An Experimental Study

Applied Sciences, 2023
Recently, the diameters and construction water depths of the pile foundations of planned and newly built sea-crossing bridges have been increasing greatly.
Chenkai Hong, Zhongda Lyu, Fei Wang, Zhuo Zhao, Lei Wang   +4 more
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Energy and indoor thermal performance analysis of a glazed façade high-rise building under various Nordic climatic conditions

Energy Reports, 2023
Research has shown that glazed buildings can have higher energy use and are more prone to overheating than other types of buildings. However, few studies have explored the performance of glazed buildings in cold climates.
Shimantika Bhattacharjee, Sofia Lidelöw, Farshid Shadram   +2 more
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Simulation-Based Tracking Test and Optimization of Large-Tonnage Box Girder Transport with Trolley on an Erected Bridge

Advances in Civil Engineering, 2022
In the construction of large-tonnage box girder, the construction load of box girder transport is generally greater than the operating load in highway industry; therefore, it is a crucial task to carry out accurate simulation and optimization on bearing ...
Lei Wang, Zhong-da Lv, Ai-min Xu, Fei Wang, Xin-long Dong   +4 more
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Influence of collaborative relationships on the performance of design-construction efficiency of industrialized construction

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2023
The poor collaboration among the main actors in the construction has become a challenge for the low performance of the design-construction efficiency (DCE).
Yidnekachew Tesmamma Daget, Hong Zhang
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Immersive Industrialized Construction Environments for Energy Efficiency Construction Workforce

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is actively developing and testing Immersive Industrialized Construction Environments (IICE) for construction automation and worker-machine interaction to investigate possible solutions and increase workforce ...
Ankur Podder, Kenny Gruchalla, Nicholas Brunhart-Lupo, Shanti Pless, Mauro Sica, Paolo Lacchin   +5 more
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A model to reduce earthmoving impacts

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 2020
Meeting increasingly ambitious carbon regulations in the construction industry is particularly challenging for earthmoving operations due to the extensive use of heavy-duty diesel equipment.
Hassanean S. H. Jassim, Jan Krantz, Weizhuo Lu, Thomas Olofsson   +3 more
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Improving Life Cycle Sustainability and Profitability of Buildings through Optimization: A Case Study

Buildings, 2022
Building developers are continuously seeking solutions to increase saleable/rentable floor area and thus the profitability of investments, especially in large/dense cities where the real estate/rental values are high and shortage of available land ...
Farshid Shadram, Jani Mukkavaara
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