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Initiating Market Formation Through Local Policy Innovation: Plot Handover as a Driver for Circular Construction

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to circular construction suffers from uncertainties related to costs, market realities, supply, regulations and expertise using secondary materials in building projects. Uncertainties are large, and resolving them needs policy interventions.
Erkki‐Jussi Nylén, Tommi Halonen
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Antique wood preparation by inorganic salts treatment and its performance

Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología, 2023
onservation of historic timber structures is of great importance for cultural inheritance and community identity promotion. However, most of the current methods available for ancient architecture protection significantly affect their original appearance
Ming Sun, Chencheng Zhao, Courage Alorbu, Youming Yu, Lili Cai   +4 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 more
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Monitored Indoor Environmental Quality of a Mass Timber Office Building: A Case Study

Buildings, 2019
A broad range of building performance monitoring, sampling, and evaluation was conducted periodically after construction and spanning more than a year, for an occupied office building constructed using mass timber elements such as cross-laminated timber (
Jason Stenson, Suzanne L. Ishaq, Aurélie Laguerre, Andrew Loia, Georgia MacCrone, Ignace Mugabo, Dale Northcutt, Mariapaola Riggio, Andre Barbosa, Elliott T. Gall, Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg   +10 more
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Business and Governance Strategies for Circular Economy Valorization of Construction Timber: A Systematic Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The valorization of construction and demolition timber is essential to advancing circular economy objectives but remains constrained by fragmented organizational, network, and institutional practices. For firms in the construction sector, this represents a critical strategic adaptation challenge.
Reeko Watanabe, Martin Skitmore, Patrick S. W. Fong, Tingting Liu, Hong Guan, Benoit P. Gilbert, William Leggate   +6 more
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Comparison of Embodied Carbon Footprint of a Mass Timber Building Structure with a Steel Equivalent

Buildings
The main purpose of this study is to quantify and compare the embodied carbon (EC) from the materials used or designed to build the Adohi Hall, a residence building located on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, AR. It has been constructed
Mahboobeh Hemmati, Tahar Messadi, Hongmei Gu, Jacob Seddelmeyer, Moein Hemmati   +4 more
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Fire safety in timber buildings

, 2022
This chapter provides an overall description of the strategy for delivering fire safety in timber buildings. As in the design of all buildings, the goals are to provide life safety for occupants, safe access for firefighters and protection of affected ...
Dunn, Andrew,, Östman, Birgit,, Colleen Wade, Wade, Colleen,, Klippel, Michael,, Maluk, Cristian,, Andrew Dunn, Cristian Maluk, Andrew Buchanan, Just, Alar,, Michael Klippel, Alar Just, Buchanan, Andrew,, Birgit Östman   +13 more
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What Do We Know About Scope 3 Emissions in Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises? Mapping Current Knowledge and Advancing a Theory–Practice‐Oriented Framework

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although SMEs comprise over 90% of firms globally, research on their engagement with Scope 3 (value‐chain) greenhouse gas emissions remains limited. This PRISMA‐guided systematic review synthesises 49 SME‐relevant studies to develop a theory‐informed, practice‐oriented framework for more credible and sustained Scope 3 engagement.
Chidinma Uchendu, Okechukwu Okorie, Fatemeh Khosravi, Stuart Connop, Hebba Haddad, Mike Medas   +5 more
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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental progressive collapse response of post-and-beam mass timber buildings under an edge column removal scenario

, 2021
The mechanisms leading to the progressive collapse of reinforced concrete and steel buildings have been widely researched. However, limited studies were carried out on mass timber buildings, a structural system which is internationally becoming popular ...
Gunalan, S, Underhill, ID, Gilbert, BP, Guan, H, Lyu, C, Karampour, H   +5 more
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