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The Role of Business R&D in Environmental Sustainability: Evidence From the Nordic Countries

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As environmental sustainability becomes an increasingly important concern for advanced economies, the role of business innovation in relation to environmental outcomes has attracted increasing attention. This study examines the relationship between business enterprise research and development (BERD) and environmental sustainability in the ...
Abdullah Emre Caglar, Mehmet Ulug, Ismail Demirdag   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon intensity of mass timber materials: impacts of sourcing and transportation

Frontiers in Built Environment
Mass timber construction is widely considered a promising alternative construction method to reduce buildings’ total life-cycle carbon emissions because wood is a carbon sink. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, manufactured by gluing lumber layers with
Swaroop Atnoorkar, Omkar A. Ghatpande, Selam L. Haile, Heather E. Goetsch, Chioke B. Harris   +4 more
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Coherence Between Climate and Land Use Policies of the European Union, Brazil, and Indonesia: A Primer to Analyze Potential GHG Leakage

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incoherence between national land use policies may weaken climate mitigation efforts by creating conditions under which agricultural and forestry production and GHG emissions are displaced across borders (leakage). Coherence depends on constellations and prioritization of national policy aims in land use (production) and climate (conservation).
Heiner von Lüpke, Claudia Azevedo‐Ramos, Dwi Laraswati, Ahmad Maryudi, Christina Ayu, Nilo Wijaya, Rio Sopaheluwakan, Daniel Kübler, Richard Fischer   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The merits of varying forms of mass timber products for offsite and modular construction

Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit Proceedings, 2018
Mass timber is a family of Solid Laminate Timber Systems (SLTS) formed from smaller sections of timber connected by glue, mechanical fixings, moisture movement or a combination of methods. These products, which include Structural Composite Lumber, GluLam, Cross Lam, Nail Lam and Dowel Lam (or Brettstapel), have over the past two decades seen an ...
Robert Hairstans, Ryan Smith, Peter Wilson   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Biomass‐derived hydrochars as eco‐friendly adsorbents for wastewater treatment applications

Environmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.
Abstract Emerging organic pollutants (EOPs), such as diethyl phthalate (DEP), bisphenol A (BPA), and methylene blue (MB), are only partially removed in conventional wastewater treatment plants. This study assesses hydrochars produced by hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of spruce bark (SB), vine shoots (VSs), and wheat straw (WSs) for removing three ...
Emanuel Gheorghita Armanu, Sara Ribeirinho‐Soares, Christian Eberlein, Hermann J. Heipieper, Irina Volf, Olga C. Nunes, Olívia Salomé G. P. Soares   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Mass Timber Structures—Selected Issues in the Structural Shaping of Tall Buildings

Applied Sciences
The subject of this article is tall buildings with a load-bearing layout made of mass timber, erected between 2009 and 2025. The aim of the study is to introduce a typology and to systematise and synthesise knowledge concerning the spatial and material ...
Hanna Michalak, Karolina Michalak
doaj   +1 more source

Mass Timber - an introduction to solid laminate timber systems

, 2018
The past two decades have witnessed an extraordinary upsurge in the use of mass timber products and systems in construction - a global phenomenon driven by greater emphasis on the sustainable use of renewable resources and by significant technological ...
Hairstans, Robert
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Effects of Wall‐to‐Floor Interactions on Seismic Response of Platform‐Type CLT Buildings

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Platform‐type cross‐laminated timber (CLT) buildings feature discontinuous wall segments supported by CLT floors. In practice, CLT floors are often treated as rigid diaphragm, yet the wall‐to‐floor interactions (WFIs) associated with flexibility of floors remain insufficiently investigated during seismic performance assessment.
Chaoyue Zhang, Yuxin Pan, Jiawei Chen, Huifeng Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Case study houses 2.0 : Mass-customised multi-storey timber buildnings : Competitive high-rise timber structures from an architectural and engineering point of view

, 2012
The authors present a rule-based system that applies to the architecture of innovative tall timber buildings, and provide examples of interesting multi-storey timber buildings that can be constructed through the application of those rules.
Girhammar, Ulf Arne, Kaiser, Alex, Larsson, Magnus   +2 more
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Repeatability and Parasitic Out‐of‐Plane Motion in Controlled Rocking Structures With Cylindrical Columns: Results From Triaxial Shake Table Tests

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Self‐centering rocking structures outperform conventional ones since they show zero post‐earthquake damage and excellent recentering; however, their applications remain limited due to concerns that rocking is extremely sensitive and nonrepeatable. This paper investigates the repeatability and parasitic out‐of‐plane motion of controlled rocking
Antonios A. Katsamakas
wiley   +1 more source