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Sustainable Construction—Technological Aspects of Ecological Wooden Buildings
Energies, 2022 Wooden construction constitutes a specific branch of the building industry that focuses on high-quality materials, a developed sense of aesthetics connected with comfort and functionality, and concern for ecology and durability. This type of construction
Anna Stepien +5 more
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Transformation and acceleration of the construction supply chain through smart factories
Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2022 The European building stock is in high need of refurbishment due to its contribution to excessive global energy consumption. In the North-Sea Region (NSR) alone there are 22 million houses built between 1950 and 1985 with an annual CO2 emission of 79 ...
Bennet Zander +5 more
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Adoption of prefabricated housing–the role of country context [PDF]
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2016 This exploratory paper examines secondary sources to develop hypotheses for future testing in quantitative research, around the question 'How do housing industry contexts in different countries influence the adoption of prefabricated housing construction?' This is a management study of innovation adoption.
Steinhardt, Dale, Manley, Karen
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Challenges of prefabricated housing in China
Architecture and the Built Environment, 2021 Recently, the implementation of prefabricated housing (PH) has become prevalent in China to achieve sustainability while ensuring green construction, innovative products, and higher quality. However, numerous challenges arise, such as the overrun costs, inexperienced workers, and the inefficient management process. High transaction costs (TCs) occur in
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.We report a fully wireless, circuit‐free neural stimulator built on a millimetric magneto‐mechano‐electric (MME) cantilever transducer (3 × 10 × 5 mm) with a barium titanate (BTO) piezoelectric ceramic core. Under low‐frequency alternating magnetic fields, the MME cantilever mechanically oscillates, inducing stress on the BTO element and thereby ...
Yijing Wang +7 more
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Platform Thinking as a Catalyst for Circular Innovation in Low‐ and Medium‐Tech Industries
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing pressures to replace linear with circular models challenge organisations to innovate continuously and to absorb new knowledge. While platform thinking has been examined as an enabler of innovation in high‐tech industries, its relevance in low‐ and medium‐tech industries, like construction, remains underexplored.
Julia Köhler +3 more
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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 +6 more
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Circular Innovations in Complex Systems: A Blueprint of Four Design Archetypes
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular innovations (CI), defined as the redesign of products, services or practices to minimise waste, reduce resource use and regenerate natural systems, are essential for advancing the circular economy. Despite growing recognition, their deployment in systems of linked parts with unpredictable interactions (complex systems) remains limited
Sophie Führer +2 more
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STUDY ON MODULAR HOUSES DESIGN
Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics, 2019 In the field of civil engineering, in the last period emerged and developed the idea of modular constructions, which is in consensus with the alert rhythm of the present times that we are going through, while responding to the requirement of economic ...
Carmen MARZA +2 more
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Civil Engineering Design, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 9-22, March 2025.Abstract Blockchain technology is a digital decentralized data ledger recording transactions in an encrypted format. Its implementation can potentially hold significant advantages for the built environment, particularly in manufacturing and building product usage aligned with Building Information Modeling (BIM). This paradigm shift toward decentralized
Aileen Pfeil +2 more
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