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Sustainable solutions for low-cost building: Material innovations for Assam-type house in North-East India

Case Studies in Construction Materials
Assam-type houses, traditionally constructed using bamboo, timber, and mud, have long served as climate-adapted, affordable Building in North-East India.
Salim Barbhuiya, Dibyendu Adak, Comingstarful Marthong, John Forth   +3 more
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Alignment of Agile and Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) Principles in Systems Engineering

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organizations have consistently sought faster and more efficient methods for producing and delivering products. Agile principles offer essential guidance for shaping their policies and practices. The Agile Manifesto (AM) outlines 12 core principles for guiding software development but can also be applied in other contexts.
Terry Plonsky, Daniel R. Herber
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructing the Historical Layers of a Colonial Prefabricated Wooden House in Old Calabar (1886–2012): Evidence-Based Workflow for Architectural Restoration

Buildings
The importation of prefabricated buildings into colonies was a prevalent practice during the British colonial expansionist venture. However, in post-colonial Nigeria today, many of these prefabricated houses have either been largely modified or have ...
Obafemi A. P. Olukoya
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Long‐Term Outcomes of Omniflow II and BioIntegral Xenografts for Open Aortic Reconstruction in Predominantly Infected Settings: A Multicenter Cohort Study

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Evidence surrounding conduit selection for open in situ aortic reconstruction remains limited, particularly for xenograft use in infected settings. We evaluated long‐term outcomes after open aortic and aorto‐iliac reconstruction using BioIntegral No‐React bovine grafts and Omniflow II biosynthetic grafts in patients unsuitable for autologous vein ...
Tijmen W. Kraai, Eline I. Reinders Folmer, Barzi Gareb, David J. Liesker, Ben R. Saleem, Clark J. Zeebregts, Vascular Xenograft Research Group   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese Prefabricated Housing Manufacturers

Encyclopedia
Japanese prefabricated housing manufacturers have gained international recognition for their innovative approaches to the whole design process, ranging from initial design to innovative cutting-edge technologies, state-of-the-art automated production lines, meticulous workmanship, and mass customisation. In this entry, three manufacturers (Daiwa House,
Hing-Wah Chau, Elmira Jamei, Nitin Muttil, Masa Noguchi   +3 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstruction of the First Prefabricated Series in Pribaikalie and Renovation of the Five-Storey Houses in Moscow

Проект Байкал, 2017
The active discussion of the program of renovation of the prefabricated housing stock in Moscow has caused reconsideration of the solutions for the regional problem in the towns of Pribaikalie.
Tatyana Pavlova, Yuri Berzhinsky
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STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina, Vuong Kha Tu, Tran Kim Bao, Ly Quoc Dang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Image of the Czech Housing Estate in Selected Films from the Socialist Era

Adeptus
The article concerns the representation of the space of Czech housing estates in selected films from the socialist era: Domy z panelů [Prefabricated Houses] (Jiří Menzel, 1959), Moderní byt [Modern House] (Jan Moravec, 1971) and Panelstory [Prefab Story]
Adam Zygmunt
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of material, prosthesis height, and aging on the fracture strength of additively and subtractively manufactured implant‐supported cantilevered prostheses

Journal of Prosthodontics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose This study aimed to evaluate the inherent and after cyclic loading fracture strength of implant‐supported cantilevered fixed prostheses fabricated from recently introduced additively manufactured (AM) and subtractively manufactured (SM) materials, considering variations in prosthesis height.
Mustafa Borga Dönmez, Paola Maldonado, Çiğdem Kahveci, Ahmet Orgev, Marta Revilla‐León, Burak Yilmaz, Gülce Cakmak   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source