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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon, M. G. Elsinga, J. S. C. M. Hoekstra, M. Sunikka‐Blank, R. Galvin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

One Water strategies for New Braunfels Utilities [PDF]

, 2019
INTRODUCTION: In February of 2017, Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) and the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (CGMF) initiated a multi-year project that aims to understand how water utilities in Texas cities can apply ...
Ashmore, Jacqueline, Benzaoui, Josef, Grinshpun, Michael   +2 more
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AI‐driven circular economy optimization in waste management: A review of current evidence

Environmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.
Abstract The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in waste management has the potential to significantly advance circular economy objectives by enhancing efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing resource recovery. However, realising these benefits depends on addressing significant technical, economic, and systemic ...
David Bamidele Olawade, Ram Narayan Yadav, James O Ijiwade, Ojima Z. Wada   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Expert View on Data and Modelling for Planning Domestic Retrofit

Buildings
The transition to Net Zero rests partly on the widespread adoption of energy-efficient retrofit measures for domestic dwellings. The scale of retrofit efforts is extensive, as up to 80% of the UK’s domestic housing stock for 2050 has already been built ...
Marianna J. Coulentianos, Danielle Abbey, Christy Tsz So, Wil O. C. Ward   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The economic impact of seismic retrofit on heritage reinforced concrete buildings [PDF]

Urbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2014
Groups of actors (architects, engineers, inhabitants, investors) put different priorities in interventions on heritage buildings. Seismic retrofit can be done at different levels, from avoiding collapse up to assuring immediate postearthquake ...
Maria Boştenaru Dan
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Low‐Cost Friction‐Based Force‐Limiting Connection With Reduced Sensitivity to Machining Tolerances and Accelerated Repairability

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel yet practical friction‐based structural component design for low‐damage earthquake‐resistant structures. The proposed connection design is based on a conventional slotted‐bolted configuration with the novelty being the use of loose steel washer plates to establish the friction‐sliding interface.
Kaixin Chen, Georgios Tsampras, Chung‐Che Chou, Huang‐Zuo Lin, Chi‐Jeng Wu, Alvaro Córdova, Chia‐Ming Uang, Shih‐Ho Chao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding Our Way to a Sustainable Recovery: Making Commercial Building Retrofit Jobs into Quality Jobs for Our Communities [PDF]

, 2012
This paper provides some background on the opportunities created by widespread retrofitting in the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) industry and the innovative policies that municipalities have implemented to give building owners incentives to upgrade their ...

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Seismic Assessment Procedure for Exterior Reinforced Concrete Beam–Column Joints With Slab and Transverse Beams

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a capacity‐based assessment procedure for beam–column (b–c) joints of reinforced concrete frames with floor slabs and transverse beams. The procedure extends a previously proposed assessment methodology for determining the hierarchy of strengths and the sequence of events in symmetrically reinforced planar b–c joints.
Patricio Quintana Gallo, Umut Akguzel, Weng Y. Kam, Stefano Pampanin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Modeling Assumptions for Predicting Structural Damage and Train Derailment Under Earthquake Loading

Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid development of new railway networks and the aging of existing infrastructure in seismic‐prone regions continue to motivate the need for efficient methods to simulate the dynamic behavior of coupled train track structure systems. While detailed train–structure interaction (TSI) models can capture complex mechanisms, they are often too
Miguel A. Gomez, Matthew J. DeJong
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary Retrofitting

ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
AfterLearnER (After Learning Evolutionary Retrofitting) consists in applying evolutionary optimization to refine fully trained machine learning models by optimizing a set of carefully chosen parameters or hyperparameters of the model, with respect to some actual, exact, and hence possibly non-differentiable error signal, performed on a subset of the ...
Mathurin Videau, Mariia Zameshina, Alessandro Leite, Laurent Najman, Marc Schoenauer, Olivier Teytaud   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources