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Building development and roads: implications for the distribution of stone curlews across the Brecks [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Substantial new housing and infrastructure development planned within England has the potential to conflict with the nature conservation interests of protected sites.
A Benítez-López +39 more
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Built Heritage, 2023 Characterising and sourcing natural stones are essential for not only understanding the historical information carried by heritage buildings and cultural heritage sites, but also providing necessary data for restoration and conservations.
Xiuwei Guo +3 more
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The Global Warming Potential of Building Materials: An Application of Life Cycle Analysis in Nepal [PDF]
, 2017 open6siThis paper analyzes the global-warming potential of materials used to construct the walls of 3 building types—traditional, semimodern, and modern—in Sagarmatha National Park and Buffer Zone in Nepal, using the life-cycle assessment approach ...
Francesca Pierobon +5 more
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Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2020 The residential building typology of Stone in Mud Mortar (SMM) masonry contributed significantly to the seismic losses caused by the 2015 Nepalese seismic sequence, also known as the 2015 Gorkha earthquake.
Rohit Kumar Adhikari, D. D’Ayala
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A feasibility study of post-tensioned stone for cladding [PDF]
, 2013 As contemporary building technology evolves to meet the challenges of increasing industrialisation and prefabrication of the construction process the demand for more efficiency also increases.
Pedreschi, Remo
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Generating Sacred Space beyond Architecture: Stacked Stone Pagodas in Sixth-Century Northern China
Religions, 2021 A large number of stone blocks, stacked up in diminishing size to form pagodas, was discovered in northern China, primarily eastern Gansu and southeastern Shanxi.
Jinchao Zhao
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The effects of mortar on the dynamic thermal performances of stone masonries
Tema, 2021 In Italy, an important percentage of historical buildings was built with stone masonry. It is necessary to correctly understand its thermal behaviour in order to evaluate suitable retrofit interventions.
Giuseppe Desogus
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Landscapes, Settlements and Traditional Housing in Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2021 A change in livelihood and folk architecture is an indicator of cultural landscape transformation, which is often the result of changes occurring in the natural and socio-political realms.
Maisuradze Roman +2 more
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NATURAL BUILDING STONE IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RENOVATION OF THE ZAGREB CATHEDRAL
Rudarsko-geološko-naftni Zbornik, 2023 Natural stone has been used since the dawn of civilization as a construction material for buildings that are historical and cultural buildings and monuments. The Zagreb Cathedral is an example of such a historical and cultural building and data regarding
Ana Maričić +3 more
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Characterization of sandstones of eastern Slovakia
Selected Scientific Papers: Journal of Civil Engineering, 2019 The main building material in the past was stone. Geological composition influenced the choice and type of building stone, which was used for the construction of the buildings.
Jaroš Pavol, Vertaľ Marián
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