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Digital twins for green roofs and facade inspection using drones and multi-modal foundation models [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesGreen roofs and facades are a nature-based way to improve the climate of buildings. However, they also add additional maintenance effort for keeping the plants healthy.
Krause Nils Soeren, Ploennigs Joern
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EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017 In the ceramic industry and in many sectors, clay minerals are widely used. In earthen construction technique, clay plays a crucial role in the processing.
Landrou Gnanli +2 more
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Buildings, 2022 Conventional hospital facility management (FM) focuses on reasonably allocating various resources to support core healthcare services from the perspectives of the FM department and hospital.
Xiang Xie +6 more
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Sustainable construction: construction and demolition waste reconsidered [PDF]
Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, 2009 Construction activity in Europe has increased substantially in the past decade. Likewise, there has also been a commensurate rise in the generation of construction and demolition waste (C&DW). This, together with the fact that in many European countries the rate of recycling and reuse of C&DW is still quite low has engendered a serious ...
Río Merino, Mercedes del +2 more
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Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2021 The accessibility of suburban and rural areas presents existential challenges for resident communities. Municipality inhabitants with little access to public transport and structurally weak regions often work in distant urban agglomerations, with long ...
Vanessa Miriam Carlow +4 more
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Project Leadership and Society, 2022 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic narrative that has continuously gained attention from policy makers, practitioners and academics over the last few decades.
Natalya Sergeeva, Evangelia Kapetanaki
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Collaborating constructively for sustainable biotechnology [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2019 AbstractTackling the pressing sustainability needs of society will require the development and application of new technologies. Biotechnology, emboldened by recent advances in synthetic biology, offers to generate sustainable biologically-based routes to chemicals and materials as alternatives to fossil-derived incumbents.
Nicholas E. Matthews +4 more
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Sustainability or sustainable infrastructure? Using sustainability discourse to construct a motorway [PDF]
Local Environment, 2020 WestConnex is a 33km, A$16.8bn motorway under construction in Sydney. It is promoted by the state government as an example of excellent ‘sustainable infrastructure’. We explore the use of sustainability discourse to explain how a motorway corporation, established by a state government committed to building infrastructure that could later be privatized,
Phil McManus, Graham Haughton
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Analysis of Influencing Characteristics of Biochars for Ammonium Adsorption
Applied Sciences, 2022 This article summarizes and performs a systematic analysis using experimental results from recent research on ammonium recovery from aqueous sources using biochar.
Aubrey Shenk +3 more
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Sustainability in Construction
The Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. Fascicle IX, Metallurgy and Materials Science, 2023 The main theme of this work is the sustainability of buildings and their relevance for sustainable development in Romania and Europe in the current context of orientation towards sustainable augmentation, minimizing the negative impact on the environment.A sustainable building must be designed to use the necessary resources: energy, water, and ...
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