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Artistic and Engineering Design of Platform-Based Production Systems: A Study of Swedish Architectural Practice

Buildings, 2018
Research on platform-based production systems for house-building has focused on production and manufacturing issues. The aim of this research is to explore how the architectural design process contributes to the industrialised house-building industry ...
Gustav Jansson, Emma Viklund, Thomas Olofsson   +2 more
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Comparative analysis of form-stable phase change material integrated concrete panels for building envelopes

Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2023
Phase change materials (PCM) can reduce energy consumption and improve thermal comfort in buildings. However, they have some limitations in integrating into construction materials. The significant difficulty is the selection of suitable porous materials,
Dileep Kumar, Morshed Alam, Jay Sanjayan, Muhammad Harris   +3 more
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The contribution of ecological footprinting to planning policy development: using REAP to evaluate policies for sustainable housing construction [PDF]

, 2008
The complexity of the sustainable-development policy goal is such that policy makers are searching for tools to enable them to evaluate and develop policy directions.
Nye, M, Rydin, Y
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South African Construction Craftsmen’s Perceptions of Effective Personnel Management Practices [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2019
The recent skill shortage within South Africa has raised the need for proper management of the available craftsmen in the construction industry, as a large portion of work executed within the industry is done by this set of workers.
Aghimien Douglas, Aigbavboa Clinton, Oke Ayodeji, Makhwathana Mbavhalelo   +3 more
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Achieving sustainable construction in the developing countries Of Southeast Asia [PDF]

, 2006
Sustainable construction is a way for the building industry to move towards achieving sustainable development, taking into account environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues.
Arman Ali, Zainab, Othman, Mohamed Zahry, Shafii, Faridah   +2 more
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Sustainable earth walls to meet the building regulations [PDF]

, 2004
The thermal conductivity and diffusivity of un-fired clay bricks, a straw clay mixture and straw bales have been measured using a thermal probe technique, with an iterative method for data analysis. The steady-state air-to-air thermal transmittance, or U-
Allen, Goodhew, Goodhew, Incropera, Richard Griffiths, Steven Goodhew, Szokolay   +6 more
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Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga, Angela Lopez‐Cortes, Reem Al‐Saadi, Suzanne Tugnait, Kristina Dzhuma, Catriona Duncan, Gordan Vujanic, Tanzina Chowdhury, Claudia Allemani, Michel P. Coleman, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Renal Tumour Special Interest Group, Hugh Bishop, Anthony McCarthy, Pamela Kearns, Helen Rees, Amos Burke, Meriel Jenney, Jane Pears, Hamish Wallace, Milind Ronghe, Tanzina Chowdhury, Susan Picton, Emma Ross, Lisa Howell, Bernadette Brennan, Gail Halliday, Richard Grundy, Shaun Wilson, Sucheta Vaidya, Daniel Yeomanson, Jessica Bate, Vesna Pavasovic, Jessica Bate, Sabine Irtan, Jesper Brok, Minou Oostveen, Kristina Dzhuma, Mark Weeks, Richard Williams, Mark Powis, Max Pachl, Bruce Okoye, Naima Smeulders, Gordan Vujanic, Oystein Olsen, Tom Watson, Susan Shelmerdine, Dan Saunders, Angela Lopez-Cortes, Taryn Treger, Tom Jackson, Suzanne Tugnait, Lisa Howell, Tanzina Chowdhury, Sam Behjati, Angela Polanco   +56 more
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Bibliometric mapping of MCDM methods in AEC industry: identifying trends for sustainable development

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
This study investigates integrating multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches to improve sustainability in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Through a systemic literature analysis done through the Scopus database and
Thilina Ganganath Weerakoon, Zenonas Turskis, Jūratė Šliogerienė   +2 more
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Pioneering Construction Materials through Prototypological Research

Biomimetics, 2019
The article at hand follows the understanding that future cities cannot be built the same way as existing ones, inducing a radical paradigm shift in how we produce and use materials for the construction of our habitat in the 21st century.
Felix Heisel, Dirk E. Hebel
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Digital technologies and healthcare architects' wellbeing in the National Health Service Estate of England during the pandemic

Frontiers in Medical Technology, 2023
IntroductionUK Built Environment is currently undergoing a digital transformation, as is happening in the National Health Service (NHS) of England. In this paper, the focus was on the intersection of the two sectors and specifically the potential digital
Evangelia Chrysikou, Eleni Papadonikolaki, Eleftheria Savvopoulou, Eleni Tsiantou, Christian Alexander Klinke   +4 more
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