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Deniz Besiktepe, Mehmet E. Ozbek and Rebecca A. Atadero
Condition information is essential to develop effective facility management (FM) strategies. Visual inspections and walk-through surveys are common practices of condition assessment (CA), generally resulting in qualitative and subjective outcomes such as...
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Zelong Xia, Hao Li, Yuehong Chen and Wenhao Yu
Assessing the access to fire service at an urban scale involves accounting for geographical impedance, demand, and supply, thus both spatial and non-spatial dimensions must be taken into account. Therefore, in this paper, an optimized two-step floating c...
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Tyler Donahue, Peter Krekorian, Luke Swift, Malcolm L. Spaulding, Chris Baxter and Craig Swanson
The STORMTOOLS Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI) has historically been used to assess the damage to residential and commercial structures from coastal flooding, including the effects of sea level rise (SLR) in RI. In the present study, CERI was ext...
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Udit Jain, Rajat Rastogi
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There are several guideline documents on pedestrian crossing warrants which are followed around the world to ensure safe pedestrian crossings. Peak hour pedestrian volume (P) and vehicular volume (V) are two most commonly used factors in these guidelines...
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Deqi Wang, Xuefeng Liu, Huan Li, Hai Chen, Xiaojuan Wang, Wei Li, Lianbao Cao, Jianlin Liu, Tingting Zhang and Bigui Wei
To investigate the quantitative relationship between the volume capture of rainfall and carbon emissions from bioretention facilities, this study introduces the concept of the carbon intensity of volume capture of rainfall. The influence of four key fact...
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Sekato Maremane, Gladys Belle and Paul Oberholster
Rivers in Africa have experienced dire pollution as a result of the poor management of wastewater effluent emanating from water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). An integrated wastewater resource recovery model was developed and applied to identify i...
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Tingbo Zhou, Zhengke Zhang, Yongqiang Tian, Zhongxiang Xi, Xiaomu Dou, Weidong Liu, Guobiao Zhang and Chao Gao
Aimed at addressing the difficult problems existing in extremely low speed calibration facilities for hot-wire anemometers, where calibration accuracy is often insufficient and vulnerable to the contamination from temperature and humidity discrepancies b...
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Mansoor Davoodi and Justin M. Calabrese
The optimal placement of healthcare facilities, including the placement of diagnostic test centers, plays a pivotal role in ensuring efficient and equitable access to healthcare services. However, the emergence of unique complexities in the context of a ...
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Haifeng Jin and Paul M. Goodrum
Selecting the appropriate temporary facilities is important for reducing cost and improving the productivity and safety of craft professionals in construction projects. However, the manual planning process for scaffolding systems is typically prone to in...
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Dae-Won Lee, Sung-Yong Oh, Jordan Jun Chul Park, Yun-Hwan Jung, Han-Jun Kim, Dong Mun Choi, Young-Ung Choi and Jeonghoon Han
Owing to the constant wind generated by the vast ocean, energy production from offshore wind farms (OWFs) plays an important role in the expansion of renewable energy. However, areas close to large wind farms are often left unutilized, and aquaculture fa...
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Hefang Deng, Kailong Xia, Jinfang Teng, Xiaoqing Qiang, Mingmin Zhu and Shaopeng Lu
The moving endwall has a great influence on the development and stability of axial compressor leakage flow. This paper presents a novel experimental facility with a high-speed moving endwall for studying axial compressor leakage flow. The uniqueness of t...
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Yiting Yin, Ailin Diao, Ziyi Li, Qi Wang and Shuguang Liu
In this paper, we designed an automatic ground cleaning machine for the dedusting rooms of chicken houses to replace the manual daily cleaning of dust particles and fluff. The machine mainly comprised a power system, control system, frame and walking str...
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Youngseok Song, Yoonkyung Park, Moojong Park and Jingul Joo
Low impact development (LID) facilities are designed to maintain water circulation functions on the surface and subsurface. LID facilities can be applied to various areas and are expected to have both short-term and long-term effects, making them widely ...
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Maria Cristina Collivignarelli, Francesca Maria Caccamo, Stefano Bellazzi, Maria Medina Llamas, Sabrina Sorlini and Chiara Milanese
Due to decreasing rainfall, drought is an environmental problem becoming even more alarming every year. The direct reuse of treated wastewater (WW), in compliance with current legislation, can be one of the applicable solutions to deal with water scarcit...
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Abbas Al-Refaie and Ahmad Al-Hawadi
This research developed a framework for electronic planning and management of facility services utilizing blockchain technology. In this framework, an electronic Facility Service Record (eFSR) in blockchain form was developed to manage and control servic...
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Bintang Noor Prabowo, Alenka Temeljotov Salaj and Jardar Lohne
Whether public sectors or private institutions, in-house or outsourced, building-level or urban-scale, the critical role of facility management (FM) is to support the core business activities of an organization in accomplishing its objectives. Through th...
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Maciej Wardach, Joanna Agnieszka Pawlowicz, Marta Kosior-Kazberuk and Janusz Ryszard Krentowski
Technological developments involving the implementation of modern measuring equipment and the digitalisation of civil engineering can contribute to extending the service life of buildings. Large-panel buildings constitute a large housing stock throughout...
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Mingkai Yu, Yingchun Fu and Wenkai Liu
Spatial equality of medical services refers to equal access to medical services in all regions. Currently, research on medical facility planning focuses mainly on efficiency, and less on methods for achieving medical facility access equality. In this stu...
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Juan Carlos Quiroz-Flores, Brenda Abásolo-Núñez, Daniella Suárez-Miñano and S. Nallusamy
This research article focuses on the ergonomic design of the workstations for the plastics industry plant to reduce the postural load that improves the workers? productivity and the operators? absenteeism due to musculoskeletal disorders. This article de...
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Wei Pan and Zhiqian Zhang
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, modular construction has been adopted for rapidly delivering healthcare facilities, but few have systematically explored the impacts of the pandemic and the contributions of modular construction. This paper aims to e...
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