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Kamel Mohamed Rahla, Ricardo Mateus and Luís Bragança
A growing concern is given to the environmental impacts caused by the construction industry. Waste generation, resource consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions are the main drawbacks of the rapid urbanization that the world is witnessing. As a response...
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Usha Iyer-Raniga
International pressures through global agreements such as the recent Paris agreement in 2015 have put stress on governments and industries to find lasting solutions for the built environment. The built environment was recognized as an important factor in...
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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Muntahith Orvin, Daryus Ahmed, Mahmudur Fatmi, Gordon Lovegrove
Pág. 1249?1274
This study develops vehicular and non-vehicular trip generation models for mid-rise, multi-family residential developments. A comparative analysis of observed and Instiutue of Transportation Engineers (ITE) trip rates suggests that ITE rates consistently...
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Satu-Maaria Sarjala, Anna Broberg, Ari Hynynen
As demonstrated in many earlier studies, the qualities of physical environment have great impacts on physical activity (PA) behavior. However, studying individual built-environment variables often produces contradictory effects between studies. To overco...
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Vaidas Petrulis, Brigita Tranaviciute and Paulius Tautvydas Laurinaitis
The architectural heritage directly related to the refugees from Europe who came to the USA as a result of World War II is still an under-researched topic. New post-war arrivals from the displaced persons camps resulted in a sizeable growth of the alread...
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Vian Ahmed , Sara Saboor, Fatima Ahmed Almarzooqi , Hessa Ahmed Alshamsi , Mariam Abdalla Alketbi , Fatema Ahmed Al marei
Sustainability has gained popularity and importance around the globe due to the ever-increasing effects of climate change and global warming on Earth. As of the 21st century, human endeavour has caused an enormous amount of damage to the environmental ec...
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Vian Ahmed , Sara Saboor, Fatima Ahmed Almarzooqi , Hessa Ahmed Alshamsi , Mariam Abdalla Alketbi , Fatema Ahmed Al marei
Sustainability has gained popularity and importance around the globe due to the ever-increasing effects of climate change and global warming on Earth. As of the 21st century, human endeavour has caused an enormous amount of damage to the environmental ec...
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Vian Ahmed , Sara Saboor, Fatima Ahmed Almarzooqi , Hessa Ahmed Alshamsi , Mariam Abdalla Alketbi , Fatema Ahmed Al marei
Sustainability has gained popularity and importance around the globe due to the ever-increasing effects of climate change and global warming on Earth. As of the 21st century, human endeavour has caused an enormous amount of damage to the environmental ec...
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Yousef Alhorr and Esam Elsarrag
It is well known that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) of countries resides at or close to the top of the global table of CO2 emissions per capita and its economy relies heavily on its fossil fuels. This provides a context for green building programs t...
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A. C. Hauptfleisch
Pág. 97 - 106
Globally the development of property and infrastructure, being part of the creation of ?xed investment and wealth, is taking place unabated. In support of this process is a multitude of highly skilled built environment professionals suc...
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A. C. Hauptfleisch
Pág. 97 - 106
Globally the development of property and infrastructure, being part of the creation of ?xed investment and wealth, is taking place unabated. In support of this process is a multitude of highly skilled built environment professionals suc...
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Etienne Saloux
This paper summarizes the results of a Special Issue focusing on the practical applications of model predictive control and other advanced control methods in the built environment. This Special Issue contains eleven publications and deals with various to...
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Kamiya Varshney, Maibritt Pedersen Zari and Nilesh Bakshi
Carbon sequestration (CS) and habitat provisioning (HP) through building-integrated vegetation are interlinked approaches that could potentially reduce climate change and biodiversity loss attributed to the built environment. However, a practical approac...
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Gaofeng Xu, Le Zhong, Fei Wu, Yin Zhang and Zhenwei Zhang
The impact of built environment features on tourists? walking behaviors has received growing attention. Although many researchers have observed the effects of micro-scale factors, the impact of culture-related factors on walking behaviors has been freque...
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Reshna Raveendran and Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul
Smart buildings deploying 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) are viewed as the next sustainable solution that can be seamlessly integrated in all sectors of the built environment. The benefits are well advertised and range from inducing wellness and mon...
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Mohammad Nyme Uddin, Hsi-Hsien Wei, Hung Lin Chi and Meng Ni
Energy consumption in buildings depends on several physical factors, including its physical characteristics, various building services systems/appliances used, and the outdoor environment. However, the occupants? behavior that determines and regulates th...
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The Special Issue on “Human Factors in Green Building” addresses the design of indoor environment quality for users’ needs. The collected papers cover various building types and the research highlights the different needs of users. In w...
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Ahmed Ali Bindajam,Nashwan Abdulkarem Al-Ansi
Pág. 119 - 125
Within the long history, Saudi Arabia has a diverse range of heritage buildings and sites which still exist until today. Palace of the Emirate in Qebah town is one of the most significant historical buildings which were built by order of King Abdul Aziz ...
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