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David Ojimaojo Ebiloma, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa and Chimay Anumba
The COVID-19 pandemic that recently broke forth revealed the waning state of a considerable number of healthcare facilities, especially in unindustrialized territories. This is of great concern, and it has become pertinent to identify determinants of eff...
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Giammaria Gabbianelli, Daniele Perrone, Emanuele Brunesi and Ricardo Monteiro
The importance of non-structural elements in performance-based seismic design of buildings is presently widely recognized. These elements may significantly affect the functionality of buildings even for low seismic intensities, in particular for the case...
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Katia Jiménez Mejía, María del Mar Barbero-Barrera and Manuel Rodríguez Pérez
Construction materials and systems for the thermal building envelope have played a key role in the improvement of energy efficiency in buildings. Urban heat islands together with the upcoming rising global temperature demand construction solutions that a...
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Nor Malyana Samsuddin,Roshana Takim,Abdul Hadi Nawawi
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Hospitals are themselves vulnerable to numerous types of disasters and can get damaged risking the lives of human being. To a certain extent, despite of hard resilience (structural and non-structural), human behavior is one of the contributing fact...
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Olumide Adenuga, Abayomi Ibiyemi
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This study examines the state of maintenance of public hospitalbuildings in Southwest Nigeria, and in the process identifi es thesignifi cant difference(s) in the operational state of Federal andState-owned public hospitals within the study area. In achi...
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Olumide Adenuga, Abayomi Ibiyemi
Pág. 51 - 60
This study examines the state of maintenance of public hospitalbuildings in Southwest Nigeria, and in the process identifi es thesignifi cant difference(s) in the operational state of Federal andState-owned public hospitals within the study area. In achi...
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Ammar Al-Sharaa, Mastura Adam, Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin, Ameer Alhasan and Riyadh Mundher
The difficulty of finding one?s way in a complex structure has been a long-standing issue of many buildings with highly institutionalized functions. This has been especially observed in hospital buildings as an issue that can cause various adverse outcom...
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Honglian Li, Li Shang, Chengwang Li and Jiaxiang Lei
Climate change and urban heat island effects affect the energy consumption of buildings in urban heat islands. In order to meet the requirements of engineering applications for detailed daily design parameters for air conditioning, the 15-year summer met...
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Silvano Cortesi, Christian Vogt and Michele Magno
IPS is a crucial technology that enables medical staff and hospital management to accurately locate and track persons or assets inside medical buildings. Among other technologies, readily available BLE can be exploited to achieve an energy-efficient and ...
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Paolo Valdiserri, Silvia Cesari, Maddalena Coccagna, Pasquale Romio and Sante Mazzacane
Hospitals require the highest energy demands in non-residential buildings. They provide healthcare 24/7/365 and, at the same time, they ensure indoor air quality, thermal comfort and sterility. However, several studies reveal that high indoor temperature...
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Jacopo Gaspari, Kristian Fabbri and Linda Gabrielli
The scientific literature offers a wide range of studies evidencing the progress done in the retrofit actions dealing with the current building stock; however, renovations of hospitals are still an open field of research due to their typical complexity t...
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Ahmad Ezanee Hashim,Hasnizan Aksah,Mohamad Sufian Hasim,Siti Aida Samikon
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Health care and hospital buildings are among the most complex construction in the built environment which comprises a broad range of utility, services, and functional units. The objectives of the study are to review the built environment performance leve...
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Setareh Ghaychi Afrouz, Alireza Farzampour, Zahra Hejazi and Masoud Mojarab
The Tehran metropolitan area is extremely vulnerable to earthquakes due to the location of its active faults and its dense population. Assessing the probable damage of a high magnitude earthquake on buildings and facilities relies on a precise structural...
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Reem Ahmed, Tarek Zayed and Fuzhan Nasiri
Healthcare facilities are constantly deteriorating due to tight budgets allocated to the upkeep of building assets. This entails the need for improved deterioration modeling of such buildings in order to enforce a predictive maintenance approach that dec...
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Donglian Gu, Zhe Zheng, Pengju Zhao, Linlin Xie, Zhen Xu and Xinzheng Lu
The outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in severe pressure on the existing medical infrastructure in China. Several Chinese cities began to construct temporary hospitals for the centralized treatment of COVID-19 patients. The harmful exhaust air from the outle...
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Rizwan Khan, Syed Hassan Farooq and Muhammad Usman
Frequent terrorist activities, the use of vehicle bomb blasts and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have brought forth the task of protection against blasts as a priority issue for engineers. Terrorists mostly target the areas where human and economic ...
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