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Sara Bredal Ingebretsen, Erlend Andenæs, Lars Gullbrekken and Tore Kvande
Harsh climatic conditions in the Nordic countries are being worsened by climate change, which increases the moisture load on building façades. New types of defects are being observed in air cavities in well-designed and well-built wooden façades and roof...
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Arianna Brambilla and Eugenia Gasparri
Timber envelopes provide multiple benefits in reducing both operational and embodied energy environmental impacts in construction. However, when poorly designed, they may incur in high risk of mould growth, affecting both building performance and occupan...
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Mikael Boulic, Robyn Anne Phipps, Malcolm Cunningham, Don John Cleland, Pär Fjällström, Keiko Abe and Philippa Howden-Chapman
The relationship between the use of unflued gas heaters (UGH, N = 14) and heat pump heaters (HP, N = 12) located in the living rooms, and mould growth on the living room and bedroom walls, of 26 New Zealand (NZ) occupied homes was investigated during win...
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Mikael Boulic, Robyn Anne Phipps, Malcolm Cunningham, Don John Cleland, Pär Fjällström, Keiko Abe and Philippa Howden-Chapman
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Solli Murtyas, Yuki Minami, Kusumaningdyah Nurul Handayani and Aya Hagishima
Prolonged exposure to indoor dampness in dwellings triggers excessive mould, causing health problems for residents and damage to building structures. This study investigated dampness and mould growth in low-cost dwellings in the slum districts of Surakar...
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Isabeau Vandemeulebroucke, Steven Caluwaerts and Nathan Van Den Bossche
Previous studies show that climate change has an impact on the damage risks in solid masonry facades. To conserve these valuable buildings, it is important to determine the projected change in damages for the original and internally insulated cases. Sinc...
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Tessa Kvist Hansen
Naturally ventilated cold attics are traditional in many Danish single-family homes. The moisture balance of these attics is dependent on sufficient ventilation for removal of excess moisture. Moisture is generated in the dwelling below, and transported ...
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Marcus Strang, Paola Leardini, Arianna Brambilla and Eugenia Gasparri
The uptake of buildings employing cross-laminated timber (CLT) assemblies and designed to Passivhaus standard has accelerated internationally over the past two decades due to several factors including responses to the climate crisis by decarbonising the ...
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LU Bashir, IB Gashua, MA Isa, A Ali
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The antifungal activity of aqueous and ethanol extracts obtained from seed and leaf of Jatropha curcas were investigated using agar incorporation method in vitro against Aspergillus niger, a microbe known to be resistant to some chemical agents. Pathogen...
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Milosz Rutkowski, Lidia Krzeminska-Fiedorowicz, Gohar Khachatryan, Karol Bulski, Anna Kolton and Karen Khachatryan
Nanotechnology plays an important role in many fields of science and the economy. A special example of nanostructures is silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) created following the principles of green chemistry, i.e., without the use of toxic reducing compounds. ...
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Marta Epelde Merino,Iñaki Del Prim Gracia
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What is the relationship between a termal bridge and por indoor air quality? This paper aims to demostrate that there ir a direct two-way relationship between the two phenomena. Thermal bridges are abundantly present in the residential building stock thr...
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