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Thomas Connolly, Cristiano Loss, Asif Iqbal and Thomas Tannert
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Thomas Connolly, Cristiano Loss, Asif Iqbal and Thomas Tannert
The UBC Brock Commons building in Vancouver, which comprises of 18 stories and stands 53 m in height, was at the time of completion in 2016 the world?s tallest hybrid wood-based building. The building?s 17 stories of mass-timber superstructure, carrying ...
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Krushna Mahapatra and Stefan Olsson
Two eight-story wood-framed residential buildings with the Swedish 2012 passive house standard were built in 2009 in the Portvakten Söder quarter in the city of Växjö in Sweden. In this paper, we present the monitored specific energy use of the buildings...
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Samuel V. Glass, Vladimir Kochkin, S. Craig Drumheller and Lance Barta
Long-term moisture performance is a critical consideration for design and construction of building envelopes in energy-efficient buildings, yet field measurements of moisture characteristics for highly insulated wood-frame walls in mixed-humid climates a...
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Olav Høibø, Eric Hansen, Erlend Nybakk and Marius Nygaard
A fast-growing global population, increasing urbanization, and an increasing flow of people with different building cultural backgrounds bring material use in the housing sector into focus. The aim of this study is to identify material preferences in the...
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Karen Stephanie Cansiong Guerrra,José Escobar Avilés
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One of the materials that plays a paper fundamental in the sector of construction in the wood, because to structure it has excellent properties mechanical that include high strength, good durability, high specific gravity and high moisture content. In th...
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Bojana Petrovic, Ola Eriksson, Xingxing Zhang and Marita Wallhagen
Previous research has shown a lack of studies with comparisons between primary (virgin) and secondary (re-used) building materials, and their embodied emissions. The creation of different scenarios comparing the environmental impact of virgin vs. re-used...
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Radu Claudiu Fierascu, Mihaela Doni and Irina Fierascu
Vernacular buildings are usually constructed using materials at hand, including wood, natural stone and bricks (either clay or mud bricks). All those materials are exposed to a series of environmental factors, affecting their structure and integrity. The...
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Pierre Peigné, Christian Inard and Lionel Druette
This paper presents a new air-heating system concept for energy-efficient dwellings. It is a system designed to heat a low-energy building by coupling a heat-recovery ventilation system with a three-fluid heat exchanger located on the chimney of a wood-...
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Byeong-Uk Shin
A hanok is a traditional Korean house built with wood as the main structural material. It is constructed using cross- and unidirectional joint techniques without the use of steel. A hanok is composed of vertical and horizontal members, with columns being...
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Andrea Roncari, Filippo Gobbi and Cristiano Loss
Simplified seismic design procedures mostly recommend the adoption of rigid floor diaphragms when forming a building?s lateral force-resisting structural system. While rigid behavior is compatible with many reinforced concrete or composite steel-concrete...
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Yo Fukutani, Anawat Suppasri and Fumihiko Imamura
Based on the definition of tsunami risk, we quantitatively evaluated the annual expected tsunami loss ratio (Tsunami Risk Index) and clarified the quantitative effects of epistemic uncertainties in tsunami hazard assessments on the tsunami risk of buildi...
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Yo Fukutani, Anawat Suppasri and Fumihiko Imamura
Based on the definition of tsunami risk, we quantitatively evaluated the annual expected tsunami loss ratio (Tsunami Risk Index) and clarified the quantitative effects of epistemic uncertainties in tsunami hazard assessments on the tsunami risk of buildi...
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Oscar Filio Reynoso, Amparo Borja de la Rosa, Mario Fuentes Salinas, Alejandro Corona Ambriz
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Building wood frame houses is viewed as an excellent alternative to meet the growing demand for housing in Mexico. The aim was to design a pinewood house construction project, based on the stud structural system, to show how to proceed when building a pa...
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Jozef Gocál, Josef Vican, Jaroslav Odrobinák, Richard Hlinka, Franti?ek Bahleda and Agnieszka Wdowiak-Postulak
In addition to traditional building materials, such as steel and concrete, wood has been gaining increasing prominence in recent years. In the past, the use of wood was limited due to its susceptibility to damage by fungi, insects, and temperature. These...
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Ariya Eini, Lina Zhou and Chun Ni
Light-frame wood structures are the most common type of construction for residential and low-rise buildings in North America. The 2015 edition of the National Building Code of Canada has increased the height limit for light-frame wood construction from 4...
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Jussi Matias Savolainen, Hüseyin Emre Ilgin, Eveliina Oinas and Markku Karjalainen
This study aims to understand the views and experiences of Tampere residents in Finland about multi-story timber-framed apartments and wooden structures through a questionnaire. The 151 responses highlighted two main issues: (1) multi-story timber-framed...
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Cassandra Lafond and Pierre Blanchet
The energy efficiency of buildings is well documented. However, to improve standards of energy efficiency, the embodied energy of materials included in the envelope is also increasing. Natural fibers like wood and hemp are used to make low environmental ...
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Yuriy Tsapko,Vasyl Lomaha,?leksii Tsapko,Serhii Mazurchuk,Oleksandra Horbachova,Denys Zavialov
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An analysis of fire-retardant materials for wooden building structures is carried out and the need to develop reliable methods for studying the process of ignition and flame propagation on the surface of a building structure, necessary for creating new t...
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Man-Il Kim and Jae-Hwan Kwak
Studies have been conducted to understand the physical characteristics of debris flows and quantitatively assess the vulnerability of the buildings nearby to mitigate damage from debris flow disasters. However, there remains a paucity of research on vuln...
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