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Jacinta García-Talegón, Adolfo Carlos Iñigo, Rosa Sepúlveda and Eduardo Azofra
After subjecting Zamora building stones to accelerated ageing tests, colour changes were studied, namely: (a) freezing/thawing and thermal shock (gelifraction and thermoclasty), and (b) combination of freezing/thawing plus thermal shock and salt crystall...
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Georgios Eleftheriadis and Mohamed Hamdy
Through monitoring of buildings, it can be proven that the performance of envelope elements and energy supply systems deteriorates with time. The results of this degradation are higher energy consumption and life cycle costs than projected in the buildin...
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Tulika Suchit Gadakari,Jingjing Wang,Karim Hadjri,Junjie Huang
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Ageing-in-place is the most common ageing model in China. Therefore, design of age-friendly residential buildings and neighbourhoods becomes an important factor leading to improvement in older people?s health and quality of life. This paper presents the ...
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Joost Van Hoof and Peter Boerenfijn
Population ageing has become a domain of international discussions and research throughout the spectrum of disciplines including housing, urban planning, and real estate. Older people are encouraged to continue living in their homes in their familiar env...
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Gisela Lameira, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Nuno Valentim and Azar Mohammadpanah
Custom-built solutions for ageing, urban regeneration, energy efficiency, thermal performance, and well-being are contemporary challenges that have prompted considerable research over the past decades. In the construction field, subjects such as energy e...
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Masa Noguchi, Nan Ma, Catherine Mei Min Woo, Hing-wah Chau and Jin Zhou
Growing ageing population today may be necessitating building design decision makers to reconsider the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) standards in a way that accommodates senior occupants’ diverse and individual needs and demands. An experience...
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Khaled ELKarazle, Valliappan Raman and Patrick Then
Automatic age estimation from facial images is an exciting machine learning topic that has attracted researchers? attention over the past several years. Numerous human?computer interaction applications, such as targeted marketing, content access control,...
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Cláudia Ferreira, Joana Barrelas, Ana Silva, Jorge de Brito, Ilídio S. Dias and Inês Flores-Colen
Façades, as the most external building envelope component, are subject to different ex-ternal environmental loads, such as: Temperature, precipitation, damp, and wind. Therefore, the contribution of environmental actions to the occurrence of defects in f...
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Xiaoran Huang, Pixin Gong, Marcus White and Bo Zhang
With population ageing being a notable demographic phenomenon, aging in place is an efficient model to accommodate the mounting aging needs. Based on the community scale, this study takes the 15-min community-life circle as the basic research unit to inv...
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Cinthia Maia Pederneiras, Rosário Veiga and Jorge de Brito
One of the main functions of renders, together with the overall aesthetic appearance of the building, is the protection of the walls against external aggressive actions, such as water, salts solutions, erosion, and mechanical impacts. However, some anoma...
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Elena Matei, Despina Saghin, Liliana Dumitrache and Mariana Nae
Residential care centres for elders (RCCEs) in Romania have rapidly developed over the last two decades. In the absence of coherent policies regarding elderly people, RCCEs are mainly the result of businesses arising from an acceleration of the ageing pr...
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