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Pearl Ashitey, Rohan Benjankar, Susan Morgan, William Retzlaff and Serdar Celik
Green roofs have been used to reduce rainfall runoff by altering hydrological processes through plant interception and retention as well as detention within the green roof system. Green roof media depth, substrate type, plant type and density, regional c...
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Sana Dardouri, Ekrem Tunçbilek, Othmen Khaldi, Müslüm Arici and Jalila Sghaier
Energy conservation in buildings has been the focus of many studies since nearly one-third of global energy consumption is due to buildings. Phase change material (PCM) technology promises to be an attractive solution for energy saving in buildings since...
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Juan Xu, Wenting Yang, Ziliang Lu, Yan Wu, Chaoping Hou and Dan Liu
Slate dwellings are known as the ?living fossil of primitive dwellings? in China. Energy-saving strategies are crucial to slate dwellings for sustainability as well as maintaining thermal comfort. In this research, a subjective satisfaction analysis on t...
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Bingcai Sun, Duanzhu Ma, Lei Gao, Mingchuan He, Zengli Peng, Xin Li and Wenhua Wang
In this study, the wind buckling capacity of an open-topped steel tank with harmonic settlement-induced imperfection is numerically investigated. Although the single effect of the wind load or differential settlement on the open-topped steel tanks is wid...
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Yoganand Korgaonkar, David Phillip Guertin, Thomas Meixner and David C Goodrich
Green Infrastructure (GI) practices are being implemented in numerous cities to tackle stormwater management issues and achieve co-benefits such as mitigating heat island effects and air pollution, as well as water augmentation, health, and economic bene...
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