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Dejiang Wang, Quanming Jiang and Jinzheng Liu
In the field of building information modeling (BIM), converting existing buildings into BIM by using orthophotos with digital surface models (DSMs) is a critical technical challenge. Currently, the BIM reconstruction process is hampered by the inadequate...
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Adel M. A. Binyaseen
Organizational change, influenced by such factors as economics, information and communications technologies (ICTs), and users? wellbeing, is essential for organizational effectiveness, productivity, and sustainability. Thus, there has been a call for urg...
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Niki Balkamou and George Papagiannopoulos
Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings. In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a r/c building designed a...
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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Etienne Saloux
This paper summarizes the results of a Special Issue focusing on the practical applications of model predictive control and other advanced control methods in the built environment. This Special Issue contains eleven publications and deals with various to...
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Armando Silva-Afonso and Carla Pimentel-Rodrigues
The objective of this article is to deepen knowledge about the existing connections, at the level of urban environments, between energy, water, and nutrients (or food). Energy and basic resources?water and food?are closely interconnected, which is why th...
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Xuejing Xie, Yongyang Xu, Bin Feng and Wenjun Wu
The classification of urban functional areas is important for understanding the characteristics of urban areas and optimizing the utilization of urban land resources. Existing related methods have improved accuracy. However, they neglect cognitive differ...
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Yuntao Shi, Qi Luo, Meng Zhou, Wei Guo, Jie Li, Shuqin Li and Yu Ding
Objects thrown from tall buildings in communities are characterized by their small size, inconspicuous features, and high speed. Existing algorithms for detecting such objects face challenges, including excessive parameters, overly complex models that ar...
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Martina Hauser, Stefan Reinstaller, Martin Oberascher, Dirk Muschalla and Manfred Kleidorfer
Owing to climate change, heavy rainfall events have increased in recent years, often resulting in urban flooding. Urban flood models usually consider buildings to be closed obstacles, which is not the case in reality. To address this research gap, an exi...
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Paula Martin-Goñi, Jaume Avellaneda and Josep María González
The aim of this paper is to explore the rehabilitation strategies for multi-family dwellings on the level of function and techniques. The study employs its own methods of analysis using a sample of selected cases as a reference. Nearly 20% of EU building...
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