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Fernanda Paes de Barros Gomide, Luís Bragança and Eloy Fassi Casagrande Junior
The construction sector stands as the predominant consumer of cement, steel, and plastic and is accountable for a substantial 55% of industrial carbon emissions. Greenhouse gases and other forms of pollution linked to the housing sector significantly con...
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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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Dario Bottino-Leone, Dagmar Elisabet Exner, Jennifer Adami, Alexandra Troi and Jessica Balest
The abandonment and deterioration of historic rural buildings in Europe raise significant issues, including hydrogeological risks, the loss of productive land, and cultural heritage decline. Despite being underestimated, these structures hold significant...
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Alice Rene? Di Rocco, Dario Bottino-Leone, Alexandra Troi and Daniel Herrera-Avellanosa
The challenge of transforming historic buildings and city centers into energy-self-sufficient environments requires innovative solutions. The research project ?BiPV meets History? addressed this challenge by providing comprehensive guidelines for assessi...
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Gudeta Berhanu Benti, Jan-Olov Aidanpää and Rolf Gustavsson
In 2015, a 45 MW vertical hydropower machine exhibited excessive vibration after refurbishment. Measurements revealed a substantial bearing clearance at the lower generator guide bearing. Consequently, the bearing was unable to generate sufficient opposi...
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Giuseppe Santarsiero
The recent accident of Mestre (northern Italy), which caused 21 fatalities due to a bus falling from a bridge, strongly highlighted the safety problem related to the presence of old railings along Italian roads. Bridge railings, also known as guardrails ...
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Martin Rodríguez-Vázquez, Iván Hernández-Pérez, Irving Hernández-López, Yvonne Chávez, Carlos M. Jiménez-Xamán, Luis A. Baltazar-Tadeo and Alfredo Aranda-Arizmendi
The refurbishment of a social interest building using Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger (EAHE) was studied in representative dry climatic conditions of Mexico (dry, very dry, temperate, and sub-temperate). A simulation method that uses both computational fluid...
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Carlo Costantino, Anna Chiara Benedetti and Riccardo Gulli
The Italian residential building stock consists of 12.2 million buildings, with 7.2 constructed post-World War II during the economic boom. These structures were designed without specific regulations for seismic safety, fire resistance, and energy effici...
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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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Chih-Han Kao, Wei-Tong Chen and Chung-Kuang Ho
Construction projects are inherently complex and entail extensive information processing. Thus, they require effective information management, which, in turn, requires the preservation of critical construction data (CD). Although BIM and blockchain metho...
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