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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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Janis Birkeland
Built environment design is implicated in virtually all socio-ecological sustainability problems. Nonetheless, paradoxically, construction will be essential to creating sustainability by increasing social and natural life-support systems. Given the rates...
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Graciela Melisa Viegas, Dante Andrés Barbero, Pedro Joaquín Chévez, Irene Martini, Carlos Alberto Discoli
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El presente trabajo busca generar soluciones para abordar la problemática del reciclado edilicio masivo del sector residencial a nivel urbano. Para ello, se desarrolla una metodología innovadora orientada a identificar los distintos materiales constructi...
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Glenda Abate, Simone Bramante and Maria Rossella Massimino
Several urban areas in the Mediterranean have already been subjected to seismic microzonation studies aimed at determining the acceleration expected on the ground surface, therefore mitigating the associated seismic risks. These studies have been general...
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Raffaele Carli, Mariagrazia Dotoli and Roberta Pellegrino
Investing in the optimal measures for improving the energy efficiency of urban street lighting systems has become strategic for the economic, technological and social development of cities. The decision-making process for the selection of the optimal set...
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Anna Palla, Ilaria Gnecco and Paolo La Barbera
In an existing urban environment, retrofitting low impact development (LID) solutions can provide an opportunity to address flooding and water quality problems. Taking into account the need to effectively estimate the impact of vegetated LIDs, particular...
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Jorge Carretero Monteagudo
El estudio de las características urbanas y arquitectónicas, y las posibles medidas de rehabilitación para los centros comerciales de gran tamaño, fueron el punto de partida para evaluar la sostenibilidad medioambiental y urbana de los mismos. En la pres...
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Vladimír Hamouz, Jardar Lohne, Jaran R. Wood and Tone M. Muthanna
Rooftops represent a considerable part of the impervious fractions of urban environments. Detaining and retaining runoff from vegetated rooftops can be a significant contribution to reducing the effects of urbanization, with respect to increased runoff p...
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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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Gerald J. Kauffman
The Delaware River has made a marked recovery in the half-century since the adoption of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) Compact in 1961 and passage of the Federal Clean Water Act amendments during the 1970s. During the 1960s, the DRBC set a 3....
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