19 articles in this issue
Faham Tahmasebinia, Marjo Niemelä, Sanee Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh Sepasgozar, Tin Yiu Lai, Winson Su, Kakarla Raghava Reddy, Sara Shirowzhan, Samad Sepasgozar and Fernando Alonso Marroquin
Three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies are transforming the design and manufacture of components and products across many disciplines, but their application in the construction industry is still limited. Material deposition processes can achieve inf... see more
Mohamed Hechmi El Ouni, Mohamed Y. Laissy, Mohammed Ismaeil and Nabil Ben Kahla
The study aims to assess the impact of shear walls on active vibration control of the buildings. It has evaluated the design of a smart 20-story building equipped with an Active Mass Damper to mitigate earthquakes. The design has combined shear walls with... see more
Armin Teskeredzic and Rejhana Blazevic
A mathematical model and robust numerical solution algorithm for radiator heating of an arbitrary room is presented in this paper. Three separate and coupled transient thermal energy equations are solved. A modified transient heat conduction equation is u... see more
Cristiano Loss, Stefano Pacchioli, Andrea Polastri, Daniele Casagrande, Luca Pozza and Ian Smith
Changes to building codes that enable use of materials such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) in mid- and high-rise construction are facilitating sustainable urban development in various parts of the world. Keys to this are the transition to multi-performan... see more
Sara Delle Macchie, Simone Secchi and Gianfranco Cellai
This paper reports the acoustic issues of open plan office environments. According to a detailed research based on the scientific literature of the most suitable acoustic descriptors recommended for the open plan offices analysis, the main typological-fun... see more
Kate Sarkodee and Andrew Martel
Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme Specialist Disability Accommodation (NDIS SDA) program anticipates new, disability specific, housing stock being built by private investors incentivized by cash payments and rental income. To date, ve... see more
Florencia Franzini, Ritva Toivonen and Anne Toppinen
As the construction sector continues to be associated with highly energy-intensive practices leading to excessive carbon emissions, governments in many countries are promoting a shift towards greener building practices, like the use of wood in multistory ... see more
Albert Albareda-Valls, Alejandra Bustos Herrera, Joan Lluís Zamora Mestre and Saeid S. Zaribaf
Image processing methods are increasingly used in civil engineering, especially in the maintenance of concrete structures. Current digital cameras and post-processing methods allow verifying qualitatively the state of conservation of wide areas of concret... see more
Zaigham Ali, Fangwei Zhu and Shahid Hussain
Like other kinds of projects, construction projects are exposed to uncertainty, which plays a critical role in determining the transaction cost (TC). This study explores the uncertainty factors that are associated with construction projects that substanti... see more
Jihyun Park, Vivian Loftness and Azizan Aziz
The indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of buildings can have a strong influence on occupants’ comfort, productivity, and health. Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is necessary in assessing the IEQ of the built environment, and it typically relies on t... see more
Virgo Sulakatko
The increased number of energy efficiency requirements of the European Union has increased the renovation rate of apartment buildings. The external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) is often used to upgrade the façade. However, the constr... see more
Björn Berggren and Maria Wall
It is important to minimize transmission heat transfer losses through the building envelope when designing and building energy efficient buildings in heating dominated climates. In such a climate, a large part of the space heating demand is caused by tran... see more
Osama Mohamed
This study examines durability and mechanical properties of sustainable self-consolidating concrete (SCC) in which 80% of the cement is replaced with combinations of recycled industrial by-products including fly ash, silica fume, and ground granulated bla... see more
Ahmet Biler, Aslihan Unlu Tavil, Yuehong Su and Naghman Khan
The air quality of indoor spaces is the most significant parameter in providing a healthy living environment. Low indoor air quality (IAQ) leads to Sick Building Syndrome—one of the major reasons for labor loss in office buildings. The fundamental m... see more
João M. C. Estêvão
The selection of a given method for the seismic vulnerability assessment of buildings is mostly dependent on the scale of the analysis. Results obtained in large-scale studies are usually less accurate than the ones obtained in small-scale studies. In thi... see more
Jouri Kanters
Stricter building regulations have resulted in the construction of buildings with a low energy use during the operation phase. It has now become increasingly important to also look at the embodied energy, because it might, over the lifespan of the buildin... see more
Banjo Akinyemi and Temidayo Omoniyi
This study evaluated the properties of latex modified cement mortars from ordinary paints which were reinforced with treated bamboo fibers from construction waste. Fiber variations of 0, 0.5, 1 and 1.5% at 10% of the weight of cement were utilized. Mechan... see more
Ming Lu, Yan Zhang, Jun Xing and Wenda Ma
With the development of energy-saving and emission-reduction, solar energy as a clean energy with excellent characteristics has bright prospects for development and application in residential environment with high energy consumption. With the intensificat... see more
Stephen Y. C. Yim, S. Thomas Ng, M. U. Hossain and James M. W. Wong
Despite the fact that many novel initiatives have been put forward to reduce the carbon emissions of buildings, there is still a lack of comprehensive investigation in analyzing a buildings’ life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially in h... see more