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Buildings, Volume 12, Issue 7

2022 July - 197 articles

Cover Story: This paper examines the heat mitigation techniques and their effectiveness under Sydney’s climate conditions and compares strategies. From two perspectives,  urban greening (green roofs, green pavements) and albedo (street, roof), and characterise urban surface structures, and Envi-met software is employed for our simulation method. Mitigation strategies show a cooling potential of 4.1 °C in temperature along this precinct during the heatwave period. Scenarios that increase high-albedo material on the road, pavements and rooftops and full mitigation show the maximum cooling potential. The mitigation strategies have higher predicted cooling potential on the peak ambient temperature, up to 1.18 °C, while having no or little impact on minimum ambient temperature. The outdoor thermal comfort based on PMV indices varies between a minimum of −0.33 in scenario seven in large layout areas to 3. View this paper
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Articles (197)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,877 Views
21 Pages

Non-probabilistic reliability analysis has great developmental potential in the field of structural reliability analysis, as it is often difficult to obtain enough samples to construct an accurate probability distribution function of random variables...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,671 Views
20 Pages

Digital transformation has become a pressing concern for the Australian government in the wake of COVID-19. While a thriving construction industry is key to Australia’s economic recovery, the promised land of Industry 4.0 continues to elude the secto...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,023 Views
21 Pages

The off-site construction (OSC) method has attracted the interest of experts to resolve productivity stagnation and lack of skilled workforce and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry. Due to the unique characteristics of OS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,163 Views
24 Pages

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures could suffer from the combined action of fires, earthquakes, and other loads during their life cycle; more importantly, coupled disasters lead to further deterioration and damage to structural performance. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,177 Views
24 Pages

Route Planning for Fire Rescue Operations in Long-Term Care Facilities Using Ontology and Building Information Models

  • Ru-Guan Wang,
  • Pai-Yu Wu,
  • Chang-Yuan Liu,
  • Jia-Cheng Tan,
  • Mei-Ling Chuang and
  • Chien-Cheng Chou

As our society ages, more and more elderly or disabled people live in long-term care (LTC) facilities, which are vulnerable to fires and may result in heavy casualties. Because of the low mobility of LTC residents, firefighters often need to enter th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,230 Views
26 Pages

The quality of road infrastructure largely depends on the quality of road construction and adequate construction machinery. In order to reduce uncertainties and improve the performance of road infrastructure, it is necessary to apply modern and appro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,299 Views
24 Pages

Effect of Hot Mixing Duration on Blending, Performance, and Environmental Impact of Central Plant Recycled Asphalt Mixture

  • Jie Gao,
  • Yuquan Yao,
  • Jinhua Huang,
  • Jiangang Yang,
  • Liang Song,
  • Jing Xu and
  • Xinhu Lu

When using a high concentration of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in a recycled hot-mix asphalt mixture (RHMA), the degree of blending of the reclaimed asphalt binder significantly affects the performance of the RHMA. Hence, it is essential to know...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,303 Views
17 Pages

The visual quality of architectural heritage is crucial to the preservation of architectural features, enhancement of the environmental quality, and conservation of the sustainable development and adaptive use of architectural heritage. Few studies h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,145 Views
17 Pages

The anti-slide pile is a primary method of landslide control. The effect of the passive soil arch in front of the embedded section of piles has a significant effect on the anti-slide pile’s bearing capacity. The upgraded model test scheme was u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,048 Views
17 Pages

Investigation on Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Recycled Concrete Aggregate under Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Impact Test

  • Wenping Du,
  • Caiqian Yang,
  • Hans De Backer,
  • Chen Li,
  • Kai Ming,
  • Honglei Zhang and
  • Yong Pan

The dynamic mechanical properties of recycled concrete (RC) and natural concrete (NC) were studied by impact tests and numerical simulation. The quasi-static tests were conducted by a servo-hydraulic machine, while the impact test used a 50 mm diamet...

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