Buildings, Volume 13, Issue 10

The double-skin roof has been applied in the design of modern granaries for energy saving. Compared with the ordinary parallel double plate, the double skin composed of an inclined upper plate can effectively improve the situation of a “hot roo...

Increasing women’s representation in male-dominated professions has become an unending debate due to different gender barriers across various sectors. This study examined the barriers to female construction graduates’ employment as constr...

In the absence of industry data, organisms, and researchers leverage free and available data, specifically building and demolition permits. Geospatial processing is essential to integrate information from various files into a single GIS layer contain...

Carbon-reinforced concrete (CRC) is increasingly utilized in construction, due to its unique properties, such as corrosion resistance, high-tensile strength, and durability. Understanding its behavior under different loads is crucial to ensuring its...

Demand response techniques can be effective at reducing heating costs for building owners. However, few studies have considered the dynamic marginal costs for district heating production and taken advantage of them for building-level demand response....

In this study, an experiment was conducted to innovate a new design of interlocking concrete blocks (ICBs) containing recycled aggregates (RAs) by reducing the consumed time and cost in construction using an environmental approach. Accordingly, the d...

This study explored self-healing in geopolymer mortar cured at ambient temperature using polypropylene fibers and bacterial co-cultures of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus megaterium. Damage degree, compressive strength, ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV)...

This paper presents the key mechanical properties of PVC fiber-reinforced concrete. Six concrete mixtures were produced using plastic fibers obtained from clear PVC sheets. Three concrete mixtures were made using 20 mm long PVC fibers, whereas the ot...

Hydropower, a renewable energy resource, underpins China’s economic and social advancement, gaining prominence amidst the country’s energy structure metamorphosis. Enhancing the performance of hydropower development projects is imperative...

In scholarly construction management, “program” denotes terminologies like “mega-project” and “infrastructure project”. Within this framework, the Construction Program Delivery (CPD) system is an indispensable mech...