Buildings, Volume 15, Issue 2

As a typical extreme environment, a high-geothermal environment poses severe challenges to tunnel construction in western China. In this paper, a thermal–mechanical coupling model was formulated to evaluate the cracking behavior of lining under...

Pluvial floods are increasingly affecting urban areas worldwide. Despite growing media attention and clear owner responsibility for reducing climate-related risk for buildings in Swedish national adaptation policy, adaptation action remains slow. Und...

This study examines existing buildings in Haikou in China under tropical island climate conditions. It presents three retrofit design models for greenhouses roofs (GHR), green roofs (GR) and photovoltaic roofs (PVR). The carbon cost of each retrofit...

Accurate load forecasting is of vital importance for improving the energy utilization efficiency and economic profitability of intelligent buildings. However, load forecasting is restricted in the popularization and application of conventional load f...

Religion is one of the most important factors in architectural shaping. The concepts or sub-concepts that make up religion have a different language that each designer wants to explain. This language is presented semantically and syntactically throug...

In recent years, firefighter accidents and people injured by the collapse of steel structures during a fire have occurred frequently, which has attracted the attention of the National Emergency Management Department and the Fire and Rescue Bureau. It...

In recent years, the in-depth implementation of China’s “shifting from secondary industries to tertiary industries” policy, coupled with the accelerating pace of urban renewal, has positioned the transformation and reuse of industri...

The reconstruction of old communities makes an outstanding contribution to, and holds practical significance for, livelihoods and ecological civilization in the urban renewal context. Clarifying the renovation intentions of residents is conducive to...

Prefabricated insulation grid shear walls are a new type of wall which integrates structure, insulation and formwork. A grid-like reinforced concrete shear wall with vertical and transverse limbs is formed by casting concrete into the reserved vertic...

Green open space in high-density cities has positive significance in terms of improving the quality of the living environment and solving problems such as “urban diseases”. Taking the high-density urban districts of the Macau Peninsula an...