2026 May-2 - 194 articles
With global warming and the increasing frequency of extreme heat events, heat health risk assessment (HHRA) has become a critical topic in climate change studies. However, the study themes, methods, and governance orientation of HHRA vary significant...
The basic renovation of old urban communities is an important livelihood project for urban renewal, but there are many problems in the decision-making of renovation schemes, such as strong dependence on experience, lack of quantitative basis for mult...
The excavation of deep shafts using Vertical Shaft Sinking Machine (VSM) technology in stratified soft soils involves complex soil-structure interaction (SSI) mechanisms that are often oversimplified by conventional numerical approaches. This study d...
This study proposes an innovative methodology that integrates finite element simulation, machine learning, and interpretable model analysis to predict the vertical bearing capacity of piles in cold saline environments. Initially, Python scripts are d...
This study experimentally investigates the mechanical performance of historic brick masonry walls strengthened with three innovative methods: restoration mortar, carbon textile reinforcement, and sprayed polyurea. The research comprises material char...
The macroscopic resistance of asphalt mixtures to permanent deformation is fundamentally governed by the mechanical properties of the constituent asphalt mortar; however, a unified evaluation system that quantitatively links the energy evolution betw...
The integration of digital technologies is increasingly recognized as a critical enabler of lean practices in prefabricated construction projects. However, a systematic understanding of the underlying factors that drive this lean–digital transf...
Despite the widespread deployment of combined PV–BESS systems in community buildings, the distinct contributions of each technology to energy consumption reduction and electricity cost savings remain poorly quantified under real operational con...
The deterioration of steel reinforcement through corrosion triggers cracking and loss of concrete cover, ultimately weakening the structure’s strength and ductility. In practical design and assessment, it is vital to precisely quantify the shea...
This study conducted a 1:3 scale model test to investigate the improvement mechanism of damaged steel–concrete transition segments strengthened by UHPC. Meanwhile, a void region was introduced at the bottom of the transition segment to simulate...
This study investigates how different rural landscape types shape visual attention and physiological responses, with the aim of informing more targeted rural landscape renewal. Four typical rural landscape types in the suburbs of Hefei, China, were e...
In hot and humid regions, urban underground utility tunnels are susceptible to high temperature and humidity due to moist inlet air, cable heat dissipation, and limited ventilation jointly affecting the internal environment. To address this issue, an...
Vision-based monitoring of personal protective equipment (PPE) is central to construction safety, yet robust detectors remain limited by scarce, privacy-constrained site imagery. Digital twin simulation can generate labeled synthetic data at scale, b...
This study investigates the seismic behaviour of the Hüsrev Pasha Minaret, a historical masonry structure located in Diyarbakır, Türkiye, characterized by two distinct transition segments and material variation along its height. The dy...
Large-scale cultural complexes serve significant numbers of child users, yet existing spatial assessment approaches are predominantly developed from adult perspectives and rarely consider child-height environmental exposure conditions at children&rsq...
International evidence has been positioning the built environment as an active component of the development of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); nevertheless, a gap persists in the empirical quantification of that relationship and, above...
Against the backdrop of the global advancement of carbon neutrality goals and the energy transition in the building sector, zero-carbon buildings have emerged as pivotal enablers for achieving carbon neutrality in the construction industry. The rule-...
Glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites offer a compelling solution to the durability degradation of reinforced concrete (RC) structures in harsh marine and de-icing environments. Hybridizing fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) with conventional...
Mass concrete is prone to cracking induced by high early-age temperature rise and significant shrinkage stress, which severely compromises structural durability and safety. Aiming to achieve “low temperature rise and high crack resistance,&rdqu...
Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook) has considerable potential for structural use in China, but wider application is constrained by the lack of standard-linked grading approaches. This study examined the effects of specimen size condit...
Accurate evaluation of indoor daylighting performance is essential for improving visual comfort and reducing lighting energy use in office buildings. However, simulation-based daylighting analysis is often too time-consuming to support rapid comparis...
The transition toward Industry 5.0 in sustainable construction demands a radical reconceptualisation of workforce development, moving beyond purely technical training to embrace human-centricity, digitalisation, green competencies, and socio-cognitiv...
Road traffic noise in urban streets is shaped not only by traffic sources but also by sound propagation through the surrounding street geometry. Existing prediction methods are still largely source-oriented, and receptor-specific models that rely on...
The evaluation of intervention strategies for the existing building stock, within the context of energy transition and increasing attention being given to sustainability, requires approaches capable of systematically integrating economic and environm...
This study introduces a domain-specific multimodal deep learning framework, centered on a Vision Transformer (ViT), to accelerate the prediction of operational carbon emissions in residential buildings. Our approach uniquely fuses two data modalities...
The structural safety and performance of long-span bridges in coastal areas are significantly influenced by the wind field. Traditional univariate or simplified multivariate probabilistic models often fail to capture the multimodal and nonlinear depe...
The indoor environmental quality of primary and secondary school classrooms is crucial for students’ health and learning efficiency, yet enhancing comfort often leads to high energy consumption. Efficiently balancing the complex relationship be...
Designing ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) mixtures requires balancing multiple, often conflicting, performance criteria, particularly mechanical strength and rheological behavior. However, the limited availability of publicly accessible datase...
An effective sensor network strategy is fundamental to structural health monitoring (SHM). Optimal sensor placement (OSP) for transmission towers remains insufficiently studied, primarily owing to the extensive number of candidate nodes and the compl...
Construction sectors in developing countries continue to experience disproportionately high fatality rates, largely due to reactive safety practices and the limited adoption of digital safety technologies. While Building Information Modeling (BIM) an...
History museum exhibition spaces convey historical and cultural information through static artifacts, graphic–text narratives, and spatial atmosphere. The light environment affects not only exhibit visibility but also visitors’ visual com...
This study investigates the optimization of the building envelope parameters of a duplex residential building in Elazig, Türkiye, in line with nearly-zero energy building (nZEB) requirements. The annual energy performance of the case study build...
Building fires involve numerous interacting hazard factors, making it difficult to identify which combinations are most likely to cause an incident and to design targeted interventions. Existing methods address only part of this problem: structural a...
Murals are not merely independent visual artworks. Rather, they are an integral part of architectural heritage, directly attached to buildings’ structural elements, such as brick walls and vaults. However, murals are susceptible to various buil...
Masonry structures are widely used in civil engineering due to their favorable load-bearing capacity and construction efficiency; however, the threat posed by long-duration blast loads from industrial accidents and large-yield explosions has become i...
Urban color plays a fundamental role in shaping the visual character and cultural identity of cities. Yet in many contexts, current practices remain fragmented, with color analysis often disconnected from planning implementation and governance. To ad...
Membrane roofs with saddle geometry are widely used in stadiums and public facilities that are highly exposed to rainfall. However, current design practice typically considers rainfall only in terms of seepage effects, drainage requirements, or stati...
As a structural material characterised by low density, high strength, excellent corrosion resistance and recyclability, aluminium alloy tubes are finding increasingly widespread application in the construction sector. However, there is currently a la...
Land subsidence is an important challenge faced by coastal cities under rapid urban development. This study focuses on the Haikou–Laocheng area and conducts time-series monitoring of land subsidence using PS-InSAR and SBAS-InSAR based on 42 Sen...
In the intelligent recognition of construction drawings, architectural components significantly vary in size, and small objects are easily overlooked. To address these two challenges, this paper proposes a multi-scale feature fusion method based on c...
Background: Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in housing plays a critical role in supporting health, comfort, and daily well-being, yet research and practice often address thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality conditions in isolation. Objective...
To improve the resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) plates against combined blast and fragment loading, the effectiveness of engineered cementitious composite (ECC) protective layers was investigated. Existing studies have mainly focused on single...
Reinforced concrete (RC) buildings in coastal seismic regions are exposed to coupled deterioration processes driven by chloride-induced corrosion and earthquake loading. This interaction is particularly critical along the Mexican Pacific coast, where...
The frequent occurrence of extreme climate events poses a severe challenge to the reliability of building energy systems. Hydrogen energy, with its long-term storage capacity, has become a key technology carrier for enhancing building resilience. Thi...
The construction of single-story industrial halls in high-seismicity regions requires reliable beam-to-column connections to ensure adequate structural stiffness and strength. This paper investigates the emulative performance of a rigid precast beam&...
Smart building services are increasingly realised through combinations of sensors, actuators, communication infrastructures, software platforms, analytics, and artificial intelligence-based functions. These configurations enable adaptive control, rea...
Streets are major public spaces in high-density cities, and their visual environments are closely related to shaping emotional experience and wellbeing. However, existing studies often examine macro-scale urban form and pedestrian-level streetscape p...
The structural application of Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC) in marine and coastal structures remains restricted by its highly variable quality and uncertain durability. Although the adhered old mortar is recognized as the most distinctive feature...
Concrete, when used in construction, is prone to internal micro cracks that compromise its strength, flexibility, durability and lifespan. To address this, self-healing concrete technologies using microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MI...
In the rapid chloride migration (RCM) test, the chloride concentration at the chromogenic boundary often differs from the standard value of 0.07 mol/L, leading to an overestimated migration coefficient, especially when the penetration depth is shallo...
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