2026 October-1 - 213 articles
Traditional village built heritage conservation requires attention to both the preservation of heritage cores and their relationships with peripheral environments. Existing research has extensively examined heritage preservation, spatial change, and...
Wood-wool cement boards (WWCBs) are multifunctional construction products whose reliable manufacture depends on sufficiently rapid and reproducible cement setting in the presence of lignocellulosic constituents. Soluble wood-derived compounds can ret...
Built environments continuously shape how people perceive, act, feel, and make sense of their surroundings. In recent decades, research into architectural experience has produced increasingly detailed accounts of these processes, revealing how charac...
Street-visible greenery is a routine form of environmental exposure, yet its unequal distribution is often interpreted mainly through contemporary socioeconomic or built-environment conditions, with limited attention to historical housing development...
Historical slender steel towers designed before modern fatigue provisions require evidence-based procedures to assess their remaining fatigue life under wind action. This study presents a time-domain fatigue life estimation procedure and applies it t...
While concrete cover is conventionally evaluated for durability and corrosion protection in reinforced concrete (RC) elements, its critical role in concrete-reinforcement bond efficiency, mechanical core confinement, and overall structural ductility...
Single-number ratings are widely used in building acoustics, but they are meaningful only when the reference-curve procedure is applied correctly and the reported descriptors are matched to the physical problem. This study re-evaluates accredited in...
Temporary construction-site buildings in cold regions often suffer from poor indoor thermal environments and high heating energy consumption, while field-based studies and cost-effective improvement strategies remain limited. This study investigated...
Climate change poses growing challenges for the conservation and maintenance of heritage buildings, particularly traditional structures exposed to temperature and precipitation variability. This study investigates perceived climate-related risks and...
Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology has had a strong impact on many industries, including the biomedical and automotive industries and, more recently, the construction industry. Achieving the 2050 carbon neutrality targets calls for change, es...
In the construction sector, technical bid evaluation is crucial for maintaining equity, evaluating contractor capabilities, and allocating resources efficiently. However, traditional methods rely heavily on manual expert review, which can introduce s...
The aim of this paper was to numerically study the reinforced concrete external beam-column joints using DIANA FEA, on which experimental tests were conducted. The validation of results was conducted using experimental data, as the numerical model fu...
This study addresses the recycling of construction waste wood and the development of thermal insulation materials by developing a high-belite sulfoaluminate cement-based recycled wood powder thermal insulation mortar (HRTM). High-belite sulfoaluminat...
Timber-structure buildings are a common traditional architectural type in China whose value has shifted from residential use toward cultural heritage preservation, historical research, and cultural-tourism exhibition. In subtropical regions such as F...
Image-based streetscape assessments commonly report separate perception scores or an aggregate index. Joint profiles additionally identify which unfavorable scores occur together. We examine joint lower-tail profiles of transferred safety, beauty, an...
One-hour-ahead electricity-load forecasting offers a potential reference for near-term demand monitoring, while its practical implementation requires a balance between predictive performance and input-data requirements. This study develops one-hour-a...
To improve the mechanical performance of large-size concrete-filled steel tubes without increasing the steel consumption, this study conducted a numerical analysis of the flexural behavior of concrete-filled square steel tubes with embedded steel ang...
Out-of-plane (OOP) collapse of precast concrete structures with pinned beam–column connections was repeatedly observed during the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Türkiye. These observations indicate that the OOP stability...
The homogenization of rural settlement landscapes and the erosion of place identity represent a global challenge in heritage conservation, yet existing studies have rarely incorporated both objective place characteristics and subjective place percept...
Building assessment asks what an environment offers its occupants. It rarely asks what the environment requires from them. Yet perceiving, interpreting, navigating and adapting to a space consumes attention, working memory and self-regulatory effort...
Subway stations are typical underground transitional spaces with complex thermal environments. Existing studies often characterize the comfort zone by temperature alone and lack cross-climate comparisons, limiting practical applicability. To address...
Shield tunnelling in upper-soft and lower-hard mixed ground is characterised by strong geological heterogeneity and coupled construction risks, including uneven cutterhead loading, face instability, cutter wear and abnormal fluctuations in tunnelling...
Continuous tower crane monitoring enables the recording of changing operating conditions, but interpreting these measurements requires a model of how operational risk states evolve. We combine the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMA...
Crack formation in building sealants allows moisture ingress, accelerates degradation, and reduces building envelope durability. Traditional visual inspections are slow and subjective, underscoring the need for automated, quantitative methods. This s...
Radiative cooling architectural coatings reject solar gains while emitting terrestrial heat toward the cold sky, offering a passive route to reduce envelope heat gain and mechanical cooling demand. Its central argument is that high solar-weighted ref...
Earth has been used as a construction material for thousands of years and is now receiving renewed attention as a building material with minimal environmental effects. This study explores the development of earth-based construction, with particular a...
The Gothic–Renaissance crossing of the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba constitutes one of the most structurally complex sectors of the monument owing to the coexistence of Islamic and Christian construction systems developed over sever...
To improve the prediction accuracy of operational carbon emissions and clarify the influence mechanisms of spatial form in high-rise residential buildings in hot-summer and cold-winter regions, this study proposes an integrated framework combining mi...
Residential buildings are emerging as candidate spaces for the adoption of smart technologies, yet their specific needs and constraints remain underexplored compared to commercial settings. This review critically examines technologies that have alrea...
To enhance the comprehensive service performance of road asphalt mastic, untreated bamboo fiber (UBF), acid-treated bamboo fiber (ABF), and alkali-treated bamboo fiber (NBF) were prepared for asphalt modification. Basic physical test, contact angle s...
As the digital economy expands rapidly, intelligent-green synergy among construction enterprises has become an inevitable path toward industrial sustainable development, with green innovation acting as its core anchor. Based on the resource-based vie...
As marine engineering advances, the deformation and load-bearing performance of uplift piles in calcareous sand under sustained loading have become increasingly important to the long-term performance of marine foundations. Static uplift tests and sus...
Digitalisation and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) will reshape sustainable materials engineering by enabling data-driven design and performance prediction for smart infrastructure. In this study, experimental durability assessment and mach...
Previous studies have often focused on individual supply parameters or limited operating conditions, leaving the combined effects of supply air temperature, velocity, and angle insufficiently characterized in compact, high-density dormitory environme...
Cooling demand in hot–arid regions motivates façades that regulate solar gain and airflow. This study quantifies biomimetic façade strategies for a Tripoli residence using DesignBuilder/EnergyPlus. The surveyed single-storey Utili...
Over the past decade, three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) has moved from a laboratory curiosity to a technology that has produced hundreds of built structures worldwide. Despite this momentum, the engineering conditions under which printing ge...
The performance of healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that healthcare environments can support or hinder critical aspects of pandemic response, such as infection control, surge capacity, workforce safety, and continuity o...
Conventional laboratory fatigue tests are often limited to single-stage loading. As a result, they do not fully capture the progressive damage caused by repeated traffic loading. To address this limitation, this study proposes an integrated multi-sta...
RGB–IR multimodal inspection can combine visible surface information with thermal-response patterns for building-defect assessment, but joint learning may develop class-specific information unevenly across modality branches. This study proposes...
Old residential community renovation projects are implemented in continuously occupied living environments, where changing site conditions, evolving resident demands, and multi-stakeholder coordination cannot be fully addressed through advance planni...
Modern historic buildings encode exchanges among social development, regional culture, and construction technology. The surviving buildings in the five former concessions of Hankou display diverse facade compositions and window, door, and column form...
Accurate extraction of temperature-induced structural responses from bridge monitoring data is the core prerequisite for constructing a more precise regression model linking the temperature field to temperature-induced responses, whose outputs can pr...
Private higher education has expanded substantially, yet the morphology of its campus stocks remains underexamined. This study develops a mixed-data typology of the complete population of private higher education campuses in Guangdong Province, China...
Reliable estimation of in situ concrete compressive strength from non-destructive testing (NDT) remains challenging in heterogeneous existing structures, particularly when building-specific datasets are small. This study presents a reproducible field...
Traditional villages in karst natural heritage areas are distinctive rural built environments where natural, cultural, and landscape elements intertwine. Identifying relationships between built-environment characteristics and visual preference is imp...
The extensive use of composite materials, particularly Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs), across a wide range of industrial applications has generated a critical demand for robust and reliable structural health monitoring (SHM) and damage detectio...
Acoustic performance is an important component of interior environmental quality, yet conventional single-value reverberation time metrics may provide limited perceptual information because they do not explicitly account for the spectral energy distr...
Early damage detection in External Thermal Insulation Composite Systems (ETICSs) is essential for building safety, yet conventional non-destructive testing methods are often hindered by the wave-absorbing properties of the insulation layer. To overco...
The relationships between land cover, vegetation, urban morphology, and the atmosphere play a significant role in shaping urban land surface temperatures. Precise prediction of such spatiotemporal variations in thermal patterns is essential for asses...
Soil–structure interaction (SSI) plays a decisive role in the settlement behavior of shallow foundations, where soil stiffness, structural stiffness, and load application interact in a coupled manner. While traditional SSI concepts such as the...
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