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Buildings, Volume 9, Issue 8

August 2019 - 16 articles

Cover Story: Underground construction is perceived as being significantly more costly and more energy-consuming than comparable surface construction. Studies that have attempted to quantify this difference tend to compare built projects in heterogeneous conditions. Our contribution to this issue examines the preconceptions the construction industry has about underground construction, presents the method and results of two lifecycle studies of a hypothetical commercial building project in different geological contexts and finds energy consumption and cost to be lower than expected. Our results help to dispel certain misconceptions about underground construction, which can contribute positively to urban sustainable development goals. View this paper.
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,356 Views
15 Pages

The glass curtain wall system is an architectural, functional innovation where failures of insulation systems create areas of reduced resistance to heat transfer—thermal bridges—during a building’s operational lifetime. These failur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,655 Views
15 Pages

The envelope structures of buildings are exposed to heat-humidity conditions. The heat and humidity flow through these structures depends on the boundary conditions of the indoor and outdoor environments. This paper shows different initial conditions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,921 Views
19 Pages

Hanok is a building style in Korean traditional architecture that presently supports a specialty of urban scenery and residential environment for regeneration in Korea. However, it is difficult to review or evaluate for the performance of Hanok, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,804 Views
9 Pages

Dynamic Displacement of an Aluminum Frame Using Close Range Photogrammetry

  • Setareh Ghaychi Afrouz,
  • Mohammad Reza Razavi,
  • Ashkan Pourkand and
  • Claudia Mara Dias Wilson

Dynamic displacement measurement of objects can be challenging due to the limitations of conventional methods and pricey instrumentation of unconventional methods, such as laser scanners. In this research, Close Range Photogrammetry (CRP) is used as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,368 Views
17 Pages

Modern methods of designing and testing concrete must be extended to appropriate material engineering approaches. It is then crucial to link the properties of concrete with its structure described in a quantitative way. The aim of the article was to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,828 Views
19 Pages

Researchers have explored Building Information Modeling (BIM) utilization on complex buildings. However, limited research has been conducted investigating BIM implementation on simple projects. This study explored the perceptions of Architects, Gener...

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