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Traditional villages embody tangible repositories of historical, cultural, and geographical heritage, and their sustainable and authentic development poses a global challenge. By applying complex adaptive system (CAS) theory via a bottom–up app...

Reinforced concrete (RC) walls are designed to carry vertical and horizontal loads which may need to be rehabilitated and strengthened to enhance their load-bearing capacity due to increased loading demands, environmental factors, or lateral forces....

Karst soil caves are prone to induce insufficient bearing capacity and excessive settlement of engineering foundations, which in turn trigger sudden ground surface collapse. In this study, multi-stage cyclic loads were designed to simulate traffic lo...

With the intensive development of urban underground space, excavations adjacent to existing tunnels have become increasingly common. This study investigates the response of adjacent tunnels and surrounding soil to multi-step foundation pit excavation...

Reasonable adjustment of construction parameters is of great value to reduce surface settlement and ensure the safety of shield construction. A novel hybrid intelligent optimization framework based on combination weighting and gray correlation analys...

The adoption of Lean Construction has become established as an effective strategy for improving efficiency and reducing waste in construction projects; however, its implementation faces numerous challenges. The objective of this study is to analyze,...

This study proposes a Kalman filter-based method to optimize the placement of accelerometers in buildings, formulated as a multi-objective problem that simultaneously minimizes the number of sensors and the state estimation error. State-space equatio...

In bridge health monitoring, structural responses are strongly coupled with temperature effects and vehicle load effects, making it difficult for conventional fixed thresholds and single data-driven approaches to simultaneously achieve environmental...

Under the influence of China’s rapid urbanization, traditional villages and intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as an organically coupled cultural ecosystem, are faced with severe spatial imbalance. Quantitative analysis and mechanism interpret...

Addressing the issues of the complex mechanical responses and significant spatial effects of asymmetric large-span cable-stayed steel box girder bridges with shared public-rail traffic under operational loads (live load, static wind, and structural t...

To address the small ATC-63 record set for collapse-oriented motion selection and the limited interpretability of data-driven approaches, this study proposes a framework for identifying structural-collapse-critical ground motions. Using 5074 records...

Urban waterfront walkways are everyday public built environments where people commonly engage in slow walking, yet evidence remains limited that links what pedestrians see to immediate psychophysiological responses under controlled first-person dynam...

The construction sector in developing countries continues to face persistent challenges related to cost overruns, projects delays, and compromised quality performance. In Oman, these concerns have hindered the ability of construction industry to achi...

Under the backdrop of the “dual carbon” strategy, leveraging renewable energy to promote low-carbon renovations of existing buildings has become an important path for the construction industry to achieve sustainable development. Currently...

As intelligent construction technology advances, new projects have become more technology-intensive, collaborative, and multi-objective. Traditional team formation methods based on people’s experience can no longer meet their complex management...

In the design of shaking table tests concerning saturated sand–pile interactions, quantitatively achieving similarity in liquefaction responses between the model and the prototype has long been a challenging task. In addition, the dynamic shear...

Construction is responsible for 40% of global carbon emissions, yet embodied carbon (EC) assessment is rarely integrated into standard building design workflows in developing countries. This research presents and validates a BIM-integrated EC assessm...

Failure of concrete structures is a multiscale process where macroscale at the structural level and mesoscale at the heterogeneous material level are both involved. A multiscale approach is necessitated in the simulation of concrete failure. Based on...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely applied in building research and practice to quantify environmental impacts, yet its contribution to architectural decision-making remains limited. This paper argues that this limitation is not primarily methodol...

To enhance the load-bearing capacity of conventional reinforced concrete (RC) columns and address the issue of longitudinal reinforcement buckling, this study proposes a novel composite column strengthened with small-diameter ultra-high-performance c...

Recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs) typically exhibit higher chloride permeability and lower strength compared to natural aggregates, potentially accelerating steel corrosion and compromising the durability of reinforced concrete structures. While fu...

Digital twin (DT) is increasingly adopted in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector to support data-driven modeling, monitoring, and decision-making across the building lifecycle. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications...

The acoustic design of outpatient halls is often ignored, yet the acoustic environment significantly impacts patients’ physical and mental well-being as well as their visit experience. This paper takes the outpatient hall of a hospital in South...

Weld cracking is a predominant damage mode in tubular connections. Such welds tend to crack prematurely before reaching their ultimate load-bearing capacity, and the damage mode of cracked joints differs significantly from that of seamless ones. This...

This research investigates the dynamic response of three-dimensional concrete beams with coated aggregates subjected to transient wave propagation induced by piezoelectric actuators (PZT-lead zirconate titanate). The aim was to assess the effects of...

Additive manufacturing is increasingly used in construction, yet reliable quality assurance for three-dimensional-printed concrete elements remains a major challenge. Existing digital defect-detection methods, particularly voxel-based and mesh-based...

Improving the simulation efficiency of the spectral representation method (SRM) for nonstationary fluctuating wind fields has attracted considerable attention. To this end, this study proposes a method based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) d...

Microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCMs) offer a promising way to enhance the thermal performance of cement-based materials; however, their incorporation often compromises mechanical properties and durability, limiting practical application....

The application of vibration monitoring integrated with sparse Auto-Encoder (SAE) networks is investigated in this paper with the objective of detecting and localizing structural anomalies or damages. Unlike previous studies on SAE networks, the meth...

The rapid development of medical technologies requires architects to implement a future-proofing approach while designing medical facilities, despite the inherent uncertainty of long-term change. This challenge is particularly visible within hospital...

Observations of energy and carbon dioxide fluxes in the urban centres of rapidly developing countries remain limited. In this study, one year of eddy covariance measurements was conducted in the city centre of Hefei to investigate how underlying urba...

γ-dicalcium silicate (γ-C₂S) is a carbonatable binder with excellent carbonation reactivity. However, its extremely low hydration activity prevents the paste from setting and hardening properly, making it difficult to be directly cast and...

Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) can substantially increase renewable electricity utilization in buildings under China’s “dual-carbon” targets. Yet, fixed photovoltaic (FPV) windows cannot respond to seasonal and diurnal va...

As a significant component of hydraulic cultural heritage within the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, ancient stone bridges serve as vital physical evidence reflecting the evolutionary patterns of water conservancy and settlement spaces in Wuxi. Consequent...

Industrial heritage embodies the complex interplay between historical continuity, technological development, and social spatial transformation. However, existing assessment methods often rely on qualitative judgments or fragmented criteria, limiting...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) concrete, with excellent properties such as light weight, thermal insulation, and soundproofing, is widely applied in construction engineering. However, its complex heterogeneous internal structure makes it difficult to qui...

During long-term service, concrete structures are exposed to various adverse factors, which often lead to the formation of numerous surface cracks. These cracks pose serious threats to structural safety and durability. Therefore, accurately identifyi...

Recently, due to the expansion of telecommunication and power networks, as well as other structures, the demand for designing efficient and durable tall supporting columns has increased. Efficient steel columns are well known, including prestressed s...

The third place refers to the social environment that is separate from the two usual social environments of the home “first place” and the workplace “second place”. Places that fulfil other functions in addition to food and dr...

Focusing on the construction of a 58-m-diameter double-layer steel space frame dome at the Han Culture Museum Assembly Hall, this study addresses scheme selection and safety control challenges in staggered jacking of large-span spatial structures. A...

In high-density urban environments, residential design often faces a conflict between maximizing landscape access and maintaining energy-oriented compactness. This study proposes a target-based visibility analysis framework to optimize high-rise form...

Since the Brundtland Report (1987), its definition has anchored sustainable development. An EBSCOhost co-mention scan (1987–2025) finds 259,112 records linking “sustainable development” with the Brundtland Report—used only as...

This article presents numerical models for unbraced steel frames filled with structural masonry under cyclic loads, offering insights into their behavior and design potential. Using simplified micro-modeling in ABAQUS with the Concrete Damage Plastic...

Composed of recycled small-particle coarse aggregates with virgin large-particle crushed stones, satisfactory composite-recycled aggregates are developed to overcome the shortcomings of large particle recycled coarse aggregate, making a new concrete...

Viscoelastic (VE) dampers are widely used for structural response control, but broader engineering adoption is often constrained by temperature- and amplitude-dependent properties and limited full-scale evidence on reliable performance when deformati...

Amid accelerating global urbanization, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, as a repository of multi-ethnic architectural heritage, plays a crucial role in preserving plateau cultural diversity and sustaining harmonious human–environment relationsh...

In recent years, with the widespread application of double-column pier bridges, their seismic performance has attracted increasing attention. However, traditional seismic performance analysis treats piers and bearings as separate research objects, la...

Landscape quality significantly impacts residents’ well-being through visual perception, particularly among the elderly who exhibit heightened sensitivity to environmental stimuli. Therefore, this study investigates how landscape configurations...

Despite the aesthetic potential of free-form envelopes in large-scale public buildings, geometric interlacing complexity, ambiguous façade boundaries, and constructability translation gaps persist as systemic barriers. This study addresses the...

This study proposes an integrated façade design framework that harmonizes the creative divergence of Generative AI with the economic efficiency of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA). To address low productivity in the construction in...