The resilience of building structures—as plain technical/physical/engineering systems or complex sociotechnical systems exposed to perturbations and change—has become increasingly important as natural disasters are on the rise and the wor...
Transitioning to a circular built environment can reduce the environmental impacts, resource consumption and waste generation emanating from buildings. However, there are many options to design circular building components, and limited knowledge on w...
This paper concerns research into the use of 3D-printed gyroid structures as a modern thermal insulation material in construction. The study focuses on the analysis of open-cell gyroid structures and their effectiveness in insulating external buildin...
Progressive encoding and transmission, i.e., a crucial technical foundation of 3D Web Geographic Information Systems (WebGIS), addresses the contradiction between massive 3D building data and limited network transmission capacity. Most progressive en...
Most of the existing approaches to the extraction of buildings from high-resolution orthoimages consider the problem as semantic segmentation, which extracts a pixel-wise mask for buildings and trains end-to-end with manually labeled building maps. H...
Achieving lightweight representations of building mesh models with accurate geometry and fine structural details is a key challenge in urban 3D modelling. Most existing mesh simplification methods focus on minimizing geometric error while neglecting...
In this study, the pore structure of a hardened phosphorous building gypsum body was optimised by blending an air-entraining agent with the appropriate water–paste ratio. The response surface test was designed according to the test results of t...
The European Commission has mandated the use of digital building logbooks (DBL) to encourage deep energy renovations and overcome barriers in building renovations. The current energy performance certificates (EPCs) focus on operational energy consump...
Mapping building structures is crucial for environmental change and impact assessment, and is especially important to accurately estimate fossil fuel CO2 emissions from human settlements. In this regard, the objective of this study is to develop nove...
Undoubtedly, most industrial buildings have a huge Life Cycle Cost (LCC) throughout their lifespan, and most of these costs occur in structural operation and maintenance costs, environmental impact costs, etc. Hence, it is necessary to think about a...
This paper proposes a building façade contouring method from LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) scans and photogrammetric point clouds. To this end, we calculate the confidence property at multiple scales for an individual point cloud to measure the...
Soil–structure interaction (SSI) refers to the dynamic interaction between a structure and the surrounding soil on which it rests. The behavior of the soil can significantly affect the response of the building structure. In the context of civil...
To tackle problems such as the destruction of topological structures and the loss of detailed features in the simplification of 3D building models, we propose a 3D building model simplification algorithm that considers detailed features and topologic...
Safety diagnosis through the surface inspection of existing buildings is a crucial fundamental inspection. However, the assessment results often differ depending on the investigator’s knowledge and experience, which poses challenges in ensuring...
Photovoltaic (PV)–building systems are commonly assessed using aggregated energy indicators that obscure the structural diversity of energy flows. This study introduces an entropy-based approach for quantifying the operational structure of ener...
Building segmentation for remote sensing images usually requires pixel-level labels which is difficult to collect when the images are in low resolution and quality. Recently, weakly supervised semantic segmentation methods have achieved promising per...
Scholars and engineers have increasingly focused on the safety of steel-structure buildings. An accurate analysis can substantially reduce the collapse probability of these buildings. This paper proposes a novel risk analysis model to assess the safe...
The impact of urban traffic on human health is significant. This research conducts field measurements in Guangzhou, China, focusing on a building situated near subgrade roads and viaducts to investigate the characteristics of airborne and structure-b...
The building sector has a significant potential to reduce the material resource demand needed for construction and therefore, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Digitalization can help to make use of this potential and improve sustainability throughout...
Under the increasing pressure of global emission reduction, prefabricated buildings are becoming more and more popular. As prefabricated building manufacturers and assemblers are emerging in the market, how do they make decisions of pricing, ordering...
The structural assessment of existing historical structures is a complex task due to the inner main difficulty in making up reliable models for structural analysis, able to include mechanical and geometrical nonlinearities, existing damage, complex c...
High-rise building safety is generally supported by pile-mat systems. They must be sturdy enough to withstand potential lateral loads brought on by earthquakes, wind, dredging, and machine vibrations, in addition to increased axial loads. An innovati...
The thermal comfort of occupants in the increasing number of modern buildings with glass curtain wall structures is of significant research interest. As the thermal sensitivity of building occupants varies with building features, situational factors,...
Building proximity was associated with species-specific patterns in urban tree growth, crown structure, and allometric relationships under arid conditions. Urban trees provide essential ecosystem services in arid cities, yet the extent to which surro...
A 3D city model is an intuitive tool that is used to describe cities. Currently, level-of-detail (LOD) technology is used to meet different visual demands for 3D city models by weighting the rendering efficiency against the details of the model. Howe...
The acquisition of building structures has broad applications across various fields. However, existing methods for inferring building structures predominantly depend on manual expertise, lacking sufficient automation. To tackle this challenge, we pro...
Assembled methods play a critical role in the construction of precast concrete structures. However, conventional dry-connections-like sleeve grouting joints in precast concrete structures lagged at a low construction and management efficiency with po...
In recent years, energy consumption has continuously been increasing, and the energy consumption proportion in buildings has risen yearly. In order to promote the carbon-neutral goal of carbon peaking, the building sector realizes green and low-carbo...
Building segmentation from high-resolution remote sensing images plays a crucial role in cadastral measurement, ecological monitoring, urban planning, and other applications. To address the current challenges in building segmentation from high-resolu...
This study developed a safety control structure model to analyze stakeholder interactions to improve safety in Korean building demolition projects. Legal stakeholders and safety measures were systematically incorporated into the System Theoretic Acci...
To meet the recent requirements of low-damage design, there is a growing need to retrofit building structures with a self-centering dissipation system. This system serves a dual purpose: reducing lateral drift and providing supplemental damping to en...
Given the widespread application of multi-story modular container building structures, this article proposes a new seismic isolation system called the “sliding friction isolation system (IS)” that utilizes friction energy dissipation betw...
Wide-area building-structure mapping from long-range airborne LiDAR requires image products that can represent building footprints, roof-height variations, and structural discontinuities with low computational latency. Airborne streak-tube imaging Li...
The online frequency estimation of forced harmonic vibrations on a building-like structure, using a nonlinear flexible vibration absorber in a cantilever beam configuration, is addressed in this article. Algebraic formulae to compute online the harmo...
Transparent single crystals of a new iodate Cs5[Sc2(IO3)9](IO3)2 were synthesized under mild hydrothermal conditions. X-ray diffraction of single crystal was used to determine the large crystal structure with 52 independent atoms, sp. gr. P21/c. The...
The valorisation of electric arc furnace (EAF) slag in construction materials can reduce the consumption of virgin raw materials while creating opportunities for CO2 mineralisation. However, the combined influence of EAF slag aggregate, aggregate par...
The safe and stable operation of the radial gate is highly essential for hydropower stations. As the dynamic load of gate, water flow generally causes the irregular distribution of strength, stiffness, and the stability of the gate structure. Traditi...
Steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) frame-bent hybrid structures are widely used in conventional island buildings of nuclear power plants because of their favorable seismic performance and economic efficiency. However, the seismic fragility of these stru...
Structural systems for tall buildings have gone through an evolutionary process. The rigid frame became popular in the first half of the 20th century but proved to be structurally inefficient beyond a certain height of tall buildings. The invention o...
The subject of this article is tall buildings with a load-bearing layout made of mass timber, erected between 2009 and 2025. The aim of the study is to introduce a typology and to systematise and synthesise knowledge concerning the spatial and materi...
The remarkable development of timber construction technologies in recent decades has led to an increase in the number of timber buildings worldwide, including multi-storey buildings. The design of timber buildings, especially those of greater height,...
Sustainable building involves reducing negative environmental impacts with a simultaneous increase in life quality. The aim is to optimize building performances while considering all aspects of sustainability: environmental, economic, and social. The...
An increased interest in decreasing the environmental impact of the construction sector and in vertical urbanization has renewed attention to timber as a primary structural material in multi-story buildings. This study investigated whether an existin...
The structural build-up of cementitious materials is the subject of more and more attention since it conditions several processes such as formwork pressure and multi-layer casting. However, this phenomenon originating from flocculation and chemical c...
Structuralism in architecture was a widespread international phenomenon in the post-war decades. It was an avant-garde architecture, in many cases even utopian. In contrast to this, the structural philosophy of the Swedish National Board of Building...
Structural efficiency of tapered tall buildings has been well recognized, and many tall buildings of tapered forms have been built throughout the world. Tall buildings are built with an enormous amount of building materials. As one of the most effici...
New developments of tall buildings of ever-growing heights have been continuously taking place worldwide. Consequently, many innovations in structural systems have emerged. This paper presents a retrospective survey of the main structural systems for...
The land section of the Huangdao end of the Jiaozhou Bay Second Submarine Tunnel is extensively underlain by the Quaternary Loose Accumulation Layer. The tunnel passes through a weathered granite fracture zone with well-developed rock joints beneath...
An urban residential building from the second half of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, the so-called tenement house, is a significant representative of the architecture of the developing urban fabric in Central Europe. The vertical...
The implementation of sustainable solutions in the design of buildings is one of the main elements in achieving the transition to sustainability. The variety of structural elements and availability of sustainable materials, and the different preferen...
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