The assessment systems for green building have been developed and implemented for decades. Well-known systems include the U.S. system LEED, the U.K. system BREEAM, the Canadian system GB tools, and the Japanese system CASBEE. These systems will be di...
In the face of global challenges related to climate change and sustainable development, comparing attitudes and infrastructure in the field of electromobility and renewable energy sources in different countries becomes crucial. The question of differ...
Infrastructure plays a pivotal role in a nation’s economic and societal progress. However, due to the substantial expenses and the constraints of a limited government budget, the need to assess the condition of each infrastructure and identify...
The infrastructure construction sector is a significant source of carbon emissions, and more stringent procurement requirements are central to meeting reduction targets in this demand-led and project-based industry. This paper aims to analyze the imp...
Against the backdrop of China’s dual carbon goals, understanding how terrain complexity affects the decoupling linkage between infrastructure investment and carbon emissions is crucial for developing differentiated low-carbon strategies. This s...
Governments enter into public–private partnership (PPP) agreements to attract private financing and bring innovation to the development of their sustainable public infrastructure; however, PPP projects are marked by their complexity and are dri...
Due to their higher energy efficiency and better economic performance, distributed energy resource (DER) systems are expected to be one of the main energy supply forms in the future and have gained increasing attention in recent years. Thus, there is...
Reinforced concrete crack repair and maintenance costs are around 84% to 125% higher than construction costs, which emphasises the need to increase the infrastructure service life. Prolongation of the designed service life of concrete structures can...
This work presents a detailed breakdown of the energy conversion chains from intermittent electricity to a vehicle, considering battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). The traditional well-to-wheel analysis is adapte...
Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) is recognised internationally as an approach for managing urban water challenges while enhancing society and the environment through the provision of multiple co-benefits. This research employed an online survey to inv...
Water distribution systems (WDSs) are vital components of public infrastructure, ensuring the safe supply of drinking water. However, they are increasingly exposed to technical failures, contamination events, natural disasters, and cyberattacks. This...
The green transformation of the built environment is aimed at improving sustainability and can be supported by digitalization, which has become a significant tool to support the supply, integration, and management of information throughout the constr...
The paper analyses the effectiveness of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) in sensitive alpine environments by studying processes and selected case studies in Austria and Germany. The framework used to evaluate the respective effectiveness is...
The extensive availability of electricity and hydrogen in Texas provides enormous potential for adopting alternative energy for transportation. The operational phase of alternative energy infrastructure is an essential element in its environmental im...
Infrastructure plays the largest role in the amount of annual emissions, so much so that investments promoted in the European Union must be subjected to a careful assessment of the sustainability of projects. The current landscape for assessing the s...
As climate change-induced weather variability increases, various green infrastructure plans, such as stream ecosystems, have been studied to overcome ecological and environmental problems arising from extreme weather events; however, our understandin...
Modern Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) allow users to create and maintain centrally stored cryptographic certificates. These infrastructures use a so-called certificate chain. At the root of the chain, a root Certification Authority (CA) is respons...
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim to identify and understand the obstacles and barriers in applying electronic exams successfully in the process of distance education. We followed an exploratory descriptive approach through a questionna...
This study aims to assess the potential risks of setting up a hydrogen infrastructure in the Netherlands. An integrated risk assessment framework, capable of analyzing projects, identifying risks and comparing projects, is used to identify and analyz...
Recent concerns about alleged insufficient water provision to the poor in Detroit, USA, has put the Human Right to Water (HRW) into the international discussion. The paper asks: “To what extent did international human rights treaties make HRW judicia...
We provide an overview about the research done in the field of airport and airline operations with a specific focus on a fast, reliable and sustainable passenger boarding. The reliable prediction operational processes along the aircraft air-ground tr...
Ensuring the sustainability of transportation infrastructure for electric vehicles (e-trans) is increasingly imperative in the pursuit of decarbonization goals and addressing the pressing energy shortage. By prioritizing the development and maintenan...
A model of a composite index of the development level digital economy of regions in various sizes is proposed. It is based on a functional network as a kind of directed graph, structured by levels based on the principles of hierarchy, modularity and...
The location of electric vehicle charging facilities is of great significance in promoting the use of electric vehicles. Most existing electric vehicle location models, including the flow refueling location model (FRLM) and its flexible reformulation...
Technological advancements in the cloud field are becoming widely used on a large scale in increasing activity sectors. Agriculture is an important domain in everyday life, central to human existence. This research comparatively analyzes two proposed...
This paper compares national hydrogen (H2) infrastructure plans in Canada, the United States (the USA), Singapore, and Sri Lanka, four countries with varying geographic and economic outlooks but shared targets for reaching net-zero emissions by 2050....
As one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it is critical for India to build climate-resilient infrastructure. Its rapidly increasing population growth and the consequent migration to urban areas, coupled with climate risks, have made infr...
Urbanization and climate change are increasing pluvial flooding risks, thereby intensifying the need for more adaptive stormwater governance in Chinese Sponge City projects. Although public participation is widely recognized as important, current res...
Expert assessments of the ecological impacts of road construction in natural ecosystems were examined through a cross-disciplinary comparative perspective. Data were collected from experts in civil engineering, urban and regional planning, forest eng...
The development of the smart grid (SG) has the potential to bring significant improvements to the energy generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. Hence, adequate handling of fluctuating energy demands is required. This can only be achieved...
The successful implementation of infrastructure projects through public–private partnerships (PPPs) significantly relies on a well-designed procurement scheme; however, there is currently no established systematic decision-making model to identify th...
This study introduces an innovative and scalable approach for automated road surface assessment by integrating Mobile Mapping System (MMS)-based LiDAR data analysis with an open-source WebGIS platform. In a U.S.-based case study, over 20 datasets wer...
Quantifying and controlling fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas facilities remains essential for addressing climate goals, but the costs associated with monitoring millions of production sites remain prohibitively expensive. Current thinking,...
Spring conditions may influence reproduction in the Gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus, but their effects are difficult to separate from prey variation. We compared 66 nesting territories in 2024 and 69 in 2025 across natural tree nests, artificial nests mo...
Updating the road infrastructure requires the potential mass adoption of the road studs currently used in car detection, speed monitoring, and path marking. Road studs commonly include RF transceivers connecting the buried sensors to an offsite base...
The role of infrastructure in encouraging transportation cycling in smaller cities with a low prevalence of cycling remains unclear. To investigate the relationship between the presence of infrastructure and transportation cycling in a small city (Le...
Identifying decarbonization strategies at the district level is increasingly necessary to align the development of urban projects with European climate neutrality objectives. It is well known that district heating and cooling networks are an attracti...
This study investigates for the first time how public charging infrastructure usage differs under the presence of diverse pricing models. About 3 million charging events from different European countries were classified according to five different pr...
Energy is crucial to the development of human civilization. Energy infrastructure, such as oil and gas pipelines, power generation systems, and storage facilities, provide core support for the exploitation and utilization of various types of energy....
Open Building Information Modelling (OpenBIM) is a collaborative project management process. Its application to road infrastructures is currently limited. OpenBIM standards for infrastructure are still under development. One of these standards is the...
This paper presents a model that establishes a relationship between the financial resources allocated to maintain and replace railway station infrastructure assets and the resulting infrastructure quality. Until now, there has been no known relations...
“Bikeability” is a measure of a city’s suitability for a bicycle-based lifestyle. Cities are striving to increase the number of cyclists in their traffic to decrease congestion and increase sustainability. Bikeability is therefore a...
The Industry 4.0 idea influences the development of both charging stations and electromobility development, due to its emphasis on device communication, cooperation, and proximity. Therefore, in electromobility development, growing attention is paid...
The transportation of bulk or liquid cargo is crucial for ensuring the delivery of such cargo to areas lacking well-established infrastructure or favorable natural conditions. These areas may lack sufficient rail or air transport accessibility, or ma...
Cambodia suffers from devastating droughts in the dry season and floods in the wet season. These events’ impacts are further amplified by ineffective water resources infrastructure that cannot retain water during the dry season. Water harvesting (the...
This article presents an overview of a new multilayer node event processing (MNEP) method for improved data center energy efficiency and event management monitoring in its physical infrastructure. Event management is essential for the provision and m...
Provided that, if made in a sustainable way, urban planning contributes to urban sustainability and to the welfare of urban populations, comparative applied planning studies have a societal relevance in addition to the scientific one. Nevertheless, w...
This paper provides a comprehensive review on the use of infrared thermography to detect delamination on infrastructures and buildings. Approximately 200 pieces of relevant literature were evaluated, and their findings were summarized. The factors af...
The wide adoption of environmentally friendly solutions for transportation, such as Electric Vehicles (EVs), is crucial to reducing greenhouse gases and mitigate the effects of climate change. To meet the growing demand of EVs, enough Charging Statio...
The sustainable management of the water supply system requires methodologies to monitor, repair, or replace the aging infrastructure, but more importantly, it must be able to assess the condition of the networks and predict their behavior over time....
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