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Architecture of the scape: thermal assessment of refugee shelter design in the extremes climates of Jordan, Afghanistan and South Sudan
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
In the face of the largest human displacement ever recorded in modern history more than 79.5 million persons around the world have been forced to flee their homes worldwide at the end of 2019, from which 30 million are ...
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Assessment of integrated solutions for the combined energy efficiency improvement and seismic strengthening of existing URM buildings
(MDPI, 2022-08-20)
The European building stock is an aging infrastructure, mainly built prior to building codes. Furthermore, 65% of these buildings are located in seismic regions, which need to be both energetic and seismically retrofitted ...
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A construction and demolition waste management model applied to social housing to trigger post-pandemic economic recovery in Mexico
(SAGE Publishing, 2022-07)
Buildings consume 40% of raw material and primary energy and generate 35% of industrial waste worldwide, making this sector play a main role in raw material depletion, energy consumption and carbon emissions which provoke ...
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Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) of construction products in Spain: current status and future challenges
(IOP Publishing, 2022)
The current decarbonisation scenario demands a decrease in embodied and operational environmental impacts of buildings, wherein the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method and the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) play ...
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Thermal comfort prediction in a building category: Artificial neural network generation from calibrated models for a social housing stock in southern Europe
(Elsevier, 2019-03-05)
A significant part of the housing stock in southern Europe is obsolete and in need of extensive retrofitting to improve its energy performance and thermal comfort. However, before adequate retrofit measures can be proposed ...
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Remote sensing for the assessment of ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation: A review of the methods applied
(Elsevier, 2022-08)
The study and assessment of ecosystem services through remote sensing has increased substantially over the last two decades, as evidenced by the publication of studies that have applied it. The technological development ...
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A multi-criteria decision support method towards selecting feasible and sustainable housing renovation strategies
(Elsevier, 2021-01-01)
This research presents a decision support method for housing managers to identify the most appropriate renovation strategy, which combines a multi-criteria assessment of ten renovation factors together with an economic ...
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Acoustical retrofit of existing residential buildings: Requirements and recommendations for sound insulation between dwellings in Europe and other countries worldwide
(Elsevier, 2020-05)
Exposure to noise is proven to have important repercussions on human comfort and health conditions. In recent decades, efforts to increase awareness among users have focused on highlighting the benefits of an appropriate ...
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Integrated urban regeneration based on an interdisciplinary experience in Lisbon
(SAGE Publications, 2020)
Las políticas europeas aconsejan enfoques holísticos con equipos interdisciplinares en el abordaje de la regeneración urbana del parque edificado. Esta investigación presenta la experiencia y el resultado de una colaboración ...
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On the efficiency of impact sound insulation systems on prefabricated lightweight floor and on standard homogeneous base-floor
(Elsevier, 2019-07-15)
Considering the impact noise as a major social issue in many countries, extensive work have been developed aimed at reducing the noise level in dwellings. Laboratory tests were carried out to investigate the acoustic ...