The "Tianzihao" colony was built by the French Jesuits in the 1890s. As one of the earliest examples of the French Catholic Church's mission in China,......
In this paper, a seismic hazard assessment (SHA) of the Shigo Kas hydropower project has been performed by deterministic and probabilistic approaches.......
Infilled reinforced concrete (IRC) frames are a very common construction typology, not only in developing countries such as Pakistan but also in south......
Buildings inevitably deteriorate with time. Schools buildings are no exception and require refurbishment at times. Despite the UK Government announcin......
Smart construction enterprises are the key subjects in the development and practical transformation of smart building technology, and their sustainabl......
Construction and demolition (C&D) activities generate a large amount of waste and have significant impacts on the environment. Thus, it is necessa......
In seismic risk estimation, among the different types of fragility curves used (judgement-based, mechanical, empirical/observational, hybrid), the mec......
Energy retrofitting of existing residential buildings has a great potential to achieve a sustainable future. One important way to reach this potential......
Due to the tremendous increase in the population and emerging energy crisis, the surging demand for the thermal management of buildings has become ess......
In view of the first domestic offshore suspension bridge with caisson foundation, this paper mainly studies the bonding properties between underwater ......
Blockchain is regarded as a potential technology for transforming the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, and the number of re......
Urban Photovoltaic (PV) systems can provide large fractions of the residential electric demand at socket parity (i.e., a cost below the household cons......
Public-private partnership (PPP) has been widely applied in China and many developing countries in the recent decade. As new PPP projects gradually en......
This paper proposed an optimization method to minimize the building energy consumption and visual discomfort for a passive building in Shanghai, China......
This study investigated, using validated computational fluid dynamics techniques, the actual performance of portable air purifiers for reducing the in......
