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Evaluating the freeze–thaw phenomenon in sandwich-structured composites via numerical simulations and infrared thermography
(Springer, 2020-07-13)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe water ingress phenomenon in sandwich-structured composites used in the aerospace/aeronautical sector is a current issue. This type of defect can cause in the course of time several other defects at the boundary, such ... -
Results and insight gained from applying the EnergyCat energy-saving serious game in UK social housing
(Serious Games Society, 2020-06)
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Open AccessConcerns about climate change associated with the combustion of fossil fuels urge a call for widespread reductions in household energy use. Determining means of achieving this is a key challenge faced by environmental ... -
Operational Performance Indicators and Causality Analysis for Non-Residential Buildings
(2020-03)
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Open AccessDuring the operation and maintenance of a physical asset its performance may decrease. While an array of tools and methods have been developed to facilitate building performance assessment processes, their complexity and ... -
Thermographic 2D U-value map for quantifying thermal bridges in building façades
(2020-10-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThermal bridges accounted for 30% of the impact on the energy performance of European residential building stock. Nevertheless, European countries and their standards do not take into account the influences of this type ... -
COVID-19 lockdown effects on air quality by NO2 in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)
(Elsevier, 2020-11-01)
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Open AccessDuring the months of March and April 2020 we witnessed the largest-scale experiment in history in terms of air quality in cities. Any prediction of this experiment's results may be obvious to science, as it was totally ... -
Life-cycle environmental and cost-effective energy retrofitting solutions for office stock
(Elsevier, 2020-10-01)
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Open AccessThe European Green Deal establishes the need to renovate buildings in an energy efficient way, to address climate and environmental challenges. The purpose of this study was to devise a model for identifying environmental, ... -
Structural health monitoring with distributed optical fiber sensors of tunnel lining affected by nearby construction activity
(2020-09)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper addresses the implementation of a Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor system (DOFS) to the TMB L-9 metro tunnel in Barcelona for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) purposes as the former could potentially be affected ... -
Quantifying energy symbiosis of building-integrated agriculture in a mediterranean rooftop greenhouse
(2020-08)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyA major concern for sustainable development is urban systems energy consumption. A possible way to gain additional whole system energy efficiencies is to integrate rooftop greenhouses (iRTG) on unoccupied roofs. This work ... -
Comparison of methodologies for assessing desert dust contribution to regional PM10 and PM2.5 levels: a one-year study over Portugal
(2020-02)
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Open AccessDesert dust outbreaks may affect air quality. This study estimates the importance of African dust contribution to the PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations observed in rural regional background sites in Portugal. Desert dust ... -
A probabilistic performance evaluation for buildings and constructed assets
(2019-12)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe conservation state of buildings is of increasing interest due to the need to renovate aging building stock and provide a safe and healthy place for end users. Numerous uncertain factors have an impact on building ... -
Feasibility assessment of rooftop greenhouses in Latin America. The case study of a social neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador
(2019-08)
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Open AccessToday, food security has a critical place in the government agendas of developing countries. In Latin American case, urban contexts have been subject to radical transformations in the last decades, most apparently through ... -
Urban agriculture in the framework of sustainable urbanism
(2015)
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Open AccessAgriculture represents a crucial phase in the development of mankind. Although cities initially had close ties withagriculture, which was a key element in ancient civilisations, in modern twentieth-century urban plans, ...
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