Sustainable Building
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Efficient and accurate methods and models are ever-demanding to determining the user satisfaction in energy efficient buildings. Thus, several techniques are developed based on sustainable building assessment tools and standards to... more
Tabique construction is one of the main Portuguese traditional building techniques that use earth based building materials. It is peculiar building technique which uses corn's cob as a filling material for the external tabique walls.... more
Sustainable" and "ecological" are becoming fashionable words for advertising products: eco- logical car, ecological food, ecological bag, even ecological fuel. To claim that a product is sustainable or ecological helps to... more
... Graham, PM 2003. Building Ecology. ... Callenbach, E. 1975. Ecotopia , New York, NY: Bantam. View all references) to be delivered by the sustainable city at scales from buildings upwards. ... In Europe, a parallel movement of... more
Sustainable building is an abstract and broad concept encompassing many issues and thinking, with the aim to minimise adverse environmental impacts and promote resources eco-efficiency. In order to apply and achieve sustainable building... more
Sustainable construction movement has been deeply transforming the traditional construction sector. As an important part of the sustainable construction delivery system, sustainable/green building rating systems play an essential role in... more
Sustainable building design is paving the road for future building designs. In the research presented, a group of diverse civil engineering undergraduates designed a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified building and... more
Building designers are struggling to deeply integrate the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in projects. The review of the literature revealed that the available research is focused on linking the current practices,... more
Earlier this year, the United Nations released Buildings and Climate Change, which reports that 30-40% of all primary energy is used in buildings. A host of other authorities have joined the U.N. in calling for green building standards,... more
Research studies have shown that the initial energy embodied in a building can be as much as 67% of the operational energy over a 25 year period. With growing global concerns over material and resource consumption and the emissions of CO2... more
How can the concept of sustainable housing be implemented in Indonesia? Prompted by various housing problems, especially in dense urban areas, this research proposes an integrated approach towards the sustainability of housing projects,... more
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