Engineering
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology has developed the world's first shear-thickening-fluid–based (STF) stemming solution. This is the first time that an STF has been developed into a blasting construction ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Engineering
The impact of multi-story building design considerations on embodied emissions, cost, and operational energy has been revealed for the first time. Using a model, researchers estimate that 28% to 44% of yearly heating and ...
Mar 22, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
This weekend it happens once again: Europeans will put the clocks forward by one hour. With the start of daylight-saving time, discussions break out—as they do every year—about whether or not we should eliminate the time ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Engineering
A striking trend in modern architecture, freeform structures are one-of-a-kind buildings of unconventional shapes: museums, stadiums, luxury hotels, exhibition pavilions, or universities, for that matter—you need not look ...
Mar 15, 2023
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Hardware
Precast structures are like giant lego blocks made of concrete that are manufactured in a factory to enable seamless construction at a building site. Modern urban construction projects rely heavily on precast concrete structures ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Engineering
Heat pumps are a key technology for the heat transition, yet their implementation in existing multifamily buildings is a challenge. These buildings place special demands on the transfer systems for space heating and domestic ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Engineering
Global energy trends are shifting toward digitalization, decarbonization and decentralization. Global warming and climate anomalies attributable to environmental pollution featured in the daily news indicate that the threats ...
Mar 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
About 400,000 Maryland households, and nearly 30 percent of Baltimore residents, pay more than six percent of their income on energy bills, according to a new report by researchers from the Institute for Energy and Environmental ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Engineering
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced that it has developed D.N.A. (Data, Network, and AI) technologies to predict the levels of damage and aging of bridges for preventive maintenance.
Feb 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers demonstrated that window shades with a cellular or honeycomb structure provide higher energy savings during winter compared to generic venetian blinds and can save millions of tons ...
Feb 15, 2023
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In architecture, construction, engineering and real estate development the word building may refer to one of the following:
In this article, the first usage is generally intended unless otherwise specified.
Buildings come in a wide amount of shapes and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, to land prices, ground conditions, specific uses and aesthetic reasons.
Buildings serve several needs of society - primarily as shelter from weather and as general living space, to provide privacy, to store belongings and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat into the inside (a place of comfort and safety) and the outside (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasess of artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practices has also become part of the design process of many new buildings.
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