Engineering
The green building materials market is expected to skyrocket in the next five years, catalyzed by an urgent need to build structures that can respond to more intense weather patterns and offer lower carbon footprints. But ...
Dec 20, 2021
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Engineering
Engineers at EPFL have studied the use of construction slabs that serve both as structural building elements and floor heating systems. Made of composite materials, these slabs could deliver heating performance on par with ...
Dec 20, 2021
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Engineering
A new report and online dashboard by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the first comprehensive characterization and segmentation of the U.S. building stock, providing a ...
Dec 15, 2021
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Engineering
When we think of tsunamis, we might picture a giant wall of water that wipes buildings off a beach, or knocks down houses along a coastline. But much of the devastation caused by a tsunami is created by the surge of moving ...
Dec 14, 2021
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Engineering
As a building material, concrete withstands the test of time. Its use dates back to early civilizations, and today it is the most popular composite choice in the world. However, it's not without its faults. Production of ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Business
There's a new Silicon Valley corporate name change on the block.
Dec 2, 2021
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Other
In case of an emergency, up-to-date information about the inside of buildings needs to be readily available for first responders. UT researcher Samer Karam developed a wearable mapping system (the ITC-Backpack) that can map ...
Nov 24, 2021
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Engineering
Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according to new research.
Nov 24, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
In line with the recent trend in remarkable advancement and performance improvement in deep learning, which is a subfield of artificial intelligence, there has been active research and applications in this field. In particular, ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Engineering
In Singapore, one group affected by the pandemic early on were the foreign workers, especially during 2020's spike in COVID-19 cases in dormitories. While several factors have been cited as factors driving the spike, the ...
Nov 19, 2021
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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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