Energy & Green Tech
Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered "green roofs," street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by ...
Jul 4, 2024
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Engineering
Researchers have developed a system to address risks caused by liquefaction and subsidence, two soil deformation events triggered by earthquakes that cause buildings to tilt and sink. The team includes Professor Shinya Inazumi ...
May 30, 2024
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Engineering
In a study published in Geo-spatial Information Science, a research group led by Yuyu Zhou from The University of Hong Kong developed an integrated framework that achieves 94% accuracy in mapping building functions across ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Security
As technology continues to advance, the likelihood of malevolent attacks and subsequent failures on society's critical infrastructures increases. Blackouts, water shortages, transport collapses—these potential threats to ...
Oct 30, 2023
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Engineering
More than two-thirds of the world's population is expected to live in cities by 2050, according to the United Nations. As urbanization advances around the globe, researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University ...
Oct 26, 2023
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Engineering
If you live on the East Coast, you may have driven through roundabouts in your neighborhood countless times. Or maybe, if you're in some parts farther west, you've never encountered one of these intersections. But roundabouts, ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Engineering
A team of urban planners and information scientists at Tsinghua University in China has found that an AI-based urban planning system was able to outperform human experts in creating urban planning designs. In their study, ...
Engineering
Research in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures offers guidance on securing water critical infrastructures and reaffirms the urgency of protecting environment monitoring technologies as cities evolve into ...
Jul 28, 2023
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Automotive
The U.S. has a car-centric culture that is inseparable from the way its communities are built. One striking example is the presence of parking lots and garages. Across the country, parking takes up an estimated 30% of space ...
Jul 27, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Urban disasters bring uncertainties to society, urban transportation systems, and businesses. In a new study, researchers examined urban emergencies such as terrorist attacks and subway shutdowns to compare how a traditional ...
Apr 21, 2023
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