This study aims to explore the life cycle environmental impacts of typical heating ventilation and air condition (HVAC) systems including variable air volume (VAV) system, chilled beam system and underfloor air distribution ...

Compressibility characteristics of landfilling and buried waste samples are highly heterogeneous, depending on various waste compositions, degree of organic matters, decomposition, and so on. Measured data presented in ...

Waste in construction is important not only from the perspective of productivity but also from the environmental considerations. Many times actual percentage of waste generation is much higher than envisaged initially ...

Structural Health Monitoring has drawn more attention from bridge engineers since the tragic collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge. In health monitoring of bridges, visual inspection has been the principal technique, ...

The terms “green” and “green technology” are used to highlight environmental conservation or minimal adverse impact on the environment. In this context, a green building could be defined as one, which has been designed, ...

This manuscript presents a bridge deterioration prediction method by using Markov chain model and Bayesian theory. Markov chain model works by defining discrete condition states and accumulating the probability of transition ...

Solid waste is a growing problem in urban areas of Sri Lanka and management of waste, both liquid and solid has become a critical environmental concern due to absence of engineered methods of disposing waste. Development ...

Ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), due to its pozzolanic nature, could be a great asset for the modern construction needs, because slag concretes can be of high performance, if appropriately designed. The use of ...

Many reinforced concrete structures around the world are deteriorated before their design life time due to environmental effects. Chloride attack is one of the major causes of deterioration of reinforced concrete structures. ...