With the rising impact of greenhouse gas emissions, resource depletion, and the global interest in sustainability advancements within all sectors, construction industry practitioners are also interested in incorporating ...

The advancement in the internet of things (IoT) technologies has made it possible to control and monitor electronic devices at home with just the touch of a button. This has made people lead much more comfortable lifestyles. ...

With rising water scarcity leading to a risk of affecting 1.69 to 2.37 billion people in urban residents, the treatment and reuse of wastewater have been identified as one of the main avenues to preserve global water ...

The study of environmental sound classification (ESC) has become popular over the years due to the intricate nature of environmental sounds and the evolution of deep learning (DL) techniques. Forest ESC is one use case of ...

This study investigates the design and development of a pyrolysis reactor for batch-type biochar production from rice husks. The main objective is to develop an appropriate technology to regulate pyrolysis temperature and ...

The prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders is a common issue in many occupations involving manual handling activities. In order to aid manual workers in reducing the burden on the musculoskeletal system, ...

This study investigated the importance of applying explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) on different machine learning (ML) models developed to predict the strength characteristics of basalt-fiber reinforced concrete ...

This paper presents the outcome of a research study conducted to establish seismic fragilities of school building typologies in Sri Lanka. The school buildings in Sri Lanka can be characterised as lightly reinforced concrete ...

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has seen tremendous growth in the last ten years since the early 2000s and has already entered a mature phase. While considered the most widely used solution for Machine Translation, its ...

Purpose – Quality management barriers have been discovered in construction small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), determining their long-term survival. Despite the recognition of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) as a valuable ...