Given the great impacts associated with the construction and maintenance of infrastructures
in both the environmental, the economic and the social dimensions, a sustainable approach …

Scour is one of the main causes of bridge failures resulting in significant macro-economic
impacts, often beyond the direct costs of infrastructure damage. Given the pressure to …

In the current modern era of information and technology, the concept of Building Information
Modeling (BIM), has made revolutionary changes in different aspects of engineering design …

In the majority of ordinary housing development projects, instead of using complex
multicriteria decision-making systems, companies still rely on expert knowledge, checklists …

Cracks in concrete can cause the degradation of stiffness, bearing capacity and durability of
civil infrastructure. Hence, crack diagnosis is of great importance in concrete research. On …

Although bridges are integral parts of transportation networks, they are vulnerable to natural
hazards. The damage incurred during these natural hazards events leads to network …

Over the past years, bridge inspection practices and condition assessments were predicated
upon long-established manual and paper-based data collection methods which were …

A systematic methodology for condition assessment of the historic road bridges was needed
because of the poor and inadequate condition of bridges which cannot satisfy everyday-day …

The increase in traffic congestion in urban areas as a result of more private transport
intensifies the importance of promoting public transport and rail transport in particular. The …

As timber bridges have become archaic, they are no longer able to effectively service their
community. It is neither practical, nor possible, to replace all existing timber bridges, hence it …