The growing interest in biomimicry in built environments highlights the awareness raised
among designers on the potentials nature offers to human and system function …

The process of bid evaluation is subject to indetermination, imprecision, and uncertainty in
terms of their alternative-criterion decision appraisals. To address this issue, this paper …

A change in thinking has been ongoing in the architecture and building industry in response
to growing concern over the role of the building industry in the excessive consumption of …

Purpose Construction firms worldwide are increasingly taking pragmatic steps towards
addressing environmental problems arising from their activities. Nonetheless, there is a …

Biomimicry is an interdisciplinary design approach that provides solutions to engineering
problems by taking inspiration from nature. Given the established importance of biomimicry …

In the Panama context, energy consumption in the building sector is mostly related to the
conditioning of indoor spaces for cooling and lighting. Different nature strategies can be …

Globally, the construction sector is regarded as one of the major contributors to greenhouse
gas emissions, energy consumption, freshwater usage, resource utilization, and solid waste …

Bioinspired innovation is a growing field and is often attributed to sustainable design
outcomes. After reviewing existing literature in bionics, biomimetics, and biomimicry, a …

Infrastructure must be resilient to both known and unknown disturbances. In the past,
resilient infrastructure design efforts have tended to focus on principles of robustness and …

Worldwide, artificial reefs are being installed to simultaneously attract recreational divers
and protect deteriorating natural reefs. This study uses a bibliometric review of artificial coral …