Construction is the most resource intensive sector in the world. It consumes more than half of the total global resources; it is responsible for more than a third of the total global energy use …
G Foster - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020 - Elsevier
Circular economy strategies seek to reduce the total resources extracted from the environment and reduce the wastes that human activities generate in pursuit of human …
B Plevoets, K Van Cleempoel - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Adaptive reuse–the process of repairing and restoring existing buildings for new or continued use–is becoming an essential part of architectural practice. As mounting …
I Vardopoulos - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
Adaptive reuse constitutes a major factor for the city resource exploitation, to wit the sustainable urban development. Sustainable development potential in the wake of a former …
It is well acknowledged that low carbon emissions is one of the key factors contributing to sustainable urban development and effectively tackling climate change. Adaptive reuse of …
PA Bullen, PED Love - Structural survey, 2011 - emerald.com
There is growing acceptance that heritage buildings are an important element of Australia's social capital and that heritage conservation provides economic, cultural and social benefits …
RJ Yang, PXW Zou, J Wang - International journal of project management, 2016 - Elsevier
This research aims to model the interactive networks of the risks associated with different stakeholders in green building projects and to gain an understanding of the key risk …
Currently cities consume 60–80% of natural resources globally. They produce 50% of global waste and 75% of green-house gas emissions. The UN estimates that 66% of the world's …
The public release of ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence language model, caused wide-spread public interest in its abilities but also concern about the implications of the …