Abstract Every year, the United States is faced with billions of dollars in damages and large
numbers of deaths due to natural hazards. Resilience to these hazards has become a …

Our ever-evolving built environment is continuously facing emerging needs for housing,
work, health, and mobility, among others. Yet, buildings are usually designed and set up as …

The window-to-wall ratio (WWR), or the proportion of glazing in a building's envelope,
influences many design and performance aspects of a building across its life cycle, including …

The quality of future working circumstances for many will be contingent on how low energy
indoor spaces respond to challenges from accelerated ambient warming. Resilient cooling …

Growing climate change challenges and increasingly strict sustainability standards have led
to a significant growth in the need for building refurbishment projects which are essentially …

The advent of building information modelling (BIM) is revolutionising the conventional
practices of the construction industry and has reinforced the impact of the design process on …

Resilience to natural and manmade hazards is rarely included in sustainability assessment
frameworks. Despite their diverging principles, sustainability and resilience should be …

Purpose This paper provides a critical review of developments in the adaptability of
buildings. The purpose of this paper is to determine the current “state-of-the-art”, describe …

At present many buildings, that are not able to meet the changing needs of owners and
users, are demolished before they reach their technical lifespan. To avoid such waste, the …

Adaptable buildings are a promising enabler in the transition towards a more circular
economy, with the ambition of using materials as efficiently as possible. To exploit adaptable …