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Green Construction on AZoBuild - World Environment Day 2022

This World Environment Day the theme is #OnlyOneEarth. As the climate crisis looms, sectors are constantly striving to produce new advancements to make themselves more sustainable and circular.

By Skyla Baily 5 Jun 2022

Creating the World’s Tallest Wooden Structured Building

AZoBuild spoke with Kristian Ahlmark from Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects about their ambitious new project Rocket&Tigerli, which will become the world’s tallest residential building with a wooden load-bearing structure.

By Skyla Baily 1 Jun 2022

Exploring the Durability of GFRP Bars in Natural Seawater

A new study in the journal Buildings considers how continuous glass fiber and resin are used to make glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars. They are corrosion-resistant, have high tensile strength, and are light in weight.

25 May 2022

Innovative PV System Installation Method for Limited Area Applications

Recently, a team of researchers, writing in the journal Buildings, has considered daily global and diffuse solar radiation evaluated on a horizontal surface to establish the most efficient angles of installation.

25 May 2022

Analysis of Construction Design That Would Aid In Disaster Management and Recovery

A study in the journal Buildings looks at how design discourses and practices can be used to both alleviate the negative effects of (un-)natural disasters and lead to good post-disaster regeneration.

23 May 2022

Algorithmic VR Design to Help Architects Make Instant Design Alterations

Present architectural design digital interpretation tools implement a visualization strategy that reflects the building’s form through the use of plans, sections, elevations, and perspective views. A study presented in the journal Architecture considers the use of Algorithmic Design in Virtual Reality to facilitate the design stage of planning.

19 May 2022

Issues With Social Network Analysis for Construction Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management (KM) has gained considerable attention both in academia and industry. KM promotes the productive dissemination of knowledge in an organization pertaining to the requirements of a specific project.

18 May 2022

Creating Appropriate School Design with the Help of a Proposed System

Researchers, writing in the journal Buildings, have come up with a system that allows collaboration between educators and architects to create school designs suitable to the needs of the school at the time as well as in the future. This article reviews this research.

17 May 2022

Durability Properties of Concrete with Silica Fume and Coal Bottom Ash

This article provides a review of a study on the use of coal bottom ash with silica fume as an alternative for fine aggregate material in concrete. The researchers published their review in the journal Buildings.

17 May 2022

Study on Carbon Emissions Produced by Reinforced Concrete and Modular Construction

This article reviews a study on the carbon emissions produced by modular construction methods versus those using traditional reinforced concrete. The researchers, writing in the journal Buildings, used a Korean case study to investigate their hypothesis.

17 May 2022