The reuse of load-bearing components

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Load-bearing systems in buildings, significant in material use and embodied greenhouse gas emissions (EGHGE), have lacked detailed analysis on their environmental and functional relationships over time and space. This study evaluates the environmental impa ...

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Carefully extracting reinforced concrete (RC) elements from soon-to-be demolished structures and reusing them as load-bearing components is an emerging circular low-carbon alternative to building new structures. As floor construction typically accounts for ...

The construction industry plays a major role in the high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, resource consumption, and waste generation observed nowadays. Key to the circular economy, structural component reuse arises as a promising solution to divert cons ...

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The reuse of load-bearing components

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Multiscale Spatiotemporal Characterization of Embodied Environmental Performance of Building Structures in Geneva from 1850 to 2018

Influence of model uncertainty and long term deformations in action effects calculation in reinforced concrete structures

A global framework for data-informed bridge examination

FLO:RE – A new floor system made of reused reinforced concrete and steel elements

RE:SLAB — a load bearing system for open-ended component reuse in building structures

Embodied Carbon Premium for Cantilevers

Short-term behavior of glass fiber-polymer composite bending-active elastica beam under service load application

Mesh-based topology, shape and sizing optimization of ribbed plates

Instabilities in Elastic and Magneto-Elastic Beams and Shells: from Shell Buckling to the Design of a Programmable Braille Reader

Reuse of cut concrete slabs in new buildings for circular ultra-low-carbon floor designs

Influence of fiber orientation on the tensile behavior of UHPFRC and reinforced UHPFRC under static and fatigue loadings

The microbial genomics of glacier-fed streams: adaptations to an extreme ecosystem

Methods to assess the carbon footprint of structures involving UHPFRC elements

Parametric Reduced Order Model of a Gas Bearings Supported Rotor

Spatial Modeling for Building Design Evaluation: from Visual Landscape Quality Assessment to Devaluation Risk Estimation

A state-of-the-art, systematic review of indoor environmental quality studies in work-from-home settings

Quantitative characterization of the inorganic phosphate gene regulatory networks in S. cerevisiae and bottom up engineering an orthogonal gene network

Design Progress of Structural Components of the EU DEMO EC Equatorial Launcher

The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review

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