Structural Survey: Volume 31 Issue 5
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Renovation status and technical condition of Norwegian dwellings
Birgit Risholt, Elisabeth Waernes, Berit Time, Anne Grete HestnesThe purpose of this paper is to gain knowledge on the renovation status for Norwegian dwellings that can be used to design attractive energy efficiency measures. Norwegian…
Sea shells used as partial aggregate replacement in concrete
Alan Elliott Richardson, Thomas FullerThe purpose of this paper is to examine the use of a waste marine sea shell product incorporated into a concrete mix as an aggregate replacement. Utilising shells reduces the…
How to save a theatre: the Orpheum, Vancouver
Richard LaingThe purpose of this paper is to concern the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, which survived the threat of major internal demolition and rebuilding during the 1960s and early 1970s…
Thermo-mechanical performance of concrete with alternative binder material
Paula Kirton, Alan Richardson, Brian AgnewThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of changes to fundamental components of concrete; cement type, water/cementitious (w/c) ratio, aggregate size and age, on…
The regulation constraint modeling and semantic inferring in construction quality checking
Yun Zhong Hu, Botao Zhong, Hanbin Luo, Hai Meng HuThe purpose of this paper is to explore the feasibility that an ontological approach can be applied to formalize the construction regulation constraint knowledge in a…