If your property is an area that’s prone to flooding you’ll pay higher insurance costs as it's deemed higher risk. Listed buildings Listed buildings usually cost substantially more to rebuild than homes of standard construction as they usually require specialist materials and labour. Plus buildin...
In this context, a strategy of the construction companies is to incorporate, in their management, certification systems and also, the search for sustainability, which should include the economy, equity and ecology. This article analyzes business sustainability in Building Construction (residential) in ...
The official property database contains information on construction year, main construction material, number of storeys, floor area and geographical coordinates [5]. It also contains the fire insurance value for each property, which is used as the replacement value in this study. Most residential b...
Comparison of Total EE of Prefab and Conventional Construction EE of the buildings, in the study, is the sum total of transportation, material, plant process, site process, and human labor. EEs of the prefabricated building and conventional building, calculated separately, were deduced from the cu...
Purpose The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been applied in the construction sector since the 1990s and is now more and more embedded in European public policies, e.g., for Environmental Product Declaration regulation or for building labeling schemes. As far as the authors know, these initiative...
“Like most inventions steel construction, which made tall buildings possible, originated to satisfy a want.” (2). Due to this steel construction, the home insurance building had more extension than the brick-wood structure which largely made it higher than other building in its day. It has ...
Benchmarks for sustainable construction: A contribution to develop a standard Sustainability has been enshrined as a goal of society to ensure that the satisfaction of present needs does not compromise the ability of future generatio... M Zimmermann,HJ Althaus,A Haas - 《Energy & Buildings》 被...
When checking out a residence, consider the top quality of the building and construction features. Evaluate the top quality of the kitchen cabinetry, carpets,trimwork and paint. Ask thehome builder or the home builder’s agent a great deal of concerns. Obtain as severalspecifics as possible. ...
Analysis of cost comparison and effects of change orders during construction: Study of a mass timber and a concrete building projectConstructionMass timber buildingConcrete buildingCost assessmentChange ordersIn recent years, timber has been considered as an alternative source of building material because ...
Review building of programs to eliminate Toxoplasma infections. Morbidity and mortality from toxoplasmosis led to programs in USA, Panama, and Colombia to