402 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BIM-Enabled Design for Hospital Retrofit in China: A Case Study
With the increasing demand for healthcare in China, the retrofit of old hospitals has become an effective practice to upgrade hospitals and improve the healthcare environment. How to fully utilise digital desi...
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Promoting the Competency of Construction Management Postgraduates: A Literature Review
With the rapid development of the construction industry, there is a great requirement to cultivate a large number of management talents with higher competency (ability, quality and knowledge). Taking postgradu...
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Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Defects in Building Based on Augmented Reality and Computer Vision
Condition assessment and health monitoring (CAHM) of buildings require effective and continuous detection of any changes in the material and geometric properties of components to detect defects in time. Howeve...
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Research on the Differences of Job Stressors Among Construction Project Managers in China
Construction project managers are under high level of job stress today because of the characteristics of contemporary construction projects, such as large investment, tight project schedule, high requirements ...
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Optimization of Housing Retrofit Policies: A Perspective of Homeowners’ Motivations
Energy efficient retrofitting (EER) of existing residential buildings is one of the effective ways to achieve the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals in China. Despite the great efforts in the EEE filed...
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Integrating BIM and Quality Standards for Highway Construction Inspection
Construction inspection is critical to ensuring the quality and long-term performance of highway infrastructure. In the current practice the inspectors need to manually gather and interpret the lengthy quality...
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Design of Coding Domain Non-orthogonal Demodulation Based on OFDM System
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely used in wireless communication. However, with the development of 5G, an unprecedented number of users will try to access the network, leading t...
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An Improved Contention-Based MAC Protocol Based on IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function
With the development of information technology, more and more devices need to access the network. Contention-based Media Access Control (MAC) protocol can better adapt to the changes in network topology and is...
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Urban Renewal Planning Strategies Guided by Public Values
China's urbanization has entered a stage of renewal and quality development, and urban construction pays more attention to connotation development. Urban renewal planning is not only based on the improvement o...
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Inverse Generative Design: A Guideline
Through growing built forms via pre-programmed rules and parameters, the idea of generative design is formed in this modern architecture, in which designers create form alternatives by adjusting input paramete...
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Transmission Strength Evaluation of Metro Safety Risks: An Integrated Study of Causal and Coupling Relationship
Metro construction is characterized by numerous safety risks. Although risk transmission widely exists during metro construction, how to scientifically evaluate the risk transmission strength is still vague
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Recommendation by Multiscale Semantic-Visual Analysis of User Reviews and Product Images
Recommendation for items that users have not interacted with is often based on the predicted ratings. However, predicting an item rating can be challenging due to a fact that the user-item paired data are not ...
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A Hesitant Multiplicative Best-Worst Method for Multiple Criteria Decision-Making
The classical Best-Worst Method (BWM) and its expansion form in the multiple criteria decision-making problem under different backgrounds are widely used to calculate the weights of criteria. The traditional B...
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Research on Job Stressors and Mental Health of Construction Practitioners in China
Affected by the characteristics of the construction industry, construction practitioners suffer from many job stressors, leading to high risk of poor mental health. By adopting a mixed research method, this pa...
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Security Assessment for Indoor Spaces: A Framework Based on 3D Space Syntax and BIM
Fine-grained spatial information is critical when conducting spatial security assessment, as people’s spatial cognition is derived from specific images of space. Spatial cognition guides people’s behavior in s...
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Supporting Ability of Science and Technology Research on the Influence of Industrial Structure Optimization Effect
Scientific and technological support capacity refers to the ability of knowledge, technology, talents, information and other elements to support the development of science and technology. Improving the support...
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Research on the Impact of the “Circle Layer” Structure of the Bei**g−Tian**−Hebei Urban Agglomeration on Energy Ecological Efficiency Under the Dual Carbon Goal
Promoting the strategy of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social systemic change, in which the low-carbon energy transition will be the key to realizing the “dual carb...
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A Novel Multi-attribute Group Decision-Making Method Based on Interval-Valued q-rung Dual Hesitant Fuzzy Sets and TOPSIS
This paper presents a novel multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) method under interval-valued q-rung dual hesitant fuzzy environment. The interval-valued q-rung dual hesitant fuzzy sets (IVq-RDHFSs) a...
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Coupling of Operational Risks of Urban Rail Transit Based on N-K Model
In recent years, the construction of urban rail transit plays an important role in alleviating the problem of urban traffic congestion and facilitating the public transportation. However, various factors promo...
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Subsidy Design for Personal Protective Equipments (PPEs) Adoption
Since December 2019, the COVID-19 outbreak has spread in over 100 countries and regions at a stunning pace. To prevent humanitarian health hazards such as COVID-19, people are strongly suggested to purchase an...
