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Research on Macau’s Historic Buildings Blending Chinese and Western Cultures
The modern architectural culture of Macau is a tribute to the development of Chinese architectural culture. The numerous modern historical buildings... -
Research on the Protection of Macau Water-Faring Community (Dan Jia) from the Perspective of Urban Heritage
In areas with well-developed water systems in China, there are Water-Faring Community (Dan Jia) that can be traced back to seven thousand years ago.... -
Durability of Earth Materials: Weathering Agents, Testing Procedures and Stabilisation Methods
This chapter reviews the potential impact of six environmental agents (water, ice, wind, fire, solar radiation and chemical attack) on the long-term... -
Assessing Vulnerability and Fire Risk in Old Urban Areas: Application to the Historical Centre of Guimarães
Urban risk mitigation is a priority in city management due to the severe consequences and costs that disasters can cause. Several efforts are focused...
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Making Technological Breakthrough and Becoming a World Power in Bridge Technology
Since the twenty-first century, China's expressway construction has been developed rapidly, which followed a series of expressway construction... -
Pathologies—Incompatibility of Materials and Human Intervention in a Historic Building of Elvas
Preserving and safeguarding the identity and original authenticity are targets to accomplish, in an action of conservation, restoration or... -
A Novel Disease Outbreak Prediction Model for Compact Spatial-Temporal Environments
One of the popular research areas in clinical decision supporting system (CDSS) is Spatial and temporal (ST) data mining. The basic concept of ST... -
Monitoring of reclamation-induced ground subsidence in Macao (China) using PSInSAR technique
The long-term reclamation-induced ground subsidence in Macao, a coastal city of southern China was investigated. Persistent scatterer interferometry...
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Conservation and New Construction Solutions in Rammed Earth
The conservation and rehabilitation of several sites of cultural heritage and of the large housing stock built from rammed earth requires adopting...