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Social aspects are an integral part of sustainable building alongside environmental and economic aspects. While current Green Building Rating Systems such as LEED, BREEAM, and SBToolCZ address primarily technically quant...

Abstract This study investigates how Supportive Leadership (SL) influences Eco-Friendly Building Adoption (EFBA) through Sustainability Cognition (SC) and Perceived Managerial Capability (PMC) within the Stimulus–Organ...

This study evaluates the cost implications of green building practices in low-rise residential housing by analyzing three sample houses in Kayseri, Türkiye. It compares traditional construction systems with green altern...

The “Findings in…” section in this issue of VLC arquitectura is devoted to Architectural Construction, a field whose recent evolution highlights its capacity to open up new lines of reflection and research on the b...

Construction generates substantial material waste with environmental and economic impacts, yet current methods rarely integrate waste estimation with project schedules. This study develops and validates semi-automated 4D...

Globally, several countries have begun to promote the application of building information modeling (BIM) technology and implement BIM-based building e-Permit systems. Despite the relatively rapid updates in the field of ...

Based on the Winkler foundation model, the interactions of the frame structure, strip basement and soil foundation are simplified as a shear-flexural beam on elastic foundation. The different construction distances are c...

Background: The Zondo Commission exposed how corruption and collusion undermined South Africa’s state and business relations. However, little is known about its impact on small businesses and local economic developmen...

Considering the spatial variability of soil properties, a probabilistic evaluation method is proposed for the safety of buildings above tunnels based on the random field theory and the numerical analysis method. The elas...

The centrifugal model tests and finite element models are conducted to investigate the influences of excavation of underground carvens on surface buildings. The time-history curves of index points and the settlement curv...

The article focuses on the impact of loads from railway rolling stock on the condition of the ballast prism, the propagation of vibrations in the foundation, and their effect on the dynamic behavior of a high-rise reinfo...

Despite the benefits design for adaptability (DfA) contributes to achieving sustainability and circularity in the construction industry, studies have demonstrated that construction professionals are yet to realize its fu...

Phase change materials (PCM) are receiving ever-growing attention as a promising construction material for improving building energy performance through thermal storage and peak load shifting. The analysis of PCM perform...

The Comprehensive Environmental Design and Evaluation System (CEDES) is based on a general taxonomic and conceptual framework that allows it to function both as a building sustainability assessment system and as a flexib...

The choice of building façade materiality and composition plays a significant role in indoor and outdoor thermal comfort as well as energy efficiency. However, the carbon footprint of most construction materials contrib...

In this paper, the assessment of the radon exhalation rate of the Modica stone building material, untreated and accelerated aged through salt crystallization test, is reported as a case study. Noteworthy, this constructi...

The rediscovery of a labour camp on the construction site of the Stalin Monument in Prague in spring 2021 was the result of a construction project of the Municipality of Prague. Until then, the existence of this specific...

The excavation of Dingding Bund is adjacent to an existing heritage architecture. As the pit is as deep as 20 m and the heritage architecture is only about 3 m away from the excavation, foundation underpinning is adopted...

Laterite soil is essential in the construction industry, especially in road and building construction. The practice of abandoning borrow pits after mining laterite soil in the Northern Region of Ghana has resulted in lan...

For the a building with 13 floors high and no basemnt located in Shanghai, short leg shear wall system is used for the superstructure, and the foundation beams with precast tubular piles are used to be the foundation typ...

IntroductionRapid advances in digital technology have significantly increased the auditing industry's demand for interdisciplinary talent. However, current digital-intelligent auditing courses in higher education still f...

The rock-cut heritage of the Kayseri Valleys represents a distinctive vernacular tradition shaped by technological skill, social practices, and environmental adaptation. These systems, evolving from carved spaces to maso...

After reading this issue of VLC#13.1, it becomes apparent that, little by little, the magazine is helping to build knowledge around a series of recurring themes of interest, such as the links between architecture and the...

The German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Exhibition, a benchmark of 20th-century rationalist architecture designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, was built on a plinth made up of seventy tile vaults. This decisio...