Abstract Management of Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste from buildings has
become essential to ensure sustainable infrastructural growth across the globe. The major …

Building operations, which include the energy from electricity and natural gas account for
about 28% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Stakeholders need accurate …

Prefabrication is regarded as a pivot for realizing sustainable building construction.
Nevertheless, the sustainable manufacture level of prefabricated components remains …

Over the last few years, several policies and new technological solutions have targeted the
construction sector with the aim of reducing the sector's impacts on the environment. Among …

The automotive sector is one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contributors
and it accounts for around 17% of the total GHG emissions across the world. Most of these …

Alongside the efforts focusing at material level to mitigate the environmental impact of
constructions, another instrument is reduction of material volume employed by structural …

Hemming is an incremental joining technique used in the automotive industry, it involves
bending the flange of an outer panel over an inner panel to join two sheet metal panels …

The growing demand of sustainable precast structures for multi-storey constructions is often
driven by the optimisation of cross-sections and reinforcement volumes of the structural …