Materials science has had a key role in lowering CO2 emissions from the electricity sector
through the development of technologies for renewable energy generation and high …

As one quarter of global energy use serves the production of materials, the more efficient
use of these materials presents a significant opportunity for the mitigation of greenhouse gas …

Extracting pieces of concrete from obsolete buildings and reusing them, as is, in new
assemblies is today rarely considered a strategy for improving the sustainability of the …

In this study, expecting to form a virtuous circle conducive to socio-economic development.
The problems of environmental cost control mode, and the relationship between the value …

Exciting metallurgical breakthroughs of the last decades alongside the development and
wide-ranging availability of new and more capable experimental and theoretical tools for …

Sustainable management of construction and demolition wastes (CDWs) has become a
pressing global issue in social, environmental and economic contexts, and it involves …

Building information modeling (BIM) plays a critical role in the integration of different parties
by acting as a centralized database defining their responsibilities and contractual …

Widespread reuse of building components can promote the circularity of materials in the
building sector. However, the reuse of building components is not yet a mainstream practise …

The embodied carbon emissions of buildings are increasingly important to mitigate. Most of
these emissions come from structural systems. While many strategies have been identified …

The concept of a circular economy has been proposed as a key component of a solution for
the finiteness of earth's resources. As one path, the research on the direct reuse of …