The use of industrial waste and/or by-products as alternative sources of raw materials in
building materials has become standard practice. The result, more sustainable construction …

Climate parameters can be refined for use in a heritage context to capture climate‐based
deterioration processes occurring on buildings and sites. The Scheffer index, which …

The intervention on historic buildings through building energy retrofitting has become one of
the current challenges of improving energy efficiency. Nonetheless, this building typology …

Construction using timber has seen a resurgence in light of global climate mitigation
policies. Wood is a renewable resource, and engineered wood products are proving to be …

The service life of exposed wooden structures depends on many endogenous and
exogenous factors with moisture being key for fungal degradation. Climate parameters are …

Performance-based, service-life design of wood has been the focus of much research in
recent decades. Previous works have been synthesized in various factorized design …

The durability of wood depends on its in-use environmental conditions. The aim of this study
was to estimate the effects associated with macro climate and detail design as well as their …

Current climate projections suggest that the UK will experience warmer and wetter winters
and warmer and dryer summers. This change in the climate could affect the incidence or …

Wood decay have the greatest impact on in-service wood structural elements. In most cases,
decay is associated with excessive accumulation of moisture in the wood. The structural …

The intensive use of wood resources is a challenging subject around the world due to
urbanization, population growth, and the biodegradability of wooden materials. The study of …