This research aims to generate processes of industrialization and qualification of social housing in Colombia through prefabrication,low energy consumption and high environmental quality to reduce the current deficit ...
How can individual mobility in urban areas be maintained alongside scooters and cargo bikes if conventional vehicles are foreseeably no longer allowed to enter city centers?And how can urban living be combined with in...
The use of computer in architectural design shouldn’t sacrifice the pursuit of a human-oriented built environment.The technological applications should be legitimated by the objectives and motivations in multiple dim...
Buildings are stationary,complex edifices which come in a variety of sizes and shapes of comparatively low value goods.Their building materials are not readily reused or recycled as can not be easily separated and uti...
Conferences and publications on Smart Cities and self-styled ecological buildings such as“Vertical Forests”,“Biophilic”building complexes and other similar are multiplying.But then,in reality,we continue to design...
The student research team would like to express their sincere appreciation for the support provided by Dr.Tadeh Zirakian and Dr.David Boyajian,professors of Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Management at California State University,Northridge,U.S.A.
In this research endeavor,undergraduate senior civil engineering students from California State University,Northridge,under the supervision of Dr.Tadeh Zirakian and Dr.David Boyajian,introduced a design that maximizes...
This study presents the development of ultra high strength concrete(UHSC)that has been made more sustainable by using both local materials from central Texas and spent foundry sand(FS)from the metal casting industry,w...
Besides arguments like fighting against dispersed urbanization, improving economies of infrastructure and preserving natural resources, another measure to sustainability is the delight of people in staying together wi...
Sustainable waterfront development is about creating a vision for an area and then deploying the skills and resources to realize it after involving a dialogue with the customer within an area. Also, it draws together ...
Increasing urbanization rates observed in the last decades have significantly contributed to a higher number of travelers to urban environments. The objective of this study was to identify measures and factors that en...