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Bed-Load Diversion with a Vortex Tube System
(2019)Impaired sediment connectivity in river systems due to transversal hydraulic structures is a primary cause of channel narrowing and down-cutting, as well as reduced morphodynamic variability. Among various restoration measures, the vortex tube is a structural measure to re-establish bed-load conveyance during flood events at low-head hydraulic structures. Bed-load particles are entrained through a slit in the tube soffit and sluiced from ...Conference Paper -
On the security of two-round multi-signatures
(2019)Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP 2019)Conference Paper -
Fog application allocation for automation systems
(2019)Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2019)Conference Paper -
Dex-net MM: Deep grasping for surface decluttering with a low-precision mobile manipulator
(2019)Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2019)Conference Paper -
Comparison of the environmental assessment of an identical office building with national methods
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)The IEA EBC Annex 72 focuses on the assessment of the primary energy demand, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts of buildings during production, construction, use (including repair and replacement) and end of life (dismantling), i.e. during the entire life cycle of buildings. In one of its activities, reference buildings (size, materialisation, operational energy demand, etc.) were defined on which the existing national ...Conference Paper -
Using a budget approach for decision-support in the design process
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)The use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) during the design phase can help to improve the environmental performance of buildings. However, designers and clients find it difficult to set environmental performance targets and interpret the results obtained through LCA in order to improve the building design. Therefore, performance levels or benchmarks are needed that provide design guidance towards reducing the environmental impacts of buildings ...Conference Paper -
Eco-efficiency assessment of conventional OPC/PPC replacement by LC3 in Cuban residential buildings
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)This paper aims at assessing the sustainability of replacing conventional OPC/PPC by Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) in Cuba. Authors conducted an eco-efficiency (E-E) analysis supported by E-E ratios, which in turn are rooted on the environmental assessment (Life Cycle Assessment, LCA) and the economic analysis (Economic Value Added, EVA). Taking case studies in Villa Clara province capital district, three construction methods were ...Conference Paper -
Butt-joint bonding of timber as a key technology for point-supported, biaxial load bearing flat slabs made of cross-laminated timber
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)An efficient butt-joint bonding technology allows to build new types of timber structures. Under the name Timber Structures 3.0 a connection has been developed which connects timber elements with an end-grain to end-grain butt joint bonding. Therefore, it is now possible to build continuous, point supported flat slabs in cross laminated timber (CLT). Multiple CLT slabs are connected rigidly together and are only supported by columns. Some ...Conference Paper -
Probabilistic LCA and LCC to identify robust and reliable renovation strategies
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)Buildings are one of the largest energy consumers and greenhouse gas emitters in the world. As the largest part of the energy consumed by the existing non-insulated buildings occurs during the operation stage, retrofitting the building stock is crucial to reduce the environmental impact. To guarantee that the retrofit measures provide economic and environmental benefits, the whole life cycle should be assessed. However, the identification ...Conference Paper -
Sustainability assessment in Cuban cement sector- a methodological approach
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)The search of sustainability is a need for human activities in general. Particularly, cement sector as a significant contributor to climate change has to implement strategies to reduce its environmental impacts. But, effective strategies have to be complemented by adequate methodological techniques to assess, guide and certificate sustainability. Amongst all the techniques developed by the scientific community in recent years, life cycle ...Conference Paper -
Fleet-based LCA applied to the building sector - Environmental and economic analysis of retrofit strategies
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)CO2 emissions need to be reduced by 40% in 2030 in Portugal as an intermediate target of the Paris Agreement. This challenging goal is expected to be achieved through incentive-based regulations and voluntary actions. This study improves the understanding of renovation strategies to reduce emissions caused by the built environment. A fleet-based Life Cycle Assessment (fb-LCA) is adapted and applied to the building sector. Fb-LCA integrates ...Conference Paper -
Towards a model for circular renovation of the existing building stock: A preliminary study on the potential for CO<inf>2</inf> reduction of bio-based insulation materials
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)In the context of strategies for mitigating the impacts of climate change within European cities, increasing attention is being paid worldwide to the use of urban green infrastructure which, in addition to the potential for improving the quality of the urban environment, allow significant amounts of CO2 to be removed from the air. However, considering the peculiarities of the dense European cities, most of the available surfaces in urban ...Conference Paper -
Consistent BIM-led LCA during the entire building design process
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a suitable method to analyse the environmental impact of buildings' design choices. However, the nature of the building design process leads to a dilemma when applying LCA in early phases. LCA can be fully performed only in the later design phases when complete information is available, but it is too costly to make changes. As a result, LCA is scarcely employed as a decision-making tool. Building Information ...Conference Paper -
Massive timber building vs. conventional masonry building. A comparative life cycle assessment of an Italian case study
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)This work aims to investigate the environmental friendliness of building materials, and in particular the benefit of using biogenic products as replacement of conventional materials. The sustainability of wood as a construction material is a complex issue since the environmental impacts are strongly related to forest management, service life and, finally, to end-of-life scenarios and waste treatment processes. In this study, a Life Cycle ...Conference Paper -
Energy transition and technical energy regulations in the building sector
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)Energy demand from buildings accounts for about 31% of global final energy demand and 23% of global energy-related carbon emissions. Technical energy regulations or building energy codes - policies that set minimum requirements for energy in buildings – have proven effective and efficient in decarbonizing the building sector. However, despite their long history and success, policymakers increasingly recognise that TERs in their current ...Conference Paper -
A typology of digital building technologies: Implications for policy and industry
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE19)Digitalization and digital technologies are buzzwords in today's building industry. Because of their promising opportunities to improve (among others) the sustainability footprint of the built environment, they have emerged as an important topic for policymakers, managers, and researchers. Yet, the debate is dominated by references to Building Information Modelling (BIM) and to the success of digital businesses in other industries; it ...Conference Paper -
A design integrated parametric tool for real-time Life Cycle Assessment - Bombyx project
(2019)Proceedings of the 2019 Sustainable Built Environment ConferenceLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become a widely accepted method for environmental assessment of buildings, but is still not commonly applied in design practice. The biggest potential for optimization and reduction of GHG emissions lies in the early stages of the design process. Therefore, a design-integrated approach for LCA is needed. The goal of this paper is to describe the development of a parametric LCA tool for application in early ...Conference Paper -
12 Angry Miners
(2019)Lecture Notes in Computer Science ~ Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology. DPM 2019, CBT 2019Conference Paper -
Fleet sizing for pooled automated vehicle fleets
(2020)This paper proposes an automated on-demand public transport service using different vehicle capacities to serve current car demand in cities. The service relies on space and time aggregation of passengers that have similar origins and destinations. It provides a point-to-point service with pre-defined pick-up and drop-off locations In this way, detours in order to pick-up en-route passengers is avoided. The optimization problem that ...Conference Paper