Jonathan Koon Ngee Tan , Shuai Zhang , Adrian Wing-Keung Law , Sai Hung Cheung
{"title":"Digital-twin enabled evacuation to improve individual and community resilience of building occupants against indoor Fires: Framework and route-finding algorithm","authors":"Jonathan Koon Ngee Tan , Shuai Zhang , Adrian Wing-Keung Law , Sai Hung Cheung","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100672","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100672","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During indoor fires, building occupants are typically not guided with the optimal evacuation routes according to the up-to-date situation and suffer more health damage consequently. In this study, we propose a framework for the Fire Resilience Digital Twin (FRDT), a digital-twin enabled evacuation guidance system which improves the fire resilience of occupants by providing them with optimal evacuation routes in real time. The quantification metrics for real-time fire resilience of occupants were first established. Subsequently, a route-finding algorithm based on the established metrics was proposed to enable the FRDT to generate personalized evacuation routes optimized for both individual and community fire resilience, defined in terms of health damage and total evacuation time, respectively. Simulations of 500 occupants evacuating from a fire in an underground mall with and without guidance from a FRDT prototype showed that the prototype improved individual and community fire resilience by 6 %–64 % and 14 %, respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100672"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143922452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shitong Hou , Yuxuan Wang , Tao Wu , Han Shen , Jingwei Zhao , Lei He
{"title":"Rapid array images stitching for underwater structures based on camera integrated calibration with multi-scale detectable features pattern","authors":"Shitong Hou , Yuxuan Wang , Tao Wu , Han Shen , Jingwei Zhao , Lei He","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Optical inspection has emerged as a mainstream method for underwater structure assessment but presents several limitations, such as restricted fields of view, suboptimal image stitching, and inefficiencies. To address these problems, this paper proposes an image stitching method based on camera integrated calibration, obviating the need for feature extraction. Laboratory experiments validate the efficacy of various stitching methods. Compared to feature extraction-based methods, the proposed method reduces processing time by approximately 60 %, achieving a stitching time of 42 s for high-resolution images. The proposed method also achieves superior image quality, with information entropy of 6.7, an average gradient of 1.8, and a spatial frequency of 5.0. Additionally, a quantitative evaluation reveals that the proposed method achieves a stitching quality score of 64, surpassing the feature extraction-based method's score of 63, with fewer distortions and improved clarity. This paper contributes to advancing underwater multi-camera optical detection methodologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100649"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can ecological compensation promote cross-regional collaborative governance of construction and demolition waste? Evidence from prospect theory","authors":"Xingwei Li, Weihong Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100679","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100679","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traditional construction and demolition waste (CDW) treatment makes it difficult to fully utilize regional advantages. Consequently, countries and regions have increasingly attempted cross-regional collaborative CDW governance. This study employs prospect theory and utilizes an evolutionary game to explore whether ecological compensation promotes cross-regional collaborative CDW governance. The cross-regional collaborative CDW governance ecological compensation evolutionary game system has four evolutionary stable strategies. Different ecological compensation fees encourage recycling enterprises to actively participate in collaborative governance, but discourage local governments in different regions. Moreover, different ecological compensation fee amounts have heterogeneous effects on the collaborative governance behaviors of the government and recycling enterprises. Further, the synergy coefficients positively affect the cross-regional collaborative governance behaviors of local governments and recycling enterprises. Thus, this study offers new evidence regarding ecological compensation in cross-regional synergistic CDW governance and provides a reference for local governments in formulating effective ecological compensation policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100679"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repair and strengthening of CFRP-wrapped lightweight concrete exposed to elevated temperatures","authors":"Rami Hawileh, Hind Alharmoodi, Abdallah Hajjaj, Abdulaziz Aljarwan, Sumit Sahoo, Jamal Abdalla","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100654","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100654","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lightweight concrete has proven effective material due to its high strength-to-weight ratio, cost-effectiveness, improved sound insulation, and fire resistance. However, there is scarce data on the confinement behaviour of the lightweight concrete (LWC) exposed to elevated temperatures, particularly when wrapped with fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP). This study explores the behaviour of LWC strengthened and repaired with carbon FRP (CFRP) laminates tested under elevated temperatures. LWC specimens wrapped with CFRP laminates are tested experimentally under temperatures varying from 20 °C to 800 °C. Parameters like compressive strength, stress-strain behaviour, elastic modulus, and failure modes are evaluated as a function of increasing temperature. Analytical models are developed to estimate the degradation on compressive strength and elastic modulus with temperature and validated against experimental data. The outcomes from this study support the use of CFRP wraps to partially restore the strength and elasticity in LWC compression members at moderate temperatures, enhancing its resilience in fire-prone applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100654"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hygro-Thermal and Acoustic performances of recycled textile-based materials for building applications","authors":"Alessandro Dama , Shiva Khoshtinat , Andrea Alongi , Claudia Marano , Adriana Angelotti","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100657","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100657","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents an experimental investigation of the heat transfer and acoustic properties of semi-finished panels obtained from post-consumer textile waste. Their different compositions (mostly polyester, mostly cotton, and mixed fabric) and different densities, in a range from 50 to 150 kg/m<sup>3</sup>, were considered. The transient “hot disk” method was used for thermal conductivity and diffusivity measurements and a Kundt's tube for sound absorption. Moreover, hygroscopic characterizations of moisture absorption and its kinetics were carried out. Overall, good thermal insulation (thermal conductivity between 0.042 and 0.062 W/K/m) and medium acoustic performances (sound absorption classes C and D) were observed, suitable for building applications. Thermal conductivity was found to linearly increase with the density and to increase with the relative humidity, in line with the analysed hygroscopic behaviour of the porous matrix. On average, the polyester-based panels showed the lowest thermal conductivity, followed by the mixed fabric.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100657"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manish Kumar Dixit , Pranav Pradeep Kumar , Sarbajit Banerjee
{"title":"Impact of using high strength low alloy steel on reducing the embodied energy, carbon, and water impacts of building structures: A case study","authors":"Manish Kumar Dixit , Pranav Pradeep Kumar , Sarbajit Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100671","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100671","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Buildings consume embodied energy (EE) and embodied water (EW) during construction due to the use of materials like steel, adding embodied carbon (EC) to the atmosphere. Using high strength low alloy (HSLA) steel can save steel requirements; however, this potential of HSLA steel to decrease steel use has not been evaluated thoroughly. Using a cradle-to-site system boundary, this paper applies input-output-based hybrid (IOH) modeling to measure savings in steel and EE, EC, and EW use due to using HSLA steel in a reinforced concrete and steel structure. The IOH model integrates macro-economic input-output data with structural analysis to quantify these savings in embodied impacts. Results show that HSLA steel decreases the requirements of steel sections and rebar by 2.5 %–7 % and 6 %–40 %, respectively. These savings generate 2 %–6 % decrease in EE and EC for steel sections and 6 %–18 % for rebar, reducing EW by 2 %–6 % and 5 %–18 % for steel sections and rebar, respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100671"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sojin Park , Soyeon Park , Hanbyeol Jang , Yonghan Ahn , Nahyun Kwon
{"title":"Computing green remodeling construction cost for public buildings based on genetic algorithm and case-based reasoning","authors":"Sojin Park , Soyeon Park , Hanbyeol Jang , Yonghan Ahn , Nahyun Kwon","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100655","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100655","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As a first step in considering the budget limitations caused by public funds, a systematic method for estimating the green remodeling construction costs during the planning stage must be established first. In this research, we developed models to predict the construction costs of green remodeling by applying case-based reasoning and genetic algorithm. The applicability of the models was experimentally evaluated, wherein 15 datasets were randomly selected to validate the estimated preliminary construction costs. The average similarities of the retrieved cases were higher than 97 %. The overall performances of the models were evaluated, and the mean absolute error rates for 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-nearest neighbors were 10.38 %, 7.15 %, 6.91 %, and 9.45 %, respectively. This research contributes to literature of building retrofit cost management in construction by not only offering the systematic approach for estimating the preliminary construction cost, but also providing as foundational data when deriving budgeting strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100655"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143839470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara karami , José-Paulo de Almeida , Claire Ellul , Alberto Cardoso
{"title":"Semantic mapping-based comparison of digital building LogBook and energy performance certificate models - envisaging data reuse","authors":"Sara karami , José-Paulo de Almeida , Claire Ellul , Alberto Cardoso","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100674","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100674","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building information is essential for making informed decisions about overall energy efficiency, performance, and sustainability over the lifecycle of a building. Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and Digital Building LogBook (DBL) are the two main approaches to capture and manage building data effectively across the life cycle of buildings. While various initiatives proposed different LogBook data models, there are still drawbacks, such as heterogeneity and consensus about elements and categories (group of elements), lack of identifying the key DBL elements, lack of effectively incorporating the main elements of EPC, and providing data dictionaries. The main contribution of this ongoing research is to compare the current DBL and EPC data models through a semi-automatic and knowledge-based approach. As a result, a list of matched and unmatched elements per category was created. The comparison list provided information on the available and common elements, most representative categories and elements, and correlation between models. It also helps to include additional relevant information without causing disagreements. This paper aims to contribute to a step forward in creating a harmonized LogBook data model that may help the reuse of existing data, and hence reduction of data carbon footprint, to move forward to achieve Net-zero objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100674"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jin-Ho Bae , Daeik Jang , Naru Kim , Jihoon Park , Sungsik Choi , Seonhyeok Kim , Joonho Seo
{"title":"Microstructural changes in carbonation-cured slag-blended calcium sulfoaluminate cements under electrically accelerated leaching","authors":"Jin-Ho Bae , Daeik Jang , Naru Kim , Jihoon Park , Sungsik Choi , Seonhyeok Kim , Joonho Seo","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microstructural changes in carbonation-cured slag-blended calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA) cements under electrically accelerated leaching were investigated in this study. The CSA cement was replaced with slag at mass levels of 0, 30, and 50 %. The paste samples underwent normal or carbonation curing for 28 d and were subsequently exposed to electrically accelerated leaching. The test results of the samples before and after the accelerated leaching test indicated significant decomposition of ettringite in the normally cured samples upon leaching, whereas the formation of ettringite was suppressed in the carbonation-cured samples. However, leaching caused a slight growth of ettringite in the carbonation-cured samples. The reactivities of belite and slag in the carbonation-cured samples increased significantly upon leaching, leading to an increase in C-(A)-S-H and strätlingite contents. Carbonation curing reduced the number of leached ions, and this reduction was more notable with the incorporation of slag.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100664"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anastasija Komkova , Sophie Krog Agergaard , Birgitte Holt Andersen , Guillaume Habert
{"title":"Identifying barriers and enablers for emerging value chains in open-loop mineral wool waste recycling within the construction sector","authors":"Anastasija Komkova , Sophie Krog Agergaard , Birgitte Holt Andersen , Guillaume Habert","doi":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dibe.2025.100662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global objectives to mitigate climate change, minimise waste, and ensure the efficient use of resources require urgent actions in multiple sectors, including construction and buildings. Currently, rock wool and glass wool are widely used as insulation materials in the building stock across Europe, while in multiple countries are still landfilled at their end-of-life. Within a recent research project, mineral wool waste has proved to be recyclable as a precursor in an alternative binder to carbon-intensive conventional cement, such as alkali-activated materials (AAMs). This open-loop recycling of mineral wool in AAMs is associated with the creation of new value chains within the circular economy that can trigger symbiotic relationships between urban areas and industries. Stakeholders who produce mineral wool waste–based alkali-activated construction materials at a pilot scale in 5 European countries were interviewed to evaluate their environmental, economic and social performance using selected circular economy indicators. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis was applied to identify common trends across pilot-scale productions and potential industrial up-scales. While common barriers include limited economic viability at the pilot scale, which can be addressed through industrial upscaling with optimised supply chains, there is also variability in consumer acceptance of waste-based materials across countries. Finally, potential solutions to the identified barriers along each step of the value chain are proposed. The results show that combined actions of industry, cities, and policymakers are required to overcome barriers and nudge the transition towards a circular economy. This can be achieved by using economic incentives to enhance the cost-competitiveness of alternative construction materials, promoting green public procurement, and raising public awareness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34137,"journal":{"name":"Developments in the Built Environment","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 100662"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143850497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}