Passive design has recently received increasing attention as an option to reduce energy
consumption, abate carbon footprint and alleviate energy bills of buildings by taking …

As plastic pollution is eroding our ecological environment at an alarming rate around the
world, tracking the origins is a necessity for putting forward effective measures to prevent it …

Ancient Roman concretes have survived millennia, but mechanistic insights into their
durability remain an enigma. Here, we use a multiscale correlative elemental and chemical …

Amidst growing environmental concerns and an escalating awareness of climate change,
the choice of insulation materials has gained vital importance in sha** sustainable …

Ageing of the building stock is an issue affecting many regions in the world. This means a
large proportion of existing buildings being considered energy inefficient, with associated …

Circular economy (CE) practices pave the way for the construction sector to become less
material-and carbon-intensive. However, for CE quantification by climate mitigation models …

Building insulation is the most respected among the compatible and effective energy
conservation technologies available today, as it also reduces yearly energy costs and …

The choice of thermal insulation technology for existing building retrofit can be a complex
multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem characterized by multiple stakeholders with …

The growing attention to sustainability and life cycle issues by European and international
policies has recently encouraged the adoption, in the construction sector, of environmental …

In this study, influences of integrating nanoparticles into paraffin-based latent heat thermal
energy storage system on the thermal and drying behaviors of a greenhouse dryer have …