Abstract Ghana 39;s building regulations mdash; most recently codified in GS 1207:2018 mdash; were calibrated against a set of environmental assumptions that coastal urbanization and climate change ...

Fouad teaches structural analysis for all levels of the undergraduate Civil Engineering Programme, and structural appraisal and defects diagnosis of buildings for the BSc Building Surveying programme.

The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Compliance Checking and Permitting Ontology (AEC3PO) is an ontology developed in the context of the Automated Compliance Checks for Construction, ...

Introduction: Seismic damage affecting the non-structural components of buildings (such as infills) can significantly impact the expected economic losses over a structure’s service life. Recently, ...

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami affected 5% of Sri Lanka’s schools, severely damaging 108 and destroying 74. The catastrophe highlighted the critical role of schools in providing educational continuity ...

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A mechanical model was developed to evaluate the reliability of very slender columns subject to creep, employing the nonlinear moment-curvature relationship. Second-order effects were considered by ...

New research from Imperial College London has shown that travelling fires pose a risk to the structures of large open building spaces over 100m2. With more and more large office spaces designed as ...