Cob, a vernacular earth construction process in the context of modern sustainable building

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 103-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwan Hamard ◽  
Bogdan Cazacliu ◽  
Andry Razakamanantsoa ◽  
Jean-Claude Morel
Keyword(s):  
Construction Process ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Earth Construction

Neue Technologien im Bauprozess als Qualitätssicherung ressourcengerechten Bauens/Novel technologies in the construction process for quality management in sustainable building production

Bauingenieur ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 91 (07-08) ◽  
pp. 317-321
Author(s):  
Elisa Lublasser ◽  
Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Neue Technologien ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Novel Technologies

Im Gegensatz zu neuesten Materialentwicklungen oder den Fortschritten der Gebäudeentwicklung in Hinblick auf Energieeffizienz und Bauphysik hinkt die Baustelle in der Umsetzung dem möglichen Produktionsfortschritt aus der Vorfertigung hinterher. Gebaut wird nach wie vor wie vor hundert Jahren. Ob dies kulturell bedingt ist oder der fehlende technologische Fortschritt von Teilprozessen als Vorbereitung der Automatisierung die Ursache für den rückständigen Bauprozess darstellt, wird am neugegründeten Lehrstuhl für Individualisierte Bauproduktion an der RWTH Aachen erforscht. Darüber hinaus entwickelt das interdisziplinäre Forscherteam neue Bauprozesse und Technologien, die mithilfe von Robotik und intuitiver Programmierung sowohl die Bauproduktion als auch die Baustelle in Zukunft ressourcenschonender, qualitativ hochwertiger und sicherer gestalten lässt.

Indicators of Sustainable Construction in Eco Urban

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
Somayeh Roshanfekr ◽  
N.M. Tawil ◽  
N.A. Goh
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Critical Elements

This research work is an introduction to sustainable construction. A few significant indicators and many related subsets, which are crucial to green sustainable construction and also to green buildings, are mentioned in this study. An ecocity is one that utilizes all the critical elements of the environment. Urban sustainable construction is a vital criterion in this context. Sustainable construction paves the way for the building industry to progress towards achieving realistic standards of performance, particularly in view of economic, environmental, and social concerns. Sustainability is a popular expression that has given rise to various activities throughout the world once people began to grasp the implications of sustainable construction. Sustainability, which is an important factor in reducing the negative environmental effects of construction, includes improving the control and efficiency in the use of raw materials, land and power consumption. The lifetime of a building is based on some factors that are prognostic regarding the manufacture, remodelling, support, utilization, and administration of the building, and finally, the sources of utilization and waste formation, annihilation and devastation. All of these give rise to a range of ecological issues in the life of a building. Generally, a sustainable building and construction involves a reduction in the utilization of energy and also wastage from the beginning of the construction process and throughout the lifecycle of the building. Moreover, the environment is faced with mounting devastation due to the exploitation of natural resources for building construction and the replacement of agronomic regions by residential areas.

GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATION SYSTEMS: COMPARISON OF TURKEY AND BULGARIA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meryem Geçimli ◽  
Ruşen Yamaçlı
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Local System ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Evaluation Standard ◽  
Building Assessment

Sustainability is defined as it meets the needs of present without compromising the ability of future generation’s needs. Today the topic of sustainability has the urgent importance. Especially buildings consume large amount of energy and resources. Construction sector has great impact on environment. During construction process, occupancy, renovations and/or restorations and demolition, buildings consume energy, water and sources. They are also generating waste and emit harmful atmospheric emissions. Since 1990’s countries had issued a series green building assessment scheme. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) developed by United States of America, Building Research Establishment’s Assessment Method (BREEAM) developed by United Kingdom and German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) developed by Germany are the most commonly used. There is now a proliferation of standards, rating and certification systems to assistance in order to deliver sustainable building in the marketplace. It is estimated that there are nearly 600 green certifications around the world. Green building rating programs vary in their approach with some outlining prerequisites and optional credits. Turkey and Bulgaria have some historical partnerships. So it can be useful to compare current situation of two countries in terms of green building certification. The comparison includes certification systems used in two countries. Bulgaria mainly depends on DGNB which is originally German evaluation system. Besides this some projects took LEED and BREEAM, as in Turkey. But the important difference in two countries is that Turkey has been developing its local system that is called Turkish Green Building Council (BEST). Thus in this paper the comparison mainly depends on BEST and DGNB. And also the certified projects in two countries are compared quantitatively. The benchmarks of two systems are compared in terms of similarities and differences. The characteristics of either standard system were summarized and some suggestions for improving Turkey’s evaluation standard for green building were proposed

scholarly journals Embending Sustainability Dynamics in the Lean Construction Supply Chain Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Begum Sertyesilisik
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Lean Construction ◽  
Construction Project Management ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Chain Management

AbstractThe world’s habitat is being deteriorated despite of the precautions taken. Construction industry is among the industries which highly effect the environment adversely not only through its outputs but also through the construction process and its inputs. The main focus in dealing with the reduction of its footprint has been on sustainable building certificates which mainly analyse the output of the construction activies. There is need to analyse the construction supply chain as a whole and to embed sustainability dynamics in construction supply chain management. Lean construction project management contributes to the reduction of the environmental footprint of the construction industry, enabling reduction in waste, and increasing value added activities. For this reason, based on an in depth literature review, this paper analyses and establishes the principles of the integration of the sustainability dynamics into lean construction supply chain management.

scholarly journals Rammed Earth Construction: A Proposal for a Statistical Quality Control in the Execution Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2830
Author(s):  
Jacinto Canivell ◽  
Juan Jesús Martín-del-Río ◽  
Raúl M. Falcón ◽  
Carlos Rubio-Bellido
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Statistical Quality Control ◽  
Rammed Earth ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Clay Bricks ◽  
Earth Construction ◽  
Rammed Earth Wall ◽  
Standards And Regulations

Unlike other common contemporary construction materials such as concrete, mortars, or fired clay bricks, which are widely supported by international standards and regulations, building with rammed earth is barely regulated. Furthermore, its quality control is usually problematic, which regularly encourages the rejection of this technique. In the literature, many authors have suggested ways to safely build a rammed earth wall, but only a few of them have delved into its quality control before and during the construction process. This paper introduces a preliminary methodology and establishes unified criteria, based in a statistical analysis, for both the production and the quality control of this constructive technique in cases dealing with both samples and walls.

NEW PARADIGMS FOR EARTH CONSTRUCTIONS TECHNOLOGIES: SUSTAINABILITY AND CONTROL OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Santi ◽  
Emanuele Leporelli ◽  
Veronica Vitiello
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Earth Construction ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Earthen Construction ◽  
And Control ◽  
Earth Walls

The paper presents part of the international research, between Italy and Morocco, on the earth constructions technologies. Although history demonstrates many applications there isn’t a large use nowadays. The aim of this study is therefore to understand why such promising material today is not widely used and applied only for niche situations. Through the analysis of earth construction technologies from those linked to tradition to more contemporary ones, it was possible to understand how the material was adapted locally to different building needs according to the climatic context and the available resources. In addition, the international regulatory framework is also analyzed, in order to understand the current level of development of regulations for the use of earth-based technologies. Morocco is a country with a deep and widespread knowledge of earthen construction, and the contemporary construction regulatory framework provides for its use. Through a Moroccan case study, it was possible to experiment the use of rammed earth masonry as infill, respecting contemporary construction standards. In addition, the application of BIM modeling was tested, in order to make this construction technique meet the requirements of the contemporary building process, making it faster, controlled in terms of performance and economically advantageous. The results of research, including the preparation of an abacus of the earth walls used with 123 elements and the related 17 characteristic information, for a total of 8000 m of earth, demonstrate the ability of this traditional building system to be managed and controlled in a contemporary way.

DEVELOPING ALIGNMENTS WITH GREEN BUILDING FOR A PROJECT HOME MARKET

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Price
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Home Market ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Green Is ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Social Responsibilities

Presenting an analysis on the project home market in Perth WA; this paper looks at developing alignments for greener housing solutions, focusing on ways to change public and industry attitudes. At the turn of the Millennium, Scholars collaborated that green building was not an emerging trend; however, current research suggests otherwise. These investigations of this paper highlight a vision towards a more deliberate green trend thrusts bettering the outlook for a green Perth project home market. The UN’s had a MDG’s summit in 2010, expressed a need to developing sustainable building that can be measured. The background information to Perth’s current market in the paper is providing a foundation to insight the practices that are can assist in the initiation change and removal of barriers. It concludes that the developing green alignments seem not to be translating to greening Perth’s project home market. However, the acknowledgement of onus lies on homebuyers and the construction industry. Construction businesses need to use green marketing tools to highlight their social responsibilities and motivate green thinking. Moreover, it is to be understood that a maturing in green practices will cause the industry to say ‘Green is the only way to remain competitive’. Therefore, businesses need to adopt better managerial practices to filter throughout the construction process for viability of affordable green projects homes.

Development and Application of Quality Control System for Highway Subgrade Construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
System Development ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
The Road ◽  
Whole Process

The compaction quality of the subgrade is directly related to the service life of the road. Effective control of the subgrade construction process is the key to ensuring the compaction quality of the subgrade. Therefore, real-time, comprehensive, rapid and accurate prediction of construction compaction quality through informatization detection method is an important guarantee for speeding up construction progress and ensuring subgrade compaction quality. Based on the function of the system, this paper puts forward the principle of system development and the development mode used in system development, and displays the development system in real-time to achieve the whole process control of subgrade construction quality.

Earth Construction

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Houben ◽  
Hubert Guillard
Keyword(s):  
Earth Construction
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