The construction industry accounts for a substantial share of global greenhouse gas emissions, underscoring the need to explore sustainable building technologies. Bamboo is a rapidly growing renewable resource used in various building contexts, including structural and non-structural purposes, with properties equivalent to those of other conventional building materials. The objective...Read More

Thermal comfort assessment is a critical component of sustainable building design, influencing occupant wellbeing, energy use, and early-stage design decisions. Conventional comfort indices and static simulation methods provide limited support for predictive, uncertaintyaware, and human-centred evaluation in dynamic design contexts. This paper presents an AI-enhanced Extended Reality (XR) framework for...Read More

In association with Professor Vivian Tam .This paper reviews and analyses frequent injure spots of construction workers, and its causes of the relevant injures. Case studies are adopted in highlight the relationship of illnesses, injuries and fatalities of construction workers. Health and safety interference is expressed in terms of ergonomic...Read More

In the context of seismic hazard assessment and engineering design, a comprehensive understanding of local geological and geophysical factors is essential. However, previous studies have lacked crucial components such as local soil condition, ground response analysis, topographic influences, active fault characteristics, slip rates, groundwater behaviour, and slope considerations. To ensure...Read More

The Building Condition Index (BCI) is a widely adopted quantitative metric for assessing various aspects of a building’s condition, as it facilitates decision-making regarding maintenance, capital improvements and, most importantly, the identification of investment risk. In practice, longitudinal BCI scores are typically used to identify maintenance liabilities and trends and...Read More

BCA methodically assesses the state of a building’s deterioration to support Maintenance, Safety, Function, and Compliance purposes. Originally used to assist in identifying urgent repair requirements, it has evolved and become one of the most used tools for assessing a building’s outstanding maintenance liability when a building is transacted or...Read More

This paper explores different building maintenance strategies in commercial buildings in Sydney, Australia, focusing on corrective maintenance (CM) and preventive maintenance (PM). While CM involves rectifying issues after they occur, PM aims to enhance productivity by anticipating potential issues. Although PM seems more logical, the decision to implement this type...Read More

During devastating earthquakes, soil liquefaction has disastrous outcomes on bridge foundations, as mentioned in books and published research. To avoid foundation failure when the surrounding soil is fully liquefied, a bridge’s pile foundation design could be such that the bridge pier is directly resting on the top of a large-diameter...Read More

Structural design plays a very important role in reducing environmental impacts by reusing resources, recycling materials, and minimizing waste and pollution in the construction sector. Sustainable design becomes more effective than traditional solutions in achieving the transition to sustainability. The decision-making process is not simple due to the different preferences...Read More

Co Author EIT Student Mistreselasie AbateAn earthquake is one of the most significant and shocking natural disasters ever documented anywhere on the planet. Throughout history, it has claimed millions of lives and wreaked devastation on infrastructure. Because earthquake forces are spontaneous and unpredictable, engineering methods must be honed to investigate...Read More