The implementation of Bridge Management Systems (BMS) dates back to the 1970s and its adoption is nowadays generalized worldwide. Initially, they were used only as a database but, in the last decades, BMS potential is be...

[Excerpt] The world is changing fast and getting confronted with many challenges that could impact the well-being and happiness of society. Among the most severe are rapid urbanization, climate change and resource scarcity. In this ...

Space heating is responsible for a significant share of the energy consumed in European households, and the replacement of appliances with more efficient alternatives can be decisive for meeting the targets set by the European Union...

In this paper, the energy and environmental impacts of a passive retrofit action, involving the installation, on an office building, of a second-skin system with the external layer made of a PVC-coated polyester fabric, were evaluat...