A study on database of modular façade retrofitting building envelope

A State of the Art of the Overall Energy Efficiency of Wood Buildings—An Overview and Future Possibilities

“…In taller buildings, the envelope mitigates the external forces acting on the building and helps to maintain comfortable thermal, visual and acoustic conditions. In addition, the envelope is an essential element of a building because it not only serves as an esthetic element but also resists the main load-bearing structure [ 174 ]. Despite their considerable benefits, mass timber and hybrid buildings are still facing several challenges, especially those related to costs [ 156 , 175 ].…”

Modular composite building in urgent emergency engineering projects: A case study of accelerated design and construction of Wuhan Thunder God Mountain/Leishenshan hospital to COVID-19 pandemic

“…Japan put forward the concept of prefabricated house in 1968. In 1990, the production system of medium and high-rise residential buildings was launched, which adopts the component-based, industrialized production mode, high production efficiency, variable internal structure of residential buildings, and adapts to residents' different needs [ 3 , 4 ]. American prefabricated housing prevailed in the 1970s.…”

Geo-environmental parametric 3D models of SARS-CoV-2 virus circulation in hospital ventilation systems

“…The results yielded interactions of 300 relationships that occurred in the analyzed space; thus, we place high relevance and reliability of these data on the intensity of natural ventilation, which does not depend on the thermal insulation characteristics of the modular structure ( Li and Chen, 2020 ). In Fig.…”