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Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola

As floors typically account for the largest share of a building embodied carbon footprint, new strategies to build low-carbon floors must be developed and implemented. Among these strategies, the reuse of existing components is a promising circular approac ...

Novus Press2023

Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation

Paolo Tombesi, Milinda Pathiraja

Persistent fiscal and political mismanagement, together with the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, have driven Sri Lanka into a social and economic crisis triggering a decrease in national foreign exchange reserves, an inability to purchase vit ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Decision Framework to Balance Environmental, Technical, Logistical, and Economic Criteria When Designing Structures With Reused Components

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Célia Marine Küpfer, Numa Joy Bertola, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

The reuse of structural components in new buildings has great potential to reduce the environmental impacts of the construction sector but remains uncommon practice. An obstacle to its wider implementation is the lack of robust assessment methods and decis ...

2021

Area-based equitable pricing strategies for multimodal urban networks with heterogeneous users

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Nan Zheng

Equity issues among travellers are critical in congestion pricing. Failure to treat equity can lead to low acceptability towards pricing. In this paper, we develop congestion pricing schemes to improve both equity and traffic performance, for multimodal ne ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents arising from government funding since the year 2000. About 1.5 percent of all R&D procu ...

2019

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner, Gajanan Bhanudas Panchal

In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situatio ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Rémy Glardon, Souleïman Naciri, Min-Jung Yoo, Yvonne Badulescu

This paper presents a methodology for eliciting the behavioural model of purchasers' decision-making in a supply chain environment. The objective of the work is to explicitly describe the relationship between a human user's behaviour and the resulting perf ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

The food industry belongs to the most significant economic sectors worldwide. Regarding resource use, human nutrition is responsible for about 30 % of global resource consumption. In order to decrease resource consumption to a level in line with planetary ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Modelling the future secondary resource availability and recycling potential of aluminium in austria

Production of secondary aluminium (Al) currently represents about 70% of total European Al production with a still rising trend and about 50% European final Al demand. The utilization of anthropogenic Al resources as secondary raw materials is therefore a ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

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Procurement

Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation

Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

Decision Framework to Balance Environmental, Technical, Logistical, and Economic Criteria When Designing Structures With Reused Components

Area-based equitable pricing strategies for multimodal urban networks with heterogeneous users

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

Modelling the future secondary resource availability and recycling potential of aluminium in austria

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Chat with Graph Search

Design of New Low-Carbon Floor Systems by Reusing Cut Cast-in-Place Concrete Pieces

Modelling the future secondary resource availability and recycling potential of aluminium in austria

Assessing sustainable limits for meals - first results from the project nahgast: developing, testing and dissemination of concepts for sustainable production and consumption in the food service sector

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

Decision Framework to Balance Environmental, Technical, Logistical, and Economic Criteria When Designing Structures With Reused Components

Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation

Area-based equitable pricing strategies for multimodal urban networks with heterogeneous users

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government