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Method to analyse the contribution of material's sensitivity in buildings' environmental impact

The assessment of environmental performances of building is now commonly based on a life cycle approach. The current studies comparing such performances highlight the problems related to uncertainties in the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) results. The aim of ...

2014

Fostering Sustainable Innovation Within Organizations

Peter Michael Vogel

Over the past years many corporate business leaders have started to shift their strategy from a pure profit seeking one towards a balance in simultaneously striving to achieve economic, environmental and social goals (Elkington 1998; Preuss 2007; Roth 2009 ...

Springer2014

Environomic Design of Vehicle Integrated Energy System - Application on a Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy System

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

With the increasing trend of mobility of the human population, vehicles have to face the problem of primary energy resources scarcity. The vehicles need higher efficiency and better adaptation to the alternative energy sources. The need to improve the effi ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Identifying environmentally and economically optimal bioenergy plant sizes and locations: A spatial model of wood-based SNG value chains

Martin Gassner, Léda Gerber, Bernhard Steubing, Luca Pampuri

The optimal size and location of bioenergy plants with regards to environmental and economic performance are assessed with a spatially explicit value chain model of the production of synthetic natural gas (SNG) from wood. It consists of several individual ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Scarcity and Ocean Space - Case-Study Barents Sea, Norway

Nancy Raewyn Couling

Urban systems operate at a multitude of scales, densities and levels of specialization over vast areas of the planet, as has been pointed out by Lefebvre in The Production of Space and The Urban Revolution and more recently by Neil Brenner and Christian Sc ...

2014

Bridge "examineering" or how monitoring and UHPFRC improve the performance of structures

Examination engineering (short: "Examineering") of existing bridges comprises accurate determination of structural behavior and targeted use of advanced materials for improvement of structural behavior with the ultimate goal of limiting construction interv ...

Crc Press-Taylor & Francis Group2014

Improving Skills and Perception in Robot Navigation by an Augmented Virtuality Assistance System

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Tom Edward Carlson, Tomas de Jesus Mateo Sanguino

Successful navigation in a teleoperation scenario requires a good level of situational or environmental awareness. This paper presents the main features and capabilities of a new augmented virtuality-based system aimed at providing users with improved perc ...

Springer Verlag2014

A robust method for inverse transport modelling of atmospheric emissions using blind outlier detection

Martin Vetterli, Benjamin Bejar Haro, Marta Martinez-Camara

Emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere are a serious environmental concern. In order to understand and predict their effects, it is necessary to estimate the exact quantity and timing of the emissions, from sensor measurements taken at differe ...

2014

Understanding population displacements on location-based call records using road data

Marcel Salathé, Udayan Kumar

Large population displacements are usually observed after nature disasters. The best approximations to real world population movement in such a short temporal scale are the users' movements patterns derived from the cell phone usage data. However, due to a ...

ACM2013

Architecture. A main factor of development and protection of the mountain environment

Estelle Lépine

The objective of this contribution is to show architecture as a major factor of development in mountain environment against the risks, both, environmental and human, caused by the severe overcrowding of the routes leading to the main Alpine summits. The ch ...

2013

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