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Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Calabretta, G. (author), Karpen, Ingo Oswald (author), Bocken, Nancy (author), Hultink, H.J. (author)In the 1960s, influential thinkers defined design as a rational problem-solving approach to deal with the challenges of sustainable human development. In 2009, a design consultant and a business academic selected some of these ideas and successfully branded them with the term “design thinking.” As a result, design thinking has developed into...review 2024
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Hartley, Kris (author), Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Kirchherr, Julian (author)The early 2020s have been characterized by multiple convergent crises, including the Covid-19 pandemic and economic fallout of mitigation measures, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the ongoing sustainability and climate change crisis. This article discusses how the concept of the circular economy can inform responses to such crises by...review 2024
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Wahi, P. (author), Konstantinou, T. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)Lower temperature heating (LTH) involves using the lowest possible supply temperatures to meet residential heating demands, thus supporting the integration of sustainable heating sources and decarbonising the existing residential stock. However, choosing appropriate energy renovation options to prepare existing dwellings for LTH presents...review 2023
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Jiglau, George (author), Bouzarovski, Stefan (author), Dubois, Ute (author), Feenstra, M.H. (author), Gouveia, João Pedro (author), Grossmann, Katrin (author), Guyet, Rachel (author), Herrero, Sergio Tirado (author), Hesselman, Marlies (author), Robic, Slavica (author), Sareen, Siddharth (author), Sinea, Anca (author), Thomson, Harriet (author)Energy poverty is a far-reaching concept that intrinsically bridges numerous fields of study, ranging from engineering to anthropology and medical science to social psychology. The profound implications of energy poverty on the quality of life globally have also led to a wide range of metrics and policies aimed at measuring it and alleviating it...review 2023
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He, Xinrui (author), Jia, W. (author), Dong, Yuxiang (author), Siahkouhi, Mohammad (author)The railway industry has shown a strong interest in utilizing sustainable materials, including recycled materials and composites, in construction. Bamboo, as a highly renewable natural resource, has been proposed as a construction material for the railway industry. This material offers several advantages, such as high strength and durability,...review 2023
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Safdar, Luqman B. (author), Foulkes, M. John (author), Dr. Kleiner, F.K. (author), Searle, Iain R. (author), Bhosale, Rahul A. (author), Fisk, Ian D. (author), Boden, Scott A. (author)Rising demands for protein worldwide are likely to drive increases in livestock production, as meat provides ∼40% of dietary protein. This will come at a significant environmental cost, and a shift toward plant-based protein sources would therefore provide major benefits. While legumes provide substantial amounts of plant-based protein,...review 2023
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Oliveira, Marta Fernandes (author), Mendonça, Paulo (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), Santiago, Pedro (author), Silva, José F. (author), Silva, Lígia Torres (author)How to analyse the omissions of thermal regulations and evaluate methodologies that provide building execution or thermal certificates that do not correspond to reality and usually incur costs? We can start by analysing different simulation methods and shading calculations that provide solar gains and shadow optimisation. After evaluating how...review 2023
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Putra, N.E. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)The need for sustainable development has never been more urgent, as the world continues to struggle with environmental challenges, such as climate change, pollution, and dwindling natural resources. The use of renewable and recycled waste materials as a source of raw materials for biomaterials and tissue engineering is a promising avenue for...review 2023
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Kumar Ashish, Prabin (author), Sreeram, Anand (author), Xu, Xiong (author), Chandrasekar, Pavan (author), Jagadeesh, A. (author), Adwani, Dheeraj (author), Kumar Padhan, Rabindra (author)The widespread production and consumption of plastics is a pressing global issue that requires multifaceted approaches and solutions. In terms of recycling, one of the ways to repurpose waste plastics in the construction industry would be to utilize them for asphalt pavement-related applications. Although this approach can potentially provide...review 2023
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Plakantonaki, Sofia (author), Kiskira, Kyriaki (author), Zacharopoulos, Nikolaos (author), Chronis, Ioannis (author), Coelho, F.A.P. (author), Togiani, Amir (author), Kalkanis, Konstantinos (author), Priniotakis, Georgios (author)Environmental damage and the resulting global warming are two of the most serious threats to living species. These problems are the result of industrialization in all fields. The textile and fashion industries bear a negative impact on the environment and contribute significantly to water, air, and solid waste pollution. Over the last decades...review 2023
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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Yu, Chenxi (author), Qian, QK (author), Huang, R. (author), You, K. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Under China's national strategy of carbon neutrality by 2060, it is urgently necessary and challenging for the governments to proactively explore policy tools to facilitate energy-efficient renovation of existing buildings. Currently, a considerable number of studies have been conducted on building energy-efficient renovation and its...review 2023
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Karki, Lokendra (author), Della Santina, C. (author), Xylia, Maria (author), Laub, Moritz (author), Ismangil, D.S. (author), Virla, L.D. (author), Rahn, Eric (author), Bilbao, Bibiana Alejandra (author), Indriani, Siti Nurlaila (author)Land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs) are critical for achieving the Paris Agreement’s aim of avoiding dangerous climate change by limiting the rise in average global surface temperatures. We developed a detailed two-level classification and analysis of the barriers to the adoption and scaling up of LMTs. The review suggests...review 2023
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Dyer, W.E. (author), Kumru, B. (author)The aerospace industry has been benefiting from the utilization of polymer materials since fiber-reinforced polymer composites (FRPC) offer high performances at low densities compared to metals. FRPC facilitated the design of lightweight materials, which is extensively used in aviation today. Since their first integration into structural...review 2023
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Wan, Pei (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Wang, Huan (author), Gong, Xing (author), Zhao, Zenggang (author), Xu, S. (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)Self-healing is a biological phenomenon in which living organism responds to the suffered damage in a complex way. Inspired by the self-healing phenomenon in nature, various biomimetic healing methods rooted in intrinsic or extrinsic healing mechanisms have been explored. Research on novel self-healing asphalt materials with intelligent...review 2023
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Tsui, To Hung (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Dai, Yanjun (author), Tong, Yen Wah (author)Biorefinery systems are playing pivotal roles in the technological support of resource efficiency for circular bioeconomy. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence presents great potential in handling scientific tasks of high-dimensional complexity. This review article scrutinizes the status of machine learning (ML) applications in four critical...review 2023
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Ravi Anusuyadevi, P. (author), Prasanna Kumar, Darsi Jaya (author), Omkaara Jyothi, A.D.H.V. (author), Patwardhan, Neha S. (author), Janani, V. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)The maintenance of people’s lifestyle against global climate change, exhaustion of groundwater, depletion of minerals, and water scarcity has instigated the recycling and reuse of water from unlikely sources. This situation has motivated researchers to develop effective technologies for treating wastewater, enabling its reuse. Water security has...review 2023
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Xie, Mingjing (author), Qiu, Yangzi (author), Liang, Yishuang (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)The application of building information modeling (BIM) technology has effectively supported the high-quality development of building sustainability and informatization in China. However, few studies comprehensively analyzed the enacted policies, prevalent applications, and existing barriers of the latest application and development of BIM...review 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The cohesive and adhesive performances of bituminous materials significantly affect the service life of asphalt pavement. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method has been proved as an effective tool to predict the thermodynamics parameters of different multisubstance and multi-phase bitumen models during different diffusion, self-healing,...review 2022
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Maghsoudi Nia, E. (author), Qian, QK (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)This review of studies into Energy Efficiency Retrofitting (EER) has shown the practice of EER to be a key factor in sustainability regeneration. Thus, the retrofitting practice itself (the way it is organised) has received increasing attention from both practitioners and researchers, and studies are now addressing some issues that are affecting...review 2022
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De Marchi, Valentina (author), Pineda-Escobar, Maria A. (author), Howell, R.J. (author), Verheij, Michelle (author), Knorringa, Peter (author)Purpose: Advance the state-of-the-art on how frugal innovation links to sustainability outcomes and based on content analysis of empirical publications in the field of frugal innovation, analyzing when and how FI is connected with social, environmental and economic outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative content analysis on empirical...review 2022