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Showing 1 to 20 of 221 for “"demolition"”.
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Demolition in American city planning
Demolition is deeply embedded in urban systems. It has been explained as both the inevitable churn of the built environment and as a grand gesture of human control of the urban organism. This thesis examines the three main arguments for demolition: social reform, modernization, and non-conformity. …
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The generative powers of demolition
… act as one of un-building. Considering demolition as an activity of design, this thesis explores the potential of the often-overlooked violence needed to make architecture. A selective type of demolition called raizing would provide careful and responsible ways of removing a building or …
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Demolition Space and Housing Removal Policy in Detroit
… Detroit began a program of "targeted and rapid demolition" of its housing stock, aimed at removing all of the city's "blighted" buildings. As the largest currently ongoing housing removal operation in the United States, with $250 million in funding and over 13,000 houses demolished so far, the …
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Performance Enhancement of Concrete Produced with Treated Demolition Waste Aggregates
… of recycled aggregate from construction and demolition waste in civil engineering applications has proved to be an eco-friendly approach to overcome the current environmental concerns. Nevertheless, the poor quality of recycled aggregate and the high uncertainty of recycled aggregate concrete …
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Assessing construction and demolition waste generation rates using satellite imagery
… quantitative variations in construction and demolition (C&D) waste remains underexplored. Especially the COVID- 19 pandemic disrupted conventional municipal solid waste (MSW) management practices and affected waste generation rates. While MSW streams have been extensively studied and …
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The adaptation and demolition of existing buildings on masterplan sites
… the practical realities of adaptation and demolition decisions at the masterplan scale. As existing adaptation theory mainly focuses on individual buildings or the city level, it is not sufficient for explaining decisions on large brownfield sites being redeveloped through the …
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Falling isn't the End: Reimagining Demolition as a Creative Practice
This thesis investigates resilience not as an endpoint but as a condition of continuous transformation. It critiques the shortcomings of current architectural discourse in addressing climate disasters, waste, and carbon footprints. While these crises are widely acknowledged, architecture often …
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Developing a cost effective construction and demolition waste management plan
Concern over construction and demolition (C&D) wastes is becoming a prevalent part of any construction project. Historically, landfilling waste materials was the standard solution for most contractors, but as tipping fees have risen dramatically over the past five to seven years, many contractors …
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Capacity building for post disaster waste management : construction and demolition waste
… with special emphasise on Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste atnational level entities in Sri Lanka. Disaster C&D waste comprises of waste such asdebris generated from totally or partially damaged buildings and infrastructure as a directimpact of disasters or from demolished buildings …
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The use of construction and demolition waste in concrete in Cape Town
… to promote the use of RAs, a construction and demolition waste (C&DW) recycling culture has to be developed. Analysis of municipal waste data over the past 10 years shows that the commercial aggregate industry and market has not grown. A major contributor to the excess C&DW in the City, is the …
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The effect of carbonation after demolition on the life cycle assessment of pavements
… have studied the effects of carbonation after demolition. This work fills the gap between estimates of carbonation in a life cycle assessment for pavements by considering the effects of the storage method on the uptake of CO₂ after the concrete demolished. It is observed that how the concrete …
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After the Demolition: Constructing the Communal Riots of 1992--1993 in the Indian Media
"The demolition can be seen as a moment of weakening, but not rupture, of the liberal-secular consensus in the nation. The continuing strength of the hegemony built around secularism has forced even those on the Hindu right to position themselves as the ""true"" secularists in order to retain …
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The use of aggregate from demolition rubble in the making of ordinary and structural concretes
The aim of this thesis is to introduce the concept of recycling demolished concrete as aggregate which is then used in fresh concrete - to be known as "recycled concrete". Various aspects of concrete technology are covered and in this way recycled concrete is compared to conventional concrete. The …
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Construction and demolition waste management : assessment of demand and supply of recycled materials in the Western Cape
… the efforts to reuse or recycle construction and demolition waste. The intention is not only to reduce environmental desecration, but also to recycle the construction and demolition waste into potential building materials to be reused elsewhere. This study investigated the supply and demand of …
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