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Research Brief: Community-Informed Building-Scale Resilience Assessment
(2020-02)
It is widely known that natural hazards, like hurricanes, cause tremendous levels of damage and that hazard mitigation can significantly curb natural hazard-induced losses. However, necessary investments are still needed ...
Research Brief: Investigating the Mechanisms of ASR Using Atomistic Methods
(2020-05)
With 20% of highway pavements in the U.S. in poor condition, mitigating pavement failure has become increasingly important. However, the mechanisms of the alkali-silica-reaction (ASR), a leading cause of damage in concrete ...
Research Brief: Assessing Road Quality Using Crowdsourced Smartphone Measurements
(2020-07)
As the demands on the nation’s roads increase, so too have road maintenance costs. To meet these challenges, agencies must vigilantly monitor road surface quality to properly apportion resources. Traditional methods of ...
Research Brief: Generating Component-level Building-specific Fragility Curves
(2020-11)
One of the most essential tools for representing the vulnerability of a structure is the fragility curve. By capturing the probability of damage at a given load level, fragility curves provide a way to express how a ...
Research Brief: Mitigation Solutions for GHG Emissions in New Construction
(2020-09)
By 2050, the United States is projected to add 121 billion ft2 of buildings—equivalent to constructing New York City every year for the next 20 years. However, to meet climate change goals the U.S. building sector must ...
Research Brief: Improving Pavement Network Conditions Through Competition
(2020-10)
Past CSHub research has shown that increased competition among paving material substitutes is correlated with lower unit prices for both asphalt and concrete. Thus, there is potential for increased competition to increase ...
Research Brief: Optimizing Building Life Cycle Environmental Impact and Cost
(2020-02)
Existing building life cycle assessment tools rely on detailed building models that make it difficult to explore the environmental implications of design strategies in the earliest design phases. Most of these tools are ...
A Scientific Investigation into Concrete Pavement Durability
(MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, Oregon State University, University of New Brunswick, 2021-01)
Although concrete pavements offer many long-term performance benefits, there are still instances where premature degradation of pavements leads to unexpected and costly repairs. In addition to being a burden to transportation ...
Research Brief: Can Passive House and Zero-energy Building Standards Promise a Low-carbon Future?
(2020-05)
Passive house (PH) and zero-energy building (ZEB) standards aim to reduce the energy consumption and carbon footprints of buildings. The PH concept implies a low energy consumption achieved through passive technology such ...
Research Brief: Molecular Dynamics-based Resilience Assessment of Structures
(2020-07)
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), losses due to fire in structures in America amount to around $13 billion annually. Despite these severe economic consequences, building codes often don’t ...