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Chart from Research Brief: How to Improve Pavement LCCA, A Case Study
Research Brief: How to Improve Pavement LCCA, A Case Study
Mon, 06/26/2017
Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) frameworks are used by some transportation agencies for economic...
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FEMA photo, officials examine damage after Hurricane Matthew.
MIT News: Building to better weather the storm
Tue, 06/13/2017
Our Break-Even Mitigation Percentage (BEMP) allows users to calculate the amount of spending that...
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Roland Pellenq leads a panel at the 2017 Concrete Symposium
Concrete Symposium Puts Environmental Concerns at the Forefront
Mon, 05/22/2017
Big cities are already in a period of unprecedented “hyper-growth” and the United Nations predicts...
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Illustration: a bandaid stretches across a cartoon stretch of road with cars traveling across it. (James Bareham for The Verge)
CSHub Faculty Director Quoted in "The Verge"
Thu, 05/11/2017
Have scientists discovered the cure for potholes? CSHub Faculty Director Franz-Josef Ulm spoke with...
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Chart from Air Leakage Influential in Building Life Cycle Impacts, CSHub Research Brief
Research Brief: Air leakage has strong influence on building life cycle impacts
Tue, 05/02/2017
Making informed decisions at the earliest stages of the design process can lead to improved...
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MIT CSHub Faculty Director Franz Josef Ulm presents to USTDA Delegates from India
Speaking Engagements March, April 2017
Mon, 05/01/2017
In March and April 2017, CSHub researchers traveled to Illinios, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Portugal,...
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Graph from CSHub research brief, "Planning more resilient cities"
Research Brief: Planning more resilient cities
Tue, 03/28/2017
The International Code Council (ICC)'s structural design codes are specific to building type and...
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Image from Concrete Sustainability Hub research brief, quantifying the impact of pavement reflectivity.
Research Brief: Quantifying the impact of pavement reflectivity
Mon, 03/13/2017
The change in radiative energy balance, which is called radiative forcing (RF), reduces nearby air...
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MIT CEE Professor Franz-Josef Ulm explains Urban Physics to a delegation of senior Panamanian Government Officials who paid a visit the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub.
February 2017 Speaking Engagements
Mon, 03/06/2017
With four public presentations, February was a busy month for the CSHub team. Early in the month,...
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Leaders from cement industry organizations across the globe met at MIT in February.
Global cement meeting paves the way for worldwide collaboration
Fri, 03/03/2017
Leaders of cement and concrete industry organizations from 11 countries and regions from around the...
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