by GCO | Aug 28, 2020 | experts
By 2035, China’s government expects over 70% of the country’s population — around a billion people — to be living in cities. Both Shanghai and Beijing have announced population limits and are implementing policies to reduce the number of new...
by GCO | Aug 28, 2020 | Geotechnical
Aouthor(s) Minh Ngan Vu; Wout Broere; and Johan W. Bosch Abstract Generally, studies on structural design for bored tunnels focus on moderate to deep tunnels (cover-to-diameter ratio C/D ≥ 2). Such tunnel design methods cannot be used for shallow-situated bored...
by GCO | Aug 28, 2020 | News
An end to “copycat” buildings and a ban on skyscrapers taller than 500 meters (1,640 feet) are among the Chinese government’s new guidelines for architects, property developers and urban planners. Outlining what it calls a “new era” for...
by GCO | Aug 28, 2020 | News
Dubai is a city where firefighters use jetpacks, archipelagos are built from scratch, and buildings climb into the clouds; a slick metropolis in the middle of a vast red desert. First-time visitors would be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled onto a film set for a...
by GCO | Aug 28, 2020 | Buildings & Structures
Aouthor(s) Norimitsu Kishi, Ph.D., M.ASCE ; Masato Komuro, Ph.D. ; Tomoki Kawarai ; and Hiroshi Mikami, Ph.D Abstract In this paper, which focuses on the fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet bonding method for improving the impact resistance of RC beams,...
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