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Abstract: Improving productivity through the adoption and development of a new IT technology is becoming a new paradigm in the construction industry. In infrastructure projects, cost reduction through Value Engineering (VE) is becoming the major concern of construction projects. As a result, civil Building Information Modelling (BIM) is being adopted. The application of civil BIM is usually considered as...
Abstract: The energy slab is a ground coupled heat exchanger equipped in building slab structures, which has a similar layout to the horizontal ground heat exchanger (GHEX). As the energy slab is generally installed at the shallow depth, its thermal performance is notably inferior to the conventional vertical GHEXs. This is because the energy slab cannot use the high thermal capacity of a deep...