Dr. Demir specialties include sustainable design, energy efficient buildings, urban building energy modeling, integrating and controlling building loads, building energy modeling and analysis, and ...

Civil/Structural engineers design and maintain buildings, bridges, and other structures constructed from various materials (concrete, steel, timber, masonry, and reinforced plastics). They use modern ...

As the need for a circular construction industry becomes progressively more apparent, building practitioners are increasingly turning to salvaged building components to construct new projects. Yet the ...

Beyond environmental advantages, adaptive reuse delivers measurable economic and social benefits. Using existing structures often shortens construction timelines, reduces material and labor costs, and ...

Reuse of Architectural Components’ proposes a circular construction industry in which the reuse of waste materials could ...

Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip is a charming hodgepodge where buildings old and new jostle for space with palm trees and rotating billboards. Adding to this riotous scene is a new urban marker every bit ...

In Los Angeles’s Chinatown, LEVER Architecture has refashioned a windowless warehouse and its subterranean parking garage into 4.5 floors of office space, where the connection between indoors and ...