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The spatial mismatch between available urban land and construction suitability constitutes a persistent challenge in civil engineering and urban planning, exacerbated by proprietary data costs and methodological opacity. This study formalizes a reproducible multi-criteria decision analysis framework leveraging vector datasets to derive quantitative construction site suitability indices through standardized geocomputation workflows. Employing buffer topology operations, Euclidean distance transforms, and weighted l...

Construction marketing requires visual evidence of site potential to secure client commitment, but accessible geospatial tools remain limited for small developers. This study presents a streamlined analysis workflow generating client-ready heatmaps that quantify site attractiveness through standardized metrics: accessibility (road network proximity), visibility (line-of-sight exposure), and neighborhood quality (amenities proximity). Using conventional buffer analysis on crowd-sourced layers, the methodology produ...

The construction industry plays a critical role in global carbon emissions, contributing significantly to climate change. Embodied carbon, which encompasses all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the extraction, production, transportation, and construction of materials, has become a critical focus in sustainable design. Building Information Modeling (BIM), with tools such as Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Forma, One Click LCA and Tully, among others, offers opportunities to streamline embodied carbon analysi...

This paper outlines the methodology of a technical due diligence preparation for the reconsolidation process of an abandoned building. The structure highlighted in this paper is an existing but incomplete building that has been abandoned for more than over a decade. For this study a technical due diligence was performed to assess the current condition of the asset presented on the next chapters of this paper. A technical due diligence represent the research and analysis discovery process which helps to collect ess...

Nowadays, an important objective for researchers is to find an alternative to build cheaper and greener, sustainable and also durable. To discover a material with better thermal and acoustic performances than conventional concrete by using natural and renewable components in its composition became also an obvious trend. The agriculture products, mainly those considered as waste in this field, fulfill all the above mentioned requirements, being also widely available and with higher thermal and acoustic properties t...

New building materials were obtained in the last decades by using different types of cements, aggregates, additives or additions. Additions such as s powder, aggregate, fiber, etc. were tested for obtaining new properties of concrete or for finding a way to consume the wastes. The paper presents the experimental results obtained on fly ash concrete with waste fibers. The concrete was prepared with substitution of cement with fly ash in different dosages (10%, 15%, 20%, 30% and 40%) and two types of fibers (hemp an...