...Adnan Enshassi; Salam Elzebdeh; Sherif Mohamed © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The Gaza Strip in Palestine is suffering from a shortage of water and energy. To manage the current situation and address future issues, practical...

...Tord af Klintberg; Folke Björk Purpose Water damage is a severe problem in modern construction, causing economic loss and health implications. By using the patented Air Gap Method inside building constructions, harmful water in the construction can be dried out. The method drains and ventilates...

...Tord af Klintberg; Gudni Johannesson; Folke Björk Purpose Water damage is a severe problem in modern construction, causing economic loss and health implications. The patented Air Gap Method, which is a slight modification of the common infill wall construction, provides means to build houses...

...M.Y.L. Chew; Nayanthara De Silva; S.S. Tan This paper discusses some important findings from a research project on the maintainability of wet areas of high‐rise non‐residential, buildings. The implications of six key factors of maintainability namely water‐tightness, spatial, integrity, ventilation...

...M.Y.L. Chew; Nayanthara De Silva Basement defects such as water seepages/leakages are tedious and expensive to rectify. Intensive research has been conducted to study the problem type, their causes and preventive measures. The study explored 987 water seepage/leakage cases in 61 buildings. Eleven...

...Alan Richardson Recent laboratory research has shown that small additions of monofilament polypropylene fibres in concrete, in diameter range of 22 to 35 micron by 19mm long, reduce the flow of water through the concrete matrix by preventing the transmission of water through the normal modes...