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Low carbon housing refurbishment challenges in Ireland : a discussion
(2013)
There are a great many variants which need to be considered prior to undertaking a building’s
refurbishment, including: cost of refurbishment and the pay-back time, effects to health and
the environment in respect to ...
Addressing engineering teaching issues in online distance learning
(2011)
Efforts by IT Sligo to transfer courses into an online distance learning format since 2002 ran into
three significant obstacles, namely the expense of developing learning materials for niche
areas, an inability to teach ...
An investigation into the commercialisation of final year projects within Creative Design courses
(2014)
The aim of this study is to identify and investigate the barriers to commercialisation of Final Year Projects within Creative Design courses. The term Creative Design refers to Creative Design, Product Design and Industrial ...
The effect of organic fibres on the undrained shear strength of soil
(2013)
Accurate determination of soil’s undrained shear strength is essential to make informed decisions regarding construction or maintenance problems. Reduced scale modelling can achieve accurate predictions of in-situ field ...
An investigation into the utilisation of energy in landfill gas to supply a community electricity and district heating scheme
(2011)
The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of producing and distributing energy in the form electricity and district heating, derived from LFG (Landfill Gas)
produced by an existing municipal waste stream. The ...
Practice as presence - presence as practice : building a framework for collective understanding of contemporary graffiti-making practices /
(2017)
In times when graffiti is recognised as a global phenomenon rooted in urban public spaces it is important that authorities, researchers, audiences and graffitists themselves understand collectively the mechanisms that drive ...
The Application of Computational Chemistry and Chemometrics to Developing a Method for Online Monitoring of Polymer Degradation in the Manufacture of Bioresorbable Medical Implants /
(Springer-Verlag, 2014)
Bioresorbable polymers such as PLA have an important role to play in the development of temporary implantable medical devices with significant benefits over traditional therapies. However, development of new devices is ...
An investigation of geosynthetic reinforced piled embankments with particular reference to embankment extremities
(2013)
The design of reinforced piled embankments is a complex soil-structure interaction problem involving embankment fill, geosynthetic reinforcement, a pile group and the soft underlying soil. In designing a reinforced piled ...