Rethinking the pathway to sustainable fire retardants

Rethinking Automation in the Sustainable Building

Since the first ISARC conference in 1984 and the formation of IAARC in 1990 there has been much development of interest in and understanding of automation and robotics in construction. The ‘intelligent building’ [1] [2] and the ‘learning building’ [3] are conceptual examples. Yiu and Yau [4] have published a ‘learning model of intelligent home’. At the same time there has been growing interest ...

Properties of Flat-Pressed Wood Plastic Composites Containing Fire Retardants

This study investigated physical, mechanical, and fire properties of the flat-pressed wood plastic composites (WPCs) incorporated with various fire retardants (FRs) [5 or 15% by weight (wt)] at 50 wt % of the wood flour (WF). The WPC panels were made from dryblended WF, polypropylene (PP) with maleic anhydridegrafted PP (2 wt %), and FR powder formulations using a conventional flat-pressing pro...

Rethinking Foreign Investment for Sustainable Development

Thermal Stability and Fire Properties of Salen and Metallosalens as Fire Retardants in Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU)

This study deals with the synthesis and evaluation of salen based derivatives as fire retardants in thermoplastic polyurethane. Salens, hydroxysalens and their first row transition metal complexes (salen-M) were synthesized (Copper, Manganese, Nickel and Zinc). They were then incorporated in thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) with a loading as low as 10:1 weight ratio. The thermal stability as we...

Rethinking Health reforms in Iran: letter to the editor

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