Magdalena Hajdukiewicz

Real-time monitoring of a hybrid precast and in situ concrete flat slab system

Abstract The motivation and implementation of a real-time structural health monitoring strategy to determine the structural performance of a number of educational buildings recently constructed in Ireland is discussed in this paper. In recent years, smart materials with embedded instrumentation has been installed in a number of buildings at the National University of Ireland Galway during the construction phase, which allows continuous monitoring of the behaviour of the structure. Instrumentation installed on a number of projects, described in this paper, allow many important aspects of structures to be monitored during construction, as well as in the operational phase of the building such as temperature, concrete and reinforcement strain, deflection, and response to the environment.

Methodology for quality checks for energy efficient buildings

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 637221.The authors would also like to acknowledge the funding received from the Science Foundation Ireland through the Career Development Award programme (Grant No. 13/CDA/2200).

Attitudes and approaches of Irish retrofit industry professionals towards achieving nearly zero-energy buildings

The authors gratefully acknowledge all the participants of the survey, workshop and interviews and also Science Foundation Ireland for the funding support through the Career Development Award Programme (Grant No. 13/CDA/2200).

Behaviour of hybrid concrete lattice girder flat slab system using insitu structural health monitoring

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the European Commission Horizon 2020 project Built2Spec (637221). The support of Oran Pre-Cast Ltd. is gratefully acknowledged with respect to installation of sensors in the precast concrete elements. The second author would also like to acknowledge the support of Science Foundation Ireland through the Career Development Award programme (Grant No. 13/CDA/2200) and the National Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) (Grant no. 12/RC/2302).

Diagnostics and intervention methods for façade retrofit of post-WWII non-domestic buildings in Europe for energy efficiency

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Science Foundation Ireland through the Career Development Award programme (Grant No. 13/CDA/2200).

Generating robust algorithms for energy efficient lighting as a performance aspect of the building operational energy optimisation framework

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of SFI through the CDA programme (Grant No. 13/CDA/2200).

How accurate are Energy Performance Certificates indicated energy savings of building retrofits

The authors wish to acknowledge the financial support from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) for this research (Grant No. RSF1295).