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TL;DR: This paper presents the results of a research project aimed at examining the capabilities and challenges of two distinct but not mutually exclusive approaches to in-service bridge assessment: visual inspection and installed monitoring systems.

TL;DR: Analysis of electricity data until the end of May 2020, examining both electricity demand and variables that can indicate stress on the power grid indicates that a 10% (95% CI [2%, 18%]) increase in electricity demand is likely to have occurred due to COVID-19 for the city analyzed.

TL;DR: The authors in this article examined observations by tornado damage assessment teams led by the first author in these two medium-sized cities and suggested that the evolution of building codes and past approaches to construction have led to conditions that made this extent of damage possible.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the energy consumption trends of 10 LEED-certified buildings and 14 non-LEED certified buildings at a major university in the US and found that the average energy use intensity (EUI) of the LEED buildings was significantly higher than non-leeds buildings.

TL;DR: A number of simple, yet effective, techniques that improve GA performance for TCT problems are demonstrated; the most effective of which is a novel problem encoding, based on weighted graphs, that enables the critical path problem to be partially solved for all candidate solutions a priori, thus significantly increasing fitness evaluation.