2月，受春节、寒冷天气等因素影响，水泥和平板玻璃仍 处于行业淡季，整体需求回落，产销总体偏淡。价格方面， 水泥价格下行，东北等地区召开玻璃会议对玻璃价格有所提振。出口方面，出口市场较为清淡，水泥和平板玻璃出口量均有所下降。预计3月，建设施工将陆续启动，建材需求将缓慢复苏，水泥和平板玻璃产销量将有所回升，价格有望小幅上涨。

2014年1～2月我国宏观经济各项指标下滑，表明今年宏观经济开局并不乐观。建筑业景气指数持续走低，企业家信心不足。需求方面，由于全国固定资产投资增速继续回落，房地产投资同步放缓，建筑业新签合同价款增速环比下跌，建筑业需求偏弱。投资方面，交通、水利投资表现相对优秀，带动建筑业固定投资增速略有回升。成本方面，建筑材料工业生产者价格指数环比上涨0.03个百分点，回暖迹象明显。下一阶段，经济结构调整将继续成为经济工作的主旋律，建筑行业增长将回归至理性，保持相对平稳的发展态势。交通基础设施、水利工程、保障房建设将在国家的大力扶持下持续发力，成为基础建设需求的有力支撑。同时，随着城镇化规划即将出台，建筑业有望引来新的增长动力。此外，绿色建筑、智能建筑仍是行业热点。

Insulation in buildings regulates the heat generated inside the building. The insulation materials used, help to control the heat that is dissipated through conduction, convection, and radiation. Apart from their unique thermal properties, insulation materials also provide protection against sound, fire, and impact. The Global Insulation market is expected to witness steady growth during the period 2013-2018. A major part of the market revenue was generated from the APAC region, followed by the EMEA region and the Americas. The overall market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.17 percent during the forecast period.

Industrial coatings are a class of paints and coatings that are used mainly for protective purposes, though they are often also used for aesthetic purposes. Industrial coatings are used in a wide range of industries such as Automotive, Construction, and Electronics, and are available in four different forms of technology: liquid, powder, pretreatment, and electrocoat.

Asphalt is the refined residue from the distillation process of some specific petroleum refined crude oils. It is the petroleum-derived pitch which is primarily used in road construction as a glue or binder and is mixed with aggregate particles for creating asphalt concrete. Asphalt finds its application in a variety of areas such as paving, roofing, and waterproof sealing.

The Center for Nondestructive Evaluation at Iowa State University has experience in development of measurement techniques and new sensors using a variety of interrogating energies. This research evaluated feasibility of three technologies—x-ray radiation, groundpenetrating radar (GPR), and magnetic flux leakage (MFL)—for detection and quantification of corrosion of embedded reinforcing steel.The methods provide useful and complementary information. GPR provides a rapid approach to identify reinforcing steel that has anomalous responses. MFL provides similar detection responses but could be optimized to provide more quantitative correlation to actual condition. Full implementation could use either GPR or MFL methods to identify areas of concern, followed by radiography to give a visual image of the actual condition, providing the final guidance for maintenance actions.

This thesis examines the state of the art of building information systems and evaluates their architecture in the context of emerging technologies and applications for deep analysis of the built environment. Our system, StreamFS, embodies these system properties through a filesystem abstraction and a set of data services. Data services are made available to applications through an overloaded pipe abstraction. This allows for dataflow specification of processing streams to clean and analyze the streaming sensor data.

We present a physics-based mathematical model of thermal behavior of buildings,along with a novel Parameter Adaptive Building (PAB) model framework to update the model parameters.We then address the "Cyber-Physical" aspect of a building HVAC system in the design flow.The last part of this dissertation is centered on the role of smart buildings in the context of the smart grid.

This Manual covers the relevant issues related to orthotropic steel deck bridge engineering, including analysis, design, detailing, fabrication, testing, inspection, evaluation, and repair.

One of the biggest problems affecting bridges is the transverse cracking and deterioration of concrete bridge decks.This research identifies suitable sealing materials for deck cracks showing their ability to span cracks of various widths and achieving performance criteria such as penetration depth, bond strength to crack walls, elongation, viscosity, penetration, and suitability of the type of sealant.

This report contains the analysis and retrofit of a steel truss bridge on KY 974 over Howard Creek in Clark County, Kentucky. The bridge had major corrosion and damage to the steel stringers, along with cracking and leaching occurring in the concrete bridge deck.

This document consists of 14 papers that explore construction road user costs in rural areas, value of tablet computers in transportation construction inspection, benefits of three- and four-dimensional computer-aided design models, comparison of public-private partnerships and traditional procurement methods, construction manager-general contractor delivered projects, and volumetric and mechanistic test variability on predicted performance of asphalt pavement.

Deterioration of bridge substructures has been a serious concern throughout Wisconsin. Concrete, steel and timber components all require distinct repair methods which not only address the true cause of the deterioration, but also protect the component from future damage. In order to determine common repair practices and their success rates, the research team surveyed maintenance engineers throughout the United States to determine successful and reliable substructure repair techniques.

The report discusses 21 papers on topics including general structures; steel bridges; concrete bridges; field testing and nondestructive evaluation of transportation structures; tunnels and underground structures; culverts and hydraulic structures; structural fiber-reinforced polymers; and critical transportation infrastructure protection.