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Hao Yu1 \*, Elisabeth Román<sup>2</sup> and Wei Deng Solvang1

\*Address all correspondence to: hao.yu@uit.no

1 Department of Industrial Engineering, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Narvik, Norway

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2 Department of Building, Energy and Material Technology, UiT—The Arctic University of Norway, Narvik, Norway
