Losses and heat gains through the facades have a significant influence on annual consumption of heating and cooling of buildings. Moreover, there is a recent trend among some architects considering facades as sophisticated ...

In the energy sector, the Dominican Republic offers an opportunity for domestic and foreign investment for urbanized areas with the introduction of a legal framework where renewable energy producers receive legal benefits ...

Probably designed by the architect Jacinto Arregui, the structure of the building, located in the old town of Logroño (La Rioja- Spain), and which data are available since 1867, has five trusses “amansardadas” type, which ...

After a period of low milk prices received by producers during the second half of 2007 and early 2008 they came to perceive almost 50 euros per 100 litres of milk. This brief boom period was succeeded a five year period ...

The construction sector has evolved quickly in recent decades with the existence of increasingly complex projects and more risks, while they have been growing demands on product quality and service. The stalemate in the ...

Manabi’s province has the highest child chronic under-nutrition in the Costa region in Ecuador. One of the reasons of the farmers Food Insecurity is the growing trend towards monoculture that implies a decrease in crops ...

The Critical Chain method has been implemented in a wide variety of industries, activities and countries. This article is based on the implementation of this method in two different units of the same company which designs, ...

Until recently, the design of new models of semitrailer has been performed based on the experience of the manufacturers of such vehicles. In the last five years the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University ...

Proper management of stormwater is a particularly important aspect which largely determines the urban development and its sustainability. Unlike traditional interventions -purely quantitative and focusing on the evacuation ...

There are many industrial activities that requiere a cost, schedule and quality mesurement and control, but there are not usually managed in a project way. This communication describes a methodology for the industrial ...