In the following years thousands of electric cars are expected to be sold. Knowing that these batteries are not useful anymore for traction services after they have lost a 20% of its capacity, there will be thousands of ...

Projects are subject to an important degree of uncertainty since its inception. This uncertainty results into risks that will have consequences in it, preventing meeting its goals. These deviations suggest that risk ...

The liberalization of the electrical sector with Ley 54/1997, involved a significant change in the organization of the sector. It had a special impact in the generation activity. This activity evolved from having a high ...

The definition of the movement that a force produces in a part of the human body is known as one of the acceptations of the Biomechanics. At present, there exist technologies to reproduce and capture the movement of the ...

In order to prevent and reduce anthropogenic air pollution, gas emissions from a wide range of industrial activities are being limited by progressively more restrictive regulations. Therefore, the end-of-pipe treatment of ...

The entry into force of the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has promoted the upgrade of the learning methods used in Spanish universities. The incorporation of ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation ...

In the past XVII International Congress on Project Management and Engineering we presented a paper in which was manifested how loads of packages occasionally stored in the fruit and vegetable plants can lead to a greater ...

A Building Information Model (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a building that, using open standards, aims to facilitate the decisions making not only during the design and ...

Although the sequence of construction activities can be represented by a CPM network or a Gantt chart, the absence of visualization of such activities difficults the communication between different stakeholders. Most ...

This paper analyses communication for development from a new perspective: the project in its broader and most genuine sense, as an instrument for changing current reality. This is examined from both its theoretical and ...