Construction in Spain has been over the past two decades about 10% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the main engine of the Spanish economy, but the current global economic situation with the peculiarities of the Spanish ...

The Spanish industrial heritage is considered much worse than other Spanish heritage sectors and industrial heritage in other countries. The 2001 Industrial Heritage National Plan (PNPI) was a first step in the enhancement ...

The concrete is a fairly resistant building material, which is worked in its plastic form, so it can take almost any form. This material consists essentially of water, cement, coarse and fine aggregates, air and then they ...

In the north of Mexico exist a very big demand of industrial lots in particularly mode due an important increase of the commercial trade between Mexico-USA-Canada and the international market. The increase of the commercial ...

As part of a research project that we are conducting into accidents in the construction industry in La Rioja, a number of comprehensive, rigorous surveys were carried out using a preset structure to prevent interviewees ...

The present paper is part of a set of articles, many of them in project, which aims to study the fire behavior of structures in agrofood industries and horticultural plants in particular. In Spain, in recent years, there ...

The dairy farms evolved substantially since 1986 (Spain joins the EU), suffered cyclical processes of restructuring and abandonment, present today where many farms are confronted the difficult decision to continue or stop ...

The analysis of landscape heterogeneity is a useful tool in classification and mapping processes, and delineation of landscape planning units. Habitually, definition of the level of landscape heterogeneity and its spatial ...

Hospitals usually require a very high energy demand due to their activity along all the days of the year. Energy consumption increment together with an increase in the costs of production have led to a continuing concern ...

Energy dependence of water networks for their exploitation makes its variable costs come to overshadow the construction costs or fixed costs in the long term. The aim of this paper is to analyze alternatives to minimize ...