Professionals must face great changes and challenges therefore higher education schools always seek to develop skills that allow students meet the real needs of businesses today and be prepared for future needs. To do this, ...

Having an environmental management system (EMS) certified in ISO 14001 or verified in EMAS in a Higher Education Institution does not ensure the availability of the data needed to carry an Organizational Life Cycle Assessment ...

In Colombia the MusculoSkeletal Disorders (MSD) represents the first cause of occupational morbidity with an 88% of all cases. Because of this, arises the need to generate strategies that facilitate the development of ...

Energy-intensive industries - highly sensitive to the increase and volatility of the electricity price- are increasingly exposed to international competition. This fact is one of the main drivers of the ongoing process of ...

The University of Guadalajara is the second largest university in Mexico hosting more than 260 000 students, plus professors, researchers and administrative staff. The monthly electricity consumption amounts to about 4GWh ...

In the last decades, the regulations to protect people in case of an emergency and to prevent them have gone through a great evolution, especially since the first “Normas Básicas de Edificación”, which established the ...

The design and construction of rail vehicles is a very specialized activity, in which very few companies participate globally, which means that competitors are almost always the same in the procurement procedures that are ...

Nowadays none questions the great benefits of the natural environment and consequently of the trees, both those that grow in forests and those that are in urban areas, that is, the ornamental trees. However, the fact that ...

The usual practice of consumerism in large supermarkets is characterized by the use of shopping trolleys whose contents are bagged for removal from the supermarket to the home. The use of plastic bags involves the consumption ...

This study shows the preparation of an inorganic new mortar with impermeabilizing properties based on phyllites. A particular granulometry in its formulation is considered, with addition of a binder and an organic compound ...