The originality of the climate in La Rioja lies in the interference of oceanic, Mediterranean, Continental, etc, aspects. The climate varies in relation to the particular physical properties. From cold and damp mountain ...

In spite of their high initial cost compared to that of the traditional burial system, many cities have chosen to build utility tunnels as being the best option for the future arrangement of the large amount of service ...

The carrying out of infrastructure projects inside consolidated urban areas is always a complex question, especially if this area is affected by preexisting monuments or relevant archaeological remains. Very often the ...

Landscape ecology discipline must be included as one of the basis of landscape planning. Since 1991, Landscape ecology has been formulated as a future guideline in planning due to its theoretical framework to study the ...

The prevention of health and safety hazards has been a major boom in recent times. The society has conformed that ethical and economic losses caused by the victims and damages are inconsistent with the level of development ...

The urban expansion develops to a speed and scale without precedents; turning into a world topic with social, environmental and economic consequences. Now there is a difficulty to establish a clear formal limits which ...

In the last decade of the 20th century, Galicia constitutes in laboratory for the implantation of an innovative model of organization of the territory, the Comarcal Development Plan, that having its origin in the theoretical ...

Project management in civil engineering construction projects that can be called "special" at both the design and undertaking levels must be more exhaustive, if possible, than other civil engineering projects of similar ...

A house ventilation system can be mechanical or hybrid with the use of natural ventilation being limited to a complementary system. The mechanical extractor must operate continuously throughout the day while the hybrid ...

Project engineering in water resources management specifically involves free surface flows in open channels systems. Typical channel control design includes the project of gates and weirs for both discharge measurement and ...