Present paper exposes a methodology to incorporate carbon footprint calculation in urban planning process. Methodology is aligned with available information in the urban planning phase and allows defining preventive ...

The current globalization and fierce competitiveness of the world economy has led to the neglect of social and environmental aspects on many occasions, even in the development of public policies and plans. At the global ...

Thermal insulation materials play an important role in the challenge of nearly zero-energy buildings due to their potential in reducing building’s energy demand and carbon emissions. However, increasing the insulation ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inclusion of sustainable criteria in public tenders could achieve environmental and social benefits. For this reason, public agencies are seriously involved in designing and implementing sustainable procurement policies ...

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 studies the utility of multicriteria decision methods, with special attention to the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), in the assessment of the industrial heritage’s elements. The work analyzes the peculiarities ...

Traditional numerical schemes are frequently used in computing hydrodynamic models for simple problems. In general, the numerical results converge to the solution without significant errors. The particular case of a dam ...

The main contribution to the radiological impact from natural radiation received by general population is due to the emission of radon (222Rn). The main objective of the project is the study of radon gas as a radioactive ...