The business, administrative and social activity in real estate sector is highly affected by the existing risks in this sector. In the financial world, the rating agencies give the investors an important advantage: information ...

Nowadays, maintenance operations of the urban infrastructure in Spain are based on a "worst first" approach. Under this approach, pavements showing poor conditions are given higher priority to receive maintenance. In the ...

Deployable structures are used for temporary or moveable applications. Their high relationship between supported load and their mass, their modularity and their transportable characteristics allow their use in several ...

The generation of macrocells in concrete reinforcements is one of the main factors that strongly influences on the increase of corrosion rates in reinforced concrete structures. Therefore, it is fundamental to study these ...

The cost associated with the operation and maintenance of the infrastructures represents more than 90% of the life cycle costs, emphasizing that not only the availability of the infrastructures is a relevant aspect for the ...

When in Mexico, in the year 2000 finally change of powers in the federal Government, it starts with a support process in mortgage credits to the housing sector. This situation originates the vertical home building (departments ...

The construction price at the replacement or new value of the buildings in the Canary Islands differs greatly from the rest of Spain due to the existing insular singularities and due to its geographical, orographic, logistic, ...

In order to obtain quality housing, the statistical analysis of the incidents, which appear in the revision phase and once delivered, is important in order to determine improvements in the entire construction process. The ...

Construction projects usually suffer from delays and cost overruns. Poor planning and control practices, as well as the impact of (adverse) weather, are two of the most common causes for these delays and cost overruns. ...

The development of Chile in terms of population growth and urbanization during the last two decades has meant that many of drainage and evacuation of rains systems have become obsolete. Particularly, many of the cities of ...