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    • Identifying potential environmental impacts at the pre-construction stage 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Fuertes Casals, Alba (2009)
      Comunicació de congrés
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      This paper introduces a systematic approach for dealing with potential adverse environmental impacts at the pre-construction stage. The proposed methodology serves as an assessment tool for construction projects to measure ...

    • Identifying potential health and safety risks at the pre-construction stage 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Vilella, Quirze (2010)
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      Previous researches have demonstrated that decisions made during the pre-construction stage have a big influence on the construction worker safety. This paper introduces a systematic approach for dealing with health and ...

    • Inauguració del curs acadèmic a l'EPSEVG 2020-2021 

      Roca Ramon, Xavier (2020-10-15)
      Audiovisual
      Accés obert
      Dijous 15 d'octubre de 2020, a les 12.30 h., la Sala d'Actes de l'EPSEVG va acollir l’Acte d’Inauguració del Curs Acadèmic 2020-21. El professor Frederic Vilà, director de l'EPSEVG, va presentar la memòria del curs anterior, ...

    • Influence of building type on post-handover defects in housing 

      Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Roca Ramon, Xavier (2012-08)
      Article
      Accés obert
      Clients’ lack of involvement in defining quality requirements for dwellings built by developers leads to a perception of poor quality at the time of purchase. The research presented in this paper aims to broaden previous ...

    • Knowledge management and e-learning for underground construction projects 

      Fuertes Casals, Alba; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Ballester, Francisco; Diego, Ruben; De la Horra, Jose Manuel (Springer, 2010)
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      This paper describes a Knowledge management system (SGAC - Active Knowledge Management System) to manage the knowledge generated in a research project. This system aims both at organizing project information during the ...

    • Mitigating construction safety risks using prevention through design 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Fuertes Casals, Alba (2010-04)
      Article
      Accés obert
      Introduction: Research and practice have demonstrated that decisions made prior to work at construction sites can influence construction worker safety. However, it has also been argued that most architects and design ...

    • Model for enhancing integrated identification, assessment, and operational control of on-site environmental impacts and health and safety risks in construction firms 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Roca Ramon, Xavier (2013-02)
      Article
      Accés obert
      Certifiable management-system standards apply similar management techniques and principles, but each system still tends to have a separate structure in construction companies. Research and practice have demonstrated that ...

    • Multi-criteria decision analysis to assess the environmental and economic performance of using recycled gypsum cement and recycled aggregate to produce concrete: the case of Catalonia (Spain) 

      Suárez, Sindy; Calderón Valdiviezo, Lucrecia Janneth; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; Roca Ramon, Xavier (2018-06-01)
      Article
      Accés obert
      The production of virgin raw materials used in construction and the generation of construction and demolition waste (CDW) are key environmental issues in the construction industry. Portland cement and concrete are used ...

    • Multicriteria analysis of the environmental and economic performance of circularity strategies for concrete waste recycling in Spain 

      López Ruiz, Luis Alberto; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Lara Mercedes, Claribel Melissa; Gassó Domingo, Santiago (2022-05-01)
      Article
      Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
      Construction and demolition waste (CDW) is identified by multiple circular economy (CE) policies as a key sector for implementing circularity strategies due to the high volume of waste produced and the large consumption ...

    • Post-handover housing defects: sources and origins 

      Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Roca Ramon, Xavier (2013-12-01)
      Article
      Accés obert
      In Spain, the high levels of inexperienced workers and the long chains of subcontracting contribute to the poor quality of dwellings. Althoughthe Ley reguladora de la subcontratación en el Sector de la Construcción (s ...

    • Product-specific life cycle assessment of recycled gypsum as a replacement for natural gypsum in ordinary Portland cement: application to the Spanish context 

      Suárez, Sindy; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Gassó Domingo, Santiago (2016-03-20)
      Article
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      The construction industry consumes large quantities of natural resources and simultaneously generates a considerable amount of construction and demolition waste (CDW). This includes gypsum waste (GW), which must be managed ...

    • Project of the academic performance improvement 

      Amante García, Beatriz; Sánchez Romero, Montserrat; Sunyer, Marta; Vela Torres, Patricia; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Macanás de Benito, Jorge; Amer Ramon, Rafael; Haro Cases, Jaume; Hernández Abad, Francisco; Cañadas Lorenzo, Juan Carlos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-09)
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      The transition of students from high school to university is a changing and complicated stage. It is during the initial phase when most drop-outs from engineering degrees occur. There are several reasons for this, however, ...

    • Proposta metodològica per afavorir el treball en equip en assignatures semipresencials que comporten la realització de projectes d’enginyeria amb un alt contingut de disseny 

      Forcada Matheu, Núria; Casals, Miquel; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Amante García, Beatriz; García-Almiñana, Daniel; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; Juan Manuel, Hernández (2009-02-12T13:19:20Z)
      Comunicació de congrés / Text en actes de congrés
      Accés obert
      Aquest projecte ha tingut com a finalitat principal impulsar un aprenentatge més efectiu dels alumnes en assignatures que, impartides en una modalitat semipresencial, comporten la realització d’un treball de curs amb un ...

    • Proyecto de mejora del rendimiento académico. Fase Inicial : primer curso del Grado de Ingeniería de la ESEIAAT 

      Roca Ramon, Xavier; Sánchez Romero, Montserrat; Amante García, Beatriz; Garin Seijo, Marta; Amador Pla, Fernando; Cortés Izquierdo, María Pilar; Cañadas Lorenzo, Juan Carlos; Haro Cases, Jaume; Amer Ramon, Rafael; Hernández Abad, Francisco; Macarulla Martí, Marcel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2021-05)
      Article
      Accés obert
      La transición del alumnado del instituto a la universidad es compleja y costosa. Durante las fases iniciales es donde se producen la mayor parte de los abandonos en las titulaciones de ingeniería. Los motivos son varios, ...

    • Quantitative internal infrared thermography for determining in-situ thermal behaviour of façades 

      Tejedor Herrán, Blanca; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Roca Ramon, Xavier (2017-09-15)
      Article
      Accés obert
      The thermal behaviour of a building is often underestimated or neglected during its construction and operation stages. In recent years, the heat flux meter (HFM) method has been commonly used to determine the U-value, a ...

    • Standardizing housing defects: classification, validation and benefits 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Roca Ramon, Xavier (2013-08)
      Article
      Accés restringit per política de l'editorial
      Defects produce economic and temporal deviations in construction projects. Although learning from past experiences can help reduce defects and their consequences, usually data is not easily available, or is poorly structured ...

    • Tecnología energética y medio ambiente I 

      Calventus Solé, Yolanda; Carreras Planells, Ramón; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Colomer Vilanova, Pere; Costa Pérez, Miquel; Jaen González, Antonio; Montserrat Ribas, Salvador; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Quera Miró, Manuel; Roca Ramon, Xavier (Edicions UPC, 2006)
      Llibre
      Accés restringit als usuaris de la UB, UAB, UPC, UPF, UdG, UdL, URV, UOC, BC, UVic, UJI, URL, UIC
      El objetivo general de esta publicación es ofrecer una visión amplia de las fuentes, las transformaciones y las aplicaciones tecnológicas de la energía. En cuanto al medio ambiente, se centra en el conocimiento de los ...

    • Tecnología energética y medio ambiente II 

      Calventus Solé, Yolanda; Carreras Planells, Ramón; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Colomer Vilanova, Pere; Costa Pérez, Miquel; Jaen, A; Montserrat Ribas, Salvador; Oliva Llena, Asensio; Quera Miró, Manuel; Roca Ramon, Xavier (Edicions UPC, 2006)
      Llibre
      Accés restringit als usuaris de la UB, UAB, UPC, UPF, UdG, UdL, URV, UOC, BC, UVic, UJI, URL, UIC
      El objetivo general de esta publicación es ofrecer una visión amplia de las fuentes, las transformaciones y las aplicaciones tecnológicas de la energía. En cuanto al medio ambiente, se centra en el conocimiento de los ...

    • Why PERT & Gantt do not work in buildings projects? 

      Judez Muñoz, Pedro; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Forcada Matheu, Núria (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2022)
      Text en actes de congrés
      Accés obert
      Process engineering applied to building projects has not developed its own methodology for project management, so it has been using generic project management tools, based on PERT and GANTT, under the paradigms Critical ...