Exploració per autor "Fuertes Casals, Alba"

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    • Effective building modelling for energy performance contracting 

      Giretti, Alberto; Lemma, Massimo; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Jones, Rory (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2018)
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      Energy Performance Contracts (EPC) are contractual agreements between beneficiaries and energy service providers, where budgets are established in relation to a determined level of energy performance. Hence, the problem ...

    • Estimación del consumo de energía primaria y de las emisiones de CO2 de los edificios de viviendas de una ciudad de tamaño medio 

      Fuertes Casals, Alba; Hernández Sánchez, Juan Manuel; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Domènech Mas, Josep Maria; García-Almiñana, Daniel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Vilella, Quirze; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Forcada Matheu, Núria (2010)
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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)
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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 ...

    • 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)
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      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 ...

    • Knowledge management perceptions in construction and design companies 

      Forcada Matheu, Núria; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Macarulla Martí, Marcel (2013-01-01)
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      Knowledge management (KM) has been studied extensively in recent years. Some consider knowledge to be the most strategically important resource for any company, but the fragmented, project-based and task-oriented nature ...

    • 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)
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      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)
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      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 ...

    • 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)
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      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 ...

    • 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, Xavier; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Amante García, Beatriz; García-Almiñana, Daniel; Gassó Domingo, Santiago; Hernández, Juan Manuel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2009-03-25)
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      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 ...

    • Reduced-order modeling for energy performance contracting 

      Giretti, Alberto; Vaccarini, M.; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Jones, Rory (2018-05-15)
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      Buildings subject to Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) are usually quite complex public buildings, sometimes relatively old and usually barely documented from the technical standpoint. Gathering comprehensive and reliable ...

    • Results and insight gained from applying the EnergyCat energy-saving serious game in UK social housing 

      Hafner, Rebecca J.; Fuertes Casals, Alba; Pahl, Sabine; Boomsma, Christine; Jones, Rory V.; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta (Serious Games Society, 2020-06)
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      Concerns about climate change associated with the combustion of fossil fuels urge a call for widespread reductions in household energy use. Determining means of achieving this is a key challenge faced by environmental ...

    • 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)
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      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 ...