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    • Handover defects: comparison of construction and post-handover housing defects 

      Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel (2016-03)
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      Although inspections occur during construction or at handover, customers do not normally participate. This situation creates a gap between the quality perceived by both contractors and customers. An analysis of 52 552 ...

    • High-Capacity Cells and Batteries for Electric Vehicles 

      Canals Casals, Lluc; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Gómez-Nuñez, Alberto (2021-11-22)
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      The automotive sector is rapidly accelerating its transformation towards electric mobility, and electric vehicle (EV) sales have been increasing year after year since the beginning of the decade. Due to their overall ...

    • Human comfort modelling for elderly people by infrared thermography: Evaluating the thermoregulation system responses in an indoor environment during winter 

      Tejedor Herrán, Blanca; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Forcada Matheu, Núria (2020-12)
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      Elderly people are vulnerable to cold environments, due to aging’s impact on the density of nerve fibers. Nevertheless, automatic controls of HVAC systems do not consider the user’s real-time thermal sensation and most of ...

    • 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 ...

    • Implementation of predictive control in a commercial building energy management system using neural networks 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta (2017-09-15)
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      Most existing commercial building energy management systems (BEMS) are reactive rule-based. This means that an action is produced when an event occurs. In consequence, these systems cannot predict future scenarios 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 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 ...

    • Lessons learned in building a middleware for smart grids 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Albano, Michele; Ferreira, Luis Lino; Teixeira, César (River Publishers, 2016-01)
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      Smart grids play an important role in the modernization and optimization of the existing electrical grid, to accomplish the current European Union Energy and Climate targets. Smart grids require distributed applications ...

    • Life Cycle Analysis of a Game-Based Solution for Domestic Energy Saving 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel (2020-08-19)
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      ICT-based solutions are seen to be almost totally environmentally friendly, but game-based solutions for energy saving have not been explored yet. This paper describes a comprehensive analysis and an in-depth interpretation ...

    • Life-cycle environmental and cost-effective energy retrofitting solutions for office stock 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Gaspar Fàbregas, Kàtia; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Ferré Bigorra, Jaume; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel (Elsevier, 2020-10-01)
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      The European Green Deal establishes the need to renovate buildings in an energy efficient way, to address climate and environmental challenges. The purpose of this study was to devise a model for identifying environmental, ...

    • Material multimèdia per a l'aprenentatge autònom en l'àmbit de la construcció 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2012-06-29)
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    • Modelling indoor air carbon dioxide concentration using grey-box models 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Carnevali, Matteo; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta (2017-05)
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      Predictive control is the strategy that has the greatest reported benefits when it is implemented in a building energy management system. Predictive control requires low-order models to assess different scenarios and ...

    • Modelling indoor air quality in schools using grey box models 

      Tugores Garcias, Juan; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel (European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3), 2023)
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      Current indoor air quality strategies are based on the measurement and control of carbon dioxide (CO2) indoor concentration. Most educational buildings rely only on natural ventilation, making indoor air quality highly ...

    • Office representatives for cost-optimal energy retrofitting analysis: a novel approach using cluster analysis of energy performance certificate databases 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Ferré Bigorra, Jaume; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Gaspar Fàbregas, Kàtia; Tejedor Herrán, Blanca (2020-01-01)
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      A large number of buildings must be evaluated to formulate energy retrofitting policies for existing building stock. In this context, it is crucial to identify reference buildings that can effectively represent the entire ...

    • Paradoxes Between Energy Labeling and Efficiency in Buildings 

      Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Canals Casals, Lluc (Springer, 2021)
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      Buildings are responsible for 40% of the energy consumption and around 36% of CO2 emissions in the European Union. Administrations are funding projects enhancing energy efficiency to achieve a zero-emission building. As a ...

    • 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 ...

    • Predicting on-site environmental impacts of municipal engineering works 

      Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Macarulla Martí, Marcel (2014-01)
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      The research findings fill a gap in the body of knowledge by presenting an effective way to evaluate the significance of on-site environmental impacts of municipal engineering works prior to the construction stage. First, ...

    • 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, ...

    • 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)
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      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, ...

    • 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 ...