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Assessment of residential defects at post-handover
(American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2013-04)
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In Spain, the Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación (Building Regulation Act) has established compulsory warranties to ensure that
buildings meet basic requirements with regard to functionality, general safety and structure, ...
Influence of building type on post-handover defects in housing
(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 ...
Model for enhancing integrated identification, assessment, and operational control of on-site environmental impacts and health and safety risks in construction firms
(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 ...
Product-specific life cycle assessment of recycled gypsum as a replacement for natural gypsum in ordinary Portland cement: application to the Spanish context
(2016-03-20)
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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 ...
Standardizing housing defects: classification, validation and benefits
(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 ...
Analysis of the implementation of effective waste management practices in construction projects and sites
(2014-12)
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In this paper, the implementation of effective waste management practices in construction projects and sites is analyzed, using data from a survey answered by 74 Spanish construction companies based in Catalonia. Most ...
Knowledge management perceptions in construction and design companies
(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 ...
Post-handover housing defects: sources and origins
(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.
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Ley reguladora de la subcontratación en el Sector de la Construcción
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Factors affecting rework costs in construction
(2017-08)
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Rework adversely impacts the performance of building projects. In this study, data were analyzed from 788 construction incidents in 40 Spanish building projects to determine the influence of project and managerial ...
Adoption of web databases for document management in SMEs of the construction sector in Spain
(2007-07)
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This paper presents a web-based tool designed to improve internal and external document management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector. For each ...