One of the main challenges in assisting displaced persons who have lost their homes as a result of a natural hazard is the provision of adequate post-disaster accommodations, such as temporary housing. Although the need ...

At present there are numerous alternatives for practical-professional learning at the university. Choosing the best set of activities for a specific course is a crucial multi-criteria complex problem, which depends on ...

As one of the main and largest components, facades make a determining contribution to the sustainability performance of the whole building. Thus, selecting the optimal wall system is a key challenge for designers, especially ...

Mainly, this thesis studies kindergarten and elementary centers built almost entirely out of prefabricated pieces between the years 1970 and 2006. More concretely, the author limited his study to schools built in Catalonia, ...

Temporary housing units (THUs), as a solution for accommodating displaced population (DP) in the aftermath of disasters, are critical in terms of the three main sustainability pillars: economic, environmental, and social. ...

Rooftop-farming technologies can transform unexploited roofs into agricultural areas; and though studies have quantified the sustainability of diverse rooftop-farm systems, researchers lack a direct comparison between these ...

Rooftop farms can improve a building's thermal and energy performance, especially for uninsulated free-running buildings. The non-refurbished educational building stock lacks indoor comfort related to temperature and high ...

This article presents a Project for Teaching Innovation (PTI) for the improvement of teaching practices in the Construction 1 course at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB). Since the 1980s this ...