Browsing by Author "Gámez García, Diana C."
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A comparative study of indoor pavements waste generation during construction through simulation tool
(2016-06-01)
Article
Restricted access - author's decisionThe construction sector affects the environment through CO2 emissions generated by the use of massive quantities of materials, energy, and wastes during the construction and demolition processes. Moreover, current technology ... -
A cradle to handover life cycle assessment of external walls: choice of materials and prognosis of elements
(2018-08-03)
Article
Open AccessThis research focuses on a comparison of 20 external wall systems that are conventionally used in Spanish residential buildings, from a perspective based on the product and construction process stages of the life cycle ... -
Análisis comparativo de los impactos ambientales en sistemas de cerramientos de vivienda mediante el Análisis del Ciclo de Vida
(2015)
Conference report
Open AccessEl sector de la construcción se encuentra en un proceso de mejora al respecto de la protección medioambiental, por lo cual se han desarrollado metodologías que permiten evaluar sus implicaciones en el desarrollo sostenible; ... -
Análisis del ciclo de vida en la construcción: evaluación de las etapas incorporadas de elementos de la vivienda y de su entorno urbano
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-05-29)
Doctoral thesis
Open AccessThe construction sector has the potential to contribute to the achievement of essential objectives of sustainable development, such as the fight against climate change, the defense of the environment or the design of cities. ... -
Comparative by simulating the eventual waste generation of building indoor pavements construction
(2016)
Conference report
Open AccessThe construction sector affects the environment through CO2 emissions generated by use of massive quantities of materials, energy, and waste during the construction and demolition process. Moreover, current technology ... -
Comportamiento elástico del concreto con agregado reciclado
(Universidad de Alicante, 2012)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyCon el fin de participar activamente en la sustentabilidad de la industria de la construcción, se ha propuesto mejorar la durabilidad de las estructuras de concreto y el reemplazo parcial o total de sus componentes por ... -
“Cradle-to-gate" approach for the skin of a building
(2016)
Conference lecture
Open AccessThe construction industry is facing great challenges: reducing the levels of pollution, high consumption of energy and natural resources, solid waste generation and emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The life-cycle ... -
Durability parameters of reinforced recycled aggregate concrete: Case study
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-02-13)
Article
Open AccessRecycled concrete aggregate (RA) from pavement demolition was used to make concrete. Ten concrete mixtures with different replacement percentages of RA (coarse and fine) were made. The corrosion rate of steel and the ... -
Environmental challenges in the residential sector: life cycle assessment of Mexican social housing
(2019-07-23)
Article
Open AccessSocial Housing (SH) in Mexico has a potentially important role in reducing both the emission of greenhouse gases and the use of non-renewable resources, two of the main challenges facing not only Mexico but the planet as ... -
Estudio de factibilidad y caracterización de áridos para hormigón estructural
(Universidad del Norte, 2017-07-01)
Article
Restricted access - publisher's policyEl hormigón es un material fundamental en la construcción civil, arquitectónica y de edificios; sin embargo, su producción convencional no corresponde a un desarrollo sostenible. En la actualidad, el prescindir de su uso ... -
Evaluación del impacto ambiental de dos envolventes de edificios educativos mediante análisis de ciclo de vida
(Academia Journals, 2018)
Conference report
Restricted access - author's decisionEl Análisis de Ciclo de Vida (ACV), es un proceso para evaluar las cargas ambientales asociadas a un producto, proceso o actividad, identificando y cuantificando el uso de materia y energía así como los residuos generados. ... -
Evaluation of waste as a comparative criterion for building materials
(Universidad del Pais Vasco, 2012)
Conference lecture
Open AccessIn this paper, it analyzes and compares the use of three different materials (Reinforced Concrete -R. C.-, Steel and Wood) usable for the building, and construction processes that this entails. The analysis aimed to ... -
Housing indicators for sustainable cities in middle-income countries through the residential urban environment recognized using single-family housing rating systems
(2019-08-01)
Article
Open AccessThis study presents a comparative analysis of the housing indicators used by the single-family housing rating systems (SHRSs), in which the residential urban environment (RUE) influences buildings’ certification scores, ... -
LCA as comparative tool for concrete columns and glulam columns
(2015-06-01)
Article
Open AccessNowadays, in the construction sector, some methods are being investigated to detect and minimize their environmental impact. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool that allows the evaluation of the environmental burden ... -
Liberando a los cuestionarios de Moodle de los ordenadores
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2012-06)
Conference lecture
Open AccessEl uso de cuestionarios Moodle ha demostrado su eficacia como sistema de evaluación y autoaprendizaje en la docencia; sin embargo, su aplicación se restringe por la necesidad de emplear un ordenador por usuario limitándose ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of residential streets from the perspective of favoring the human scale and reducing motorized traffic flow. From cradle to handover approach
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)
Article
Open AccessCurrently, few studies have compared the variations in environmental impact throughout the different stages of the life cycle of urban construction elements; and of these, only a minority approach it from the perspective ... -
Strength and durability parameters of an environmentally friendly concrete
(American Concrete Institute (ACI), 2012)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyDue to the significant environmental impact that the concrete production causes, and as a contribution to sustainability of this industry; presently sorne of the concrete constituents are replaced with alternative recycled ... -
Sustainable social housing: the comparison of the mexican funding program for housing solutions and building sustainability rating systems
(2018-04-01)
Article
Restricted access - author's decisionIn the last decade, Mexico has been prominent among the Upper-middle-income countries (UMC) due to the application of its Funding Program for Housing Solutions (FPHS) in dealing with social housing. This paper shows the ...
