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 ...

Despite the increasing efforts made by the construction sector to reduce the environmental impact of their processes, construction sites are still a major source of pollution and adverse impacts on the environment. This ...

Researchers often have to go to multiple information sources in order to identify high-quality, time-critical information. Due to the dynamic and unstructured nature of research results, they are faced with such problems ...

Este libro ha sido escrito y editado para los estudios de 2º ciclo de Ingenieria de Organización Industrial que se imparten en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieria Industrial de Terrassa de la Universidad Politécnica ...

The main aim of this paper is to know how household and dwelling related independent variables affect dependent variables: energy consumption and expenditure on energy. It is also an aim to know how energy prices and income ...

En general, los materiales compuestos (MC) poseen la gran ventaja de tener una muy baja densidad con unas muy buenas propiedades mecánicas, permitiendo el diseño de elementos constructivos muy ligeros y una construcción ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...