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A sustainability-based model for dealing with the uncertainties of post-disaster temporary housing

Hosseini, S.M. Amin; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (2019-03-21)
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Open Access

In the aftermath of natural disasters, temporary housing (TH) needs to be provided for displaced people to mitigate human suffering. In the numerous cases in which a chosen TH strategy is unsuitable for the case-specific ...

Novel architectural strategies to support an nZEB Mediterranean school

Crespo Sánchez, Eva; Dacosta Díaz, Joan Ramon; Kampouropoulos, Konstantinos (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2019-09-01)
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Open Access

The Educational Department of Catalan Government has designed a new public school located at the center of Catalonia, in the town of Solsona. For this new construction model, they have set a main goal to minimize the energy ...

Feasibility assessment of rooftop greenhouses in Latin America. The case study of a social neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador

Nadal, Ana; Rodríguez Cadena, Daniel; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Cuerva Contreras, Eva; Josa Garcia-Tornel, Alejandro; Rieradevall Pons, Joan (2019-08)
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Today, food security has a critical place in the government agendas of developing countries. In Latin American case, urban contexts have been subject to radical transformations in the last decades, most apparently through ...

Urban agriculture in the framework of sustainable urbanism

Nadal, Ana; Cerón Palma, Ileana; Cuerva Contreras, Eva; Gabarrell Durany, Xavier; Josa Garcia-Tornel, Alejandro; Rieradevall Pons, Joan; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Sanyé-Mengual, Esther (2015)
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Agriculture represents a crucial phase in the development of mankind. Although cities initially had close ties withagriculture, which was a key element in ancient civilisations, in modern twentieth-century urban plans, ...

Multi-criteria decision-making model to assess the sustainability of girders and trusses: case study for roofs of sports halls

Josa i Culleré, Irene; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la; Aguado de Cea, Antonio (2020-03)
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The first, and probably the most determining, decision that structural designing teams need to make when facing the design of any infrastructure is the choice of both an appropriate material and the suitable structural ...

Integrated value model to assess the sustainability of active learning activities and strategies in architecture lectures for large groups

Pons Valladares, Oriol; Franquesa Sànchez, Jordi; Hosseini, S.M. Amin (2019-05-22)
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Open Access

At present, university professors lack the tools to know which is the most sustainable activity and/or strategy that should be incorporated into large-group theoretical classes in order to improve our students’ learning ...

Sustainability of column-supported RC slabs: fiber reinforcement as an alternative

Fuente Antequera, Albert de la; Casanovas Rubio, Maria del Mar; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Armengou, Jaume (2019-07)
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Open Access

Fiber-reinforced concrete has been used in structures without any additional reinforcement when the design is determined by transient load stages (precast segments for tunnels), in elements with favorable boundary conditions, ...

Sustainable building technologies for post-disaster temporary housing: integrated sustainability assessment and life cycle assessment

Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Amin; Pons Valladares, Oriol; Fuente Antequera, Albert de la (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), 2019-04)
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Open Access

After natural disasters, displaced people (DP) require important numbers of housing units, which have to be erected quickly due to emergency pressures. These tight timeframes can cause the multiplication of the environmental ...

Building “with the systems” vs. building “in the system” of IMS open technology of prefabricated construction: challenges for new “infill” industry for massive housing retrofitting

Nikolic, Jelena (2018-01-01)
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Open Access

Post-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade and its special form of integrated prefabrication has been analyzed with a strong interest in transformation capacity of industrialized building model (IBM) ...

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