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  • Circular economy and digital twins in the construction sector 

    Chumbiray Alonso, Ivan-Noel; Sahebzamani, Erisasadat; Lendinez, Francisco; Forcada Matheu, Núria (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2022)
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    Progress in digital and industrial technologies, shape all sectors of the economy and society. In the construction sector, digital building logbooks allow circularity by tracking the CO2 emissions and waste in construction ...
  • Why PERT & Gantt do not work in buildings projects? 

    Judez Muñoz, Pedro; Roca Ramon, Xavier; Forcada Matheu, Núria (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2022)
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    Process engineering applied to building projects has not developed its own methodology for project management, so it has been using generic project management tools, based on PERT and GANTT, under the paradigms Critical ...
  • Thermal comfort in nursing homes’ shared rooms 

    Forcada Matheu, Núria (Sultan Qaboos University, 2021)
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    Existing field studies confirm that elderly people have different thermal sensation from adults. This paper presents the results of a study conducted to 1204 nursing homes’ residents from Sanitas Mayores, using a thermal ...
  • Re-utilización de materiales domésticos al final de su vida útil como solución simple, sostenible y de bajo coste para la rehabilitación express de edificios antiguos y vulnerables: análisis térmico y acústico 

    Neri, Manuela; Pilotelli, Mariagrazia; Traversi, Marco; Levi, Elisa; Piana, Edoardo Alessio; Bannó, Mariasole; Pardo Bosch, Francesc; Cuerva Contreras, Eva; Guardo Zabaleta, Alfredo de Jesús; Pujadas Álvarez, Pablo (Universidad de Cantabria, 2022)
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    Este documento tiene como objetivo investigar la posibilidad de convertir materiales domésticos al final de su vida útil (EoLHM), como ropa o embalajes, en materiales aislantes térmicos y acústicos de bajo costo para la ...
  • Polyamide waste thermal and acoustic properties: experimental and numerical investigation on possible reuse for indoor comfort improvement 

    Neri, Manuela; Cuerva Contreras, Eva; Guardo Zabaleta, Alfredo de Jesús; Pujadas Álvarez, Pablo; Levi, Elisa; Sikula, Ondrej (2022)
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    Referring to the circular economy model, end-of-life household materials (EoLHM) such as packaging, and clothes, could be converted into building elements – for example panels - with thermal and acoustic properties. Given ...
  • Optimal ventilation strategies for balancing indoor air quality, comfort and energy use in educational buildings. The IAQ4EDU project. 

    Gaspar Fàbregas, Kàtia; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Ferré Bigorra, Jaume; Pujadas Álvarez, Pablo (European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3), 2022)
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    Currently, there is great concern about adequate indoor ventilation to prevent adverse effects on occupants’ health, and, within educational buildings, to ensure students and professors’ well-being and improve learning ...
  • Strain-monitoring of a concrete tunnel lining with distributed optical fiber sensors 

    Gómez i Esteve, Judit; Casas Rius, Joan Ramon; Villalba Herrero, Sergi (International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII), 2021)
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    Despite their advantageous performance and reliability, distributed optical fiber sensors (DOFS) still constitute a recent technology and their reliability and accuracy when applied to real world structures is still under ...
  • Perceptual maps to aggregate information from decision makers 

    Porro Martorell, Olga; Pardo Bosch, Francesc; Sánchez Soler, Monica; Agell, Núria (IOS Press, 2021)
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    Understanding different perceptions of human being when using linguistic terms is a crucial issue in human-machine interaction. In this paper, we propose the concept of perceptual maps to model human opinions in a group ...
  • BIM-based Augmented Reality for Facility Maintenance Management 

    Alavi, Hamidreza; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Fan, Su-ling; San, Wei (European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3), 2021)
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    More than 65% of the total cost in buildings comes from Facility Maintenance Management (FFM). Despite that, facility managers have still relied on the traditional method. Building Information Modeling (BIM) based on Augment ...
  • Soporte universitario al paso a docencia virtual debido a la COVID-19 y su seguimiento por parte del profesorado 

    Amante García, Beatriz; Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Canals Casals, Lluc; Tejedor Herrán, Blanca; Vallverdú Bayés, Sisco (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2021)
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    La virtualidad de las clases universitarias es una realidad imperativa desde el primer confinamiento provocado por la COVID-19. Cada universidad ha tenido un proceso de adaptación diferente y en grandes universidades con ...
  • Determination of the mixing layer height from regular lidar measurements in the Barcelona area 

    Sicard, Michaël; Pérez López, Carlos; Comerón Tejero, Adolfo; Baldasano Recio, José María; Rocadenbosch Burillo, Francisco (International Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2003)
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    Regular aerosol backscatter measurements using an elastic-backscatter lidar were performed between May 2000 and November 2002 in Barcelona (Spain), in the frame of EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network). The ...
  • Use of Grey-Box Modeling to Determine the Air Ventilation Flows in a Room 

    Macarulla Martí, Marcel; Casals Casanova, Miquel; Forcada Matheu, Núria; Gangolells Solanellas, Marta (Springer, 2021)
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    To determine the air ventilation flows in a room deterministic approaches based on the CO2 tracer-gas mass balance equation are usually used. Those equations do not enable to introduce to the system uncertainties such as ...

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