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COVID-19 lockdown effects on air quality by NO2 in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid (Spain)
(Elsevier, 2020-11-01)
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Open AccessDuring the months of March and April 2020 we witnessed the largest-scale experiment in history in terms of air quality in cities. Any prediction of this experiment's results may be obvious to science, as it was totally ... -
Life-cycle environmental and cost-effective energy retrofitting solutions for office stock
(Elsevier, 2020-10-01)
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Open AccessThe European Green Deal establishes the need to renovate buildings in an energy efficient way, to address climate and environmental challenges. The purpose of this study was to devise a model for identifying environmental, ... -
Mechanical connectors to enhance the interfacial debonding of concrete overlays
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-06)
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Open AccessConcrete bonded whitetoppings and overlays usually fail due to a loss of bond between the layers as a consequence of direct actions (traffic loads) or indirect actions (temperature differences or shrinkage in the layers). ... -
Economic analysis of the disassembling activities to the reuse of electric vehicles Li-ion batteries
(2020-02-19)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyElectric vehicles (EVs) are massively entering the mobility services. However, the high costs of their batteries, and thus of the vehicles, represent a real barrier that refrain consumers from buying EVs. In order to ... -
Structural health monitoring with distributed optical fiber sensors of tunnel lining affected by nearby construction activity
(2020-09)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper addresses the implementation of a Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor system (DOFS) to the TMB L-9 metro tunnel in Barcelona for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) purposes as the former could potentially be affected ... -
Water management in the media and research: Dissemination in catalonia and its capture by private companies
(2020-05-12)
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Open AccessAs a vital resource for human well-being, drinking water is considered a public good worldwide. However, big companies are sometimes in charge of its management leading to an interested distribution of benefits. One of the ... -
Quantifying energy symbiosis of building-integrated agriculture in a mediterranean rooftop greenhouse
(2020-08)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyA major concern for sustainable development is urban systems energy consumption. A possible way to gain additional whole system energy efficiencies is to integrate rooftop greenhouses (iRTG) on unoccupied roofs. This work ... -
Comparison of methodologies for assessing desert dust contribution to regional PM10 and PM2.5 levels: a one-year study over Portugal
(2020-02)
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Open AccessDesert dust outbreaks may affect air quality. This study estimates the importance of African dust contribution to the PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations observed in rural regional background sites in Portugal. Desert dust ... -
A probabilistic performance evaluation for buildings and constructed assets
(2019-12)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe conservation state of buildings is of increasing interest due to the need to renovate aging building stock and provide a safe and healthy place for end users. Numerous uncertain factors have an impact on building ... -
Evaluation of the end-of-life of electric vehicle batteries according to the state-of-health
(2019-12-01)
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Open AccessAs a result of monitoring thousands of electric vehicle charges around Europe, this study builds statistical distributions that model the amount of energy necessary for trips between charges, showing that most of trips are ... -
Feasibility assessment of rooftop greenhouses in Latin America. The case study of a social neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador
(2019-08)
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Open AccessToday, 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
(2015)
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Open AccessAgriculture 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, ...
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