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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, ... -
Sustainable business model archetypes for the electric vehicle battery second use industry: towards a conceptual framework
(2020-05)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper explores sustainable business models (SBMs) evolution for the rapidly developing battery second use (B2U) market within the emerging electric vehicle (EV) industry. Previous work identified that SBMs and EV B2U ... -
LCA study of a new electrochemical and ultraviolet (EC-UV) combined system to decolourise and reuse textile saline effluents: Environmental evaluation and proposal to improve the production process
(Elsevier, 2019-12)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyIn this work, the environmental performance of the reactive Jet dyeing process and the subsequent wastewater treatment currently carried out in the textile companies is compared with a new system. The developed system ... -
Recovering industrial heritage: restoration of the wine cellar cooperative in Falset (Catalonia, Spain)
(2019-12-11)
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Open AccessAwareness regarding conservation of industrial heritage is recent. Several policies have been adopted to start protecting these buildings because of their historic, artistic and scientific values. Wine cellars are an ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of gamification in reducing domestic energy consumption: lessons learned from the EnerGAware project
(2020-03-01)
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Open AccessThe application of gamification to encourage energy conservation behaviour in house occupants is an emerging field of research. However, empirical evidence of its effectiveness is lacking. This paper presents lessons learnt ... -
Study of Facility Management implementation in Spain
(2019)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe Facility Management (FM) is a management discipline that has involved a change of philosophy in companies since its inception in the 80s. The objective of the study is to analyze the implementation of FM in Spain and ... -
Water network renewal strategy: a case study of Aigües de Barcelona
(2019-06)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper presents a consistent and transparent methodology for the prioritisation of the pipeline sections to be renewed in the whole Aigües de Barcelona (AB) urban water network. The prioritisation index for pipeline ... -
Office representatives for cost-optimal energy retrofitting analysis: a novel approach using cluster analysis of energy performance certificate databases
(2020-01-01)
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Open AccessA large number of buildings must be evaluated to formulate energy retrofitting policies for existing building stock. In this context, it is crucial to identify reference buildings that can effectively represent the entire ... -
Energy benchmarking of existing office stock in Spain: trends and drivers
(2019-11-12)
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Open AccessBuildings play a central role in the clean energy transition, which is why it is vital to understand how energy is consumed in this sector. Energy performance certificate databases are considered a key source of information ... -
Applying nutrient dynamics to adjust the nutrient-water balance in hydroponic crops. A case study with open hydroponic tomato crops from Barcelona
(2020-02-05)
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Open AccessBackground:Global food production systems generate impacts such as eutrophication, caused by nutrient run-offfrom agricultural exploitations and exacerbated by climate change. Hydroponic cultivation methods arecommon in ... -
The effects of lithium sulfur battery ageing on second-life possibilities and environmental life cycle assessment studies
(2019-01-01)
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Open AccessThe development of Li-ion batteries has enabled the re-entry of electric vehicles into the market. As car manufacturers strive to reach higher practical specific energies (550 Wh/kg) than what is achievable for Li-ion ... -
Shear crack pattern identification in concrete elements via distributed optical fibre grid
(2019-12)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyAn experimental methodology to obtain the shear cracking pattern in concrete elements is presented. The method is based on the use of Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors (DOFS) connected to an Optical Backscattered Reflectometer ...
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