The identification and resolution of interfaces is a requirement that must be met for additional methods for evaluating design for Hydraulic and Sanitary Building Services (plumbing systems). The reason is that these ...

This work aims to investigate the influence of solar chimneys in the natural ventilation in buildings located in Brazil. Considering that Brazil is a tropical country and has a great potential for the harnessing of solar ...

This paper aims to propose guidelines for the design process of hospital buildings. To achieve this objective, literature review and case studies were conducted in three architectural firms specializing in projects for ...

In face of the needs to improve tools that increase productivity in project design, coupled with technical reliability, it was developed a free computer application that performs the equations and details the longitudinal ...

In this paper, a free analysis program is presented for the verification of ultimate and serviceability limit states of reinforced or prestressed concrete sections with polygonal shape submitted to axial forces and biaxial ...

The construction industry often related to high handwork production processes, which results in waste of physical and financial resources. The current great demand for new buildings leads to the need of industrialized ...

Despite the great use in most developed countries, the composite structures have been little exploited in Brazil, including rare records the use of composite columns of steel and concrete partially coated in industrial ...

The international airports has been committed globally with the adoption and management of environmental sustainability practices, encouraged not only by the requirement contained in local laws, but also on the instructions ...

In the context of the construction industry today, it is noted that there are a lot of accidents at work, making it thus very dangerous. In order to minimize the consequences of these accidents occurred and the quantities ...

Currently there are companies in the construction sector which are incorporating lean construction concepts as a strategy in order to improve their production system. However, this transformation process presents several ...