Nowadays, daily changes are taking place, a product of the technological era, which offers every day a tangle of information and which increasingly value the consumption, the enjoyment of many of the goods produced, in the ...

The construction industry in Brazil has great importance both socially and economically, but generates more than 50% of municipal solid waste and consuming large quantities of raw materials, energy and water. Thus the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Given the importance of forecasting costs in early stages of architectural projects, when it is possible to make changes in the product design and therefore obtain changes in the production costs, and also due to the ...

Brazil is the world's largest producer of sugarcane and the leading exporter of its derivatives (sugar, alcohol, energy etc.). One of the main waste generated in the manufacturing process of this sector is the sugarcane ...

The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of the rigidity of the beam-tocolumn connections as well as the transference of forces among the structural components in steel-concrete composite structures. to do ...

In the context of the plumbing systems, the design stage may be responsable for considerable parcel of pathological manifestations that may occur after the building occupation. These problems can bring negative impact for ...

The use of prefabricated elements has become increasing in Brazil, This paper describes the study and the procedures for construction and erection of a building system works on a pavement. Within the concept of technological ...

To avoid the maintenance, in other words, to look for forms of avoiding the flaws and not of correcting them. This concept summarizes the current scenery of the function maintenance. It is known that the maintenance ...