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 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 ...

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 ...

This study has the aim to analyze, from numerical analysis in finite elements, the behavior of masonry walls of bricks and closing blocks together with structural elements of reinforced concrete, in situations in which ...

This study seeks to verify the influence of windows areas in the electrical energy consumption of dwellings in the city of São Carlos. In order to do this, the index WWR (window to wall ratio) was applied, representing the ...

One of the main differences in the structures composed of prefabricated elements of the conventional structures (cast in situ) refers to the way of how structural elements are connected together. The operation of such links ...