Salvati, Agnese (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
The era we are living calls us to face the environmental and urban issues. As the main source of greenhouse emissions and energy consumption, cities are as well the most vulnerable places as for the ...
Cabello Matud, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-06-30)
Providing its place for installation systems is clearly one of the overall principies that define the building-technology uniting, and this is only possible to be made from a global and initial approach ...
Zolfaghari, Seyyed Mohammadreza (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
The construction of mass housings (MHs) solved high demands for housing in urban areas in the 1960s and 1970s worldwide. After decades of continuous use and inadequate maintenance, these MHs have been ...
Espinoza Cateriano, Edgard Eduardo (Date of defense: 2022-09-05)
The research focuses on how to illuminate low light intensity spaces. Different uses of those spaces serve as the start point for rethinking lighting design. The characteristics of light, surface and ...
Torres Quezada, Jefferson Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-11-07)
The central scope of this thesis is the architectonic element THE ROOF within the context of regions with warm and humid climates near the equator. The constant population growth in the world has been ...
Zaker Hosein, Mohammed Reza (Date of defense: 2019-11-06)
We are at a stage where Building Information Modelling (BIM) has reached a maturity level to be widely adopted by the professionals and organizations within the Architectural, Engineering and Construction ...
León Vázquez, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-02-07)
The solar chimney is a climatic conditioning passive system. This can generate air movements in a room by means of solar radiation. These air movements can amplify the comfort zone increasing human ...
Arias Holguín-Veras, Paloma Magdalena (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
This doctoral thesis delves into the knowledge of Venetian glass known as smalti, a unique material with a long history whose main application has been as a tesserae of mosaic cladding. During the ...
Santana, Bruno Oliveira (Date of defense: 2021-11-23)
This thesis analyzes the wall’s thermal performance of learning spaces and its impact on cooling demand. Three classrooms are selected as case studies, each located on a different university campus in ...
Masoud, Badia Ghassan (Date of defense: 2021-11-03)
The ancient cities of hot arid climates, founded and grew linked to pedestrian mobility, followed a preferably compact growth pattern until the beginning of the 20th century. The resulting urban form ...
69 - Building (construction) trade. Building materials. Building practice and procedure (45)
71 - Physical planning. Regional, town and country planning. Landscapes, parks, gardens (9)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (5)