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Rodríguez Rodríguez, Lizeth (Date of defense: 2024-06-18)
(English) This research focuses on the study and comparative analysis of buildings constructed with industrialized prefabrication systems, based on the premise that industrialization implies resource optimization, technological ...
Valencia Barba, Yovanna Elena (Date of defense: 2023-07-19)
(English) The growth and development of the construction sector has significant potential for sustainable development strategies, since it consumes considerable amounts of resources, materials and energy worldwide and is ...
Gámez García, Diana Carolina (Date of defense: 2020-05-29)
The construction sector has the potential to contribute to the achievement of essential objectives of sustainable development, such as the fight against climate change, the defense of the environment or the design of cities. ...
Burgos Leiva, Camila (Date of defense: 2016-05-30)
This research aims to study the behavior of wooden facades in Mediterranean climate, to check its performance and durability through two years of weathering. We performed a theoretical studyof sorne examples of traditiona ...
Mashhouri, Leila (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
This research has been developed with the intention of investigating a different generation of pavements. Most of the current pavements have the same basic standard characteristics and this ensures that living conditions ...
Ramírez-Casas, J. (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)
(English) In the area of architecture and construction, natural cement is the least known of traditional conglomerates. Most professionals in the sector who are interested in conglomerates have broad knowledge of the two ...
Banirazi Motlagh, Seyed Hamed (Date of defense: 2024-02-13)
(English) Environmental protection is a principle of both Millennium Development Goals and sustainable development, underscoring critical issues like greenhouse gases, global warming, and air pollution. Air pollution is a ...
Rossi, Ludovica (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
This thesis deals with the methodology and development of a case study of biomimicry applied to the architectural design process. The case study integrates aspects of plant biology with architectural design in a theoretical ...
Avellaneda López, Omar Fabrisio (Date of defense: 2020-07-16)
Deployable structures with articulated straight bars have the virtue of being lightweight, modular and transformable. This is how the architect Felix Escrig defined them, who left us a fantastic legacy on these structures. ...
Torres Londoño, Natalia Paola (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)
This research proposes a design method for deployable domes from the scissor-type system, starting from the geometry of regular polygons for its configuration. The geometry of the regular polygons inscribed in a circumference, ...
Crespo Sánchez, Eva (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
This thesis aims to take advance of the slowdown of the construction sector in recent years, in order to achieve a qualitative leap in the design and implement system of the vertical grids in multifamily residential buildings ...
Guzmán Hernández, Ignacio Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-11-06)
(English) Popular housing in hot and humid areas of Mexico often faces challenges in terms of energy efficiency and comfort due to extreme weather conditions. Humidity is one of the main problems affecting the habitability ...
Alentorn Puigcerver, Jaume (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
Connections between different structural elements, despite the fact that very often have been despised as structural components and have been considered as simple constructive details ,are key elements to guarantee a corree! ...
Calderón Peñafiel, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2019-06-20)
Considering that architecture and construction play an active part in the current global warming problems, there is a need to develop resistant construction materials with coherent environmental characteristics. The main ...
Font Basté, Jaume (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
In the wake of the great economic crisis of 1973, the migratory movement undergone through the previous twenty years in the metropolitan area of Barcelona comes to an end and urban growth slows down heavily. The end of ...
Arnaiz Barrio, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)
The fundamental objective of this thesis is to delve into the process of generating the shape of tensioned membrane structures, from the conjunction of the theoretical foundations presented and practical experimentation, ...
Pesic, Nikola (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
The objective of this investigation is to evaluate the geo-climatic potential for comfort cooling energy savings in mid-rise office buildings applying advanced natural ventilation (ANV) approach based on the stack-effect. ...
Cantos Coronel, Héctor Andrés (Date of defense: 2020-02-19)
This document describes the technological feasibility of a structural system based on hexagonal modules with lockable pin joints. The system is mainly aimed at the construction of low and medium height buildings in ...
Aguilar Urquidez, Pavel (Date of defense: 2024-02-26)
(English) This doctoral thesis aims to develop an Additive Manufacturing technique for the production of Ceramic Building Elements with controlled variable density. The research seeks to provide an alternative to the ...
Huang, Dawei (Date of defense: 2024-10-11)
(English) This thesis investigates the adhesion behavior between sprayed mortar and masonry substrates, focusing on the influence of compressive strength, mortar age, and surface roughness on adhesion strength. Through ...