There is an urgent need to increase the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of buildings. Indeed, construction has one lowest rates among productive sectors, associated with high energy demand pollutant emissions, frequent cost time delays, poor unsafe working conditions. Building prefabrication a technique that can enhance buildings, in terms predictability, product process qual...

Purpose The purpose of this research is to support the customization ability for industrial house building companies striving offer individualized products but with a strategy which includes production facility. This accomplished by analyzing as-is state in terms existing engineering assets and proposing to-be using design platform product lifecycle management (PLM) support. Design/methodology/...

pollution deriving from trace elements (cd, cu, ni, pb, zn, hg, as and cr) in sediment samples(collected in 2009), belonging to rivers located in catalonia and the basque country (spain), was assessedaccording to sediment quality guidelines. sediment samples were ranked in terms of a pollution index thattakes into account the presence of multiple pollutants such as trace elements. while only ab...

In this paper we investigate the factors that impact ICT growth rates in developing countries and compare those with factors affecting industrialized countries. Four categories of factors, human development, social structure, institutional factors, and national infrastructure, were considered with respect to their impact on three ICTs: cell phones, PCs, and the Internet. ICT infrastructure infl...

Olfactory sensitivity varies between individuals. However, data regarding cross-cultural and inter-group differences are scarce. We compared the thresholds of odor detection of the traditional society of Tsimane' (native Amazonians of the Bolivian rainforest; n = 151) and people living in Dresden (Germany; n = 286) using "Sniffin' Sticks" threshold subtest. Tsimane' detected n-butanol at signif...

The ongoing undertaking of construction industrialization in China is redefining the industry and creating a new era for building construction. In order to identify the construction industrialization status and progress, a national survey is conducted across 19 key provinces and municipalities in China. Based on the collected data, construction industrialization is analyzed from various perspec...