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Este artigo investiga as estratégias defensivas contra o sofrimento utilizadas pelos trabalhadores terceirizados de uma construtora em Brasília, utilizando como referencial teórico-metodológico a Psicodinâmica do Tr...

Este artigo almeja analisar as operações de nation-building, que, desde os atentados terroristas de 11 de setembro de 2001, são consideradas uma das maneiras para se lidar com as novas ameaças de segurança internaci...

Laterite soil is essential in the construction industry, especially in road and building construction. The practice of abandoning borrow pits after mining laterite soil in the Northern Region of Ghana has resulted in lan...

Abstract This study evaluates the effectiveness of Competence-Based Training in fostering conceptual understanding, skill acquisition, and market opportunities for trainees at Nyamirama Technical Secondary School, Rwanda...

Social aspects are an integral part of sustainable building alongside environmental and economic aspects. While current Green Building Rating Systems such as LEED, BREEAM, and SBToolCZ address primarily technically quant...

Abstract This study investigates how Supportive Leadership (SL) influences Eco-Friendly Building Adoption (EFBA) through Sustainability Cognition (SC) and Perceived Managerial Capability (PMC) within the Stimulus–Organ...

This study evaluates the cost implications of green building practices in low-rise residential housing by analyzing three sample houses in Kayseri, Türkiye. It compares traditional construction systems with green altern...

The “Findings in…” section in this issue of VLC arquitectura is devoted to Architectural Construction, a field whose recent evolution highlights its capacity to open up new lines of reflection and research on the b...

O autor procura entender por que processos de paz não são eficazes em estabelecer uma paz estável e duradoura depois que conflitos intra-estatais são encerrados. Ele argumenta que a insistência na construção de Es...

Globally, several countries have begun to promote the application of building information modeling (BIM) technology and implement BIM-based building e-Permit systems. Despite the relatively rapid updates in the field of ...

One of the greatest developments that human civilizations have seen throughout the ages is urbanisation, that’s why man has created legal rules organizing it, and laws to regulate urban activity and guarantee individua...

Based on the Winkler foundation model, the interactions of the frame structure, strip basement and soil foundation are simplified as a shear-flexural beam on elastic foundation. The different construction distances are c...

Background: The Zondo Commission exposed how corruption and collusion undermined South Africa’s state and business relations. However, little is known about its impact on small businesses and local economic developmen...

Phase change materials (PCM) are receiving ever-growing attention as a promising construction material for improving building energy performance through thermal storage and peak load shifting. The analysis of PCM perform...

The Comprehensive Environmental Design and Evaluation System (CEDES) is based on a general taxonomic and conceptual framework that allows it to function both as a building sustainability assessment system and as a flexib...

The choice of building façade materiality and composition plays a significant role in indoor and outdoor thermal comfort as well as energy efficiency. However, the carbon footprint of most construction materials contrib...

O trabalho teve como objetivo descrever a construção e os estudos psicométricos iniciais de uma escala para avaliação da impulsividade. Para isso foram realizados três estudos com três amostras diferentes de aluno...

Nas últimas décadas, tem se tornado cada vez mais freqüente a realização de pesquisas que contemplam a elaboração de corpus documentais baseados em registros remanescentes da polícia e da justiça criminal. Na hi...

In this paper, the assessment of the radon exhalation rate of the Modica stone building material, untreated and accelerated aged through salt crystallization test, is reported as a case study. Noteworthy, this constructi...

The rediscovery of a labour camp on the construction site of the Stalin Monument in Prague in spring 2021 was the result of a construction project of the Municipality of Prague. Until then, the existence of this specific...

Although Philadelphia’s nineteenth-century public school system was praised by some contemporaries for its efficient administration, the city’s sudden embrace of clinical discourse and “bottom-up” hygienic initia...

For the a building with 13 floors high and no basemnt located in Shanghai, short leg shear wall system is used for the superstructure, and the foundation beams with precast tubular piles are used to be the foundation typ...

This article explores Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of the scientific method, focusing on the three main stages he proposes: epistemological rupture, knowledge construction, and empirical verification. We begin by analyz...

IntroductionRapid advances in digital technology have significantly increased the auditing industry's demand for interdisciplinary talent. However, current digital-intelligent auditing courses in higher education still f...