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Subjects / keywords: CHING, FRANCIS D.K; WILEY; 690 C539b

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...

Subjects / keywords: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Engineering economy; Technology: Building construction

Subjects / keywords: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Engineering economy; Technology: Building construction

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...

Subjects / keywords: building, construction, property, quantity surveying; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Engineering economy; Technology: Building construction

Subjects / keywords: cost estimating, road construction, property management, construction economics, building economics, quantity surveying; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Engineering economy; Technology: Bu...

The book, ADVANCES IN BUILDING ENGINEERING RESEARCH, has been conceived as a result of the efforts of some of the most relevant researchers in the field of building engineering at a national level. The work, well structu...

Women’s active participation in architecture has traditionally been obscured by historians. Mudejar architecture is a case in point. Both in early written sources and in later research, there are some excellent studies...

En los últimos años la gestión de las obras de construcción ha tenido un desarrollo importante en el Perú a partir de la incorporación de prácticas jurídicas y técnicas propias del mundo anglosajón —como es e...

Wealth inequality is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Broad-based business ownership that includes employees helps improve lives and creates a more dynamic economy. Throughout the book, the authors analyze an...

Infrastructures and buildings are built on a material that is heterogeneous in nature and whose properties are imposed by its origin: the ground. Soil or rock, the ground plays an important role in the cost and viability...

The Sagrada Familia is Barcelona's most-visited monument. Every year, over three million people walk within it. They are the anonymous patrons of the Basilica, whomake the work of some one hundred professionals possible,...

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...

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...