López Carreño, Rubén-Daniel (Date of defense: 2018-07-31)
The construction and conservation of road networks represent a major part of public expenditure. For instance, the EU-28 countries annually spend approximately EUR 20.000 million on roadway preservation. ...
Puntos Pérez, Sonsoles (Date of defense: 2015-09-29)
During years the hitoric British treatises about construclion have been considered almost exclusively from the point of view of the use of orders and the architectural planning of major houses, palaces ...
Pujol Sánchez, Mireia (Date of defense: 2018-06-26)
The use of externally bonded fibre reinforced polymers, FRP, for strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) beams or columns is an alternative to other traditional strengthening techniques due to its high ...
Caballero Gómez, Alberto Adán (Date of defense: 2016-06-17)
The process of control of a construction project involving the whole life cycle is a complex task. The version of control of a project on the basis only of the execution of the work is a limited version, ...
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 ...
Aranibar del Alcázar, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-04-25)
The PhD thesis THE FORM IN RICHARD NEUTRA'S RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE. 1950-1965, investigates the maturity of the professional career of the architect Richard Neutra (1892-1970) focusing on the single-family ...
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 ...
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 ...