building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. du...

To complement the IceCube neutrino telescope currently under construction at the South Pole, the three Mediterranean neutrino telescope projects ANTARES, NEMO and NESTOR have joined forces to develop, construct and operate a km-scale neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea. Since February 2006, the technical specifications and performance of such a detector are studied in the framework of a...

In this technical appendix we provide proofs for the various results stated in the manuscript titled: “When promotions meet operations: Cross-selling and its effect on call-center performance”. We start the technical appendix with the construction of the sample paths for all related processes. Specifically, our construction follows a strong approximation approach (see for example [7] and [8]). ...

Texts aimed at construction research students at all levels describe the organisation and undertaking of research work. These generally include a descriptive discussion of the works of such philosophers as Aristotle, Kant and Popper and relate this to theory building, theoretical frameworks, paradigms, etc. Reference is made to hypotheticodeductive methods, action research and grounded theory t...

The hydroelectric power plants use technical instructions of maintenance and operation to instruct maintainers and operators about the maintenance and operation procedures to be executed in their generating units. These instructions consist of well defined scripts with 2d flat drawings and of activities in textual format. This paper presents an authoring tool that allows the construction of the...

The housing industry is characterized for its repeated building defects causing cost increase and time delay during the construction. In Spain, despite the Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación (Building Regulation Act) which establishes a general framework within which to promote overall building quality, defects during construction in houses remain a pervasive problem. This paper presents the f...

Nowadays, in modern societies, growing activities in construction affairs and their economic development have been resulted construction wastes and so much demolition in the past three decades. Most of these wastes have not been treated and therefore caused severe damages to the environment. In this research, after reviewing construction and demolition management methods and their accesso...