Carlos Rizo Maestre

University of Alicante | UA · University institute of the Water and the Environmental Sciences

Abstract: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is the most common neuropsychological disorder in childhood and adolescence, affecting the basic psychological processes involved in learning, social adaptation and affective adjustment. From previous research, the disorder is linked to problems in different areas of development, with deficiencies...

The synthetic material developed by Dupont in 1963 for solid surfaces has been used since its origin for numerous applications. One of the most popular ones in the last decade is as a finishing layer on façades. The first references that contemplated this use on the outside were the Seeko’o hotel in Bordeaux executed in 2007 and the refurbishment o...

In December 2019, Spain considered for the first time the presence of radon to the Technical Building Code (Basic Document HS 6: Radon Exposure Protection), although it only mentions minimum presences and the need for ventilation. This research shows that in buried structures or in places with little ventilation, even in soils with a low probabilit...

Ceramic claddings on building facades not only present functional qualities and good resistance; they also add value to the architecture due to their qualities of light reflection, gloss and iridescence. The colour ranges produced by some enamel application techniques can vary widely. They change depending on one’s angle of vision and movement, col...

The term Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has a long history of problems behind it. The origin of all these problems lies in the lack of agreement in the assessment procedures and evaluation instruments. The diagnosis is clinical and is determined by the observation and information provided by parents and teachers. So, this is highly...

The current computer technology facilitates the processing of large volumes of information in architectural design teams, in parallel with recent advances in-flight automation in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) along with lower costs, facilitates their use to capture aerial photographs and obtain orthophotographs and 3D models of relief and terrain...

Current market conditions characterized by technological changes, increasing regulatory requirements and low funding make current construction management models obsolete. This tendency affects not only the private housing market but also public administration projects, which have large time and budget deviations across the board. As a result, new a...

Nowadays, cyber attacks are becoming an extremely serious issue, which is particularly important to prevent in a smart city context. Among cyber attacks, spoofing is an action that is increasingly common in many areas, such as emails, geolocation services or social networks. Identity spoofing is defined as the action by which a person impersonates...

In recent years, phase change materials (PCMs) have gained major relevance for their ability to take advantage of indoor/outdoor air temperature differences to store energy. This characteristic of PCMs allows to transfer stored energy to periods of energy demand, thus achieving optimum conditions of comfort and notable energy savings. The presen...

The restoration of historical buildings often implies a change in the main use of the building so that it can once again become a part of people’s lives. Among the interventions needed to adapt the buildings to their new purpose, improving the energy performance is always a challenge due to their particular construction solutions and the influence...

In several large retail stores, such as malls, sport or food stores, the customer often feels lost due to the difficulty in finding a product. Although these large stores usually have visual signs to guide customers toward specific products, sometimes these signs are also hard to find and are not updated. In this paper, we propose a system that joi...

The infrastructure of the Británica warehouses in Alicante is a very important industrial architectural element in the history of Spain, although it is unknown to almost all of the inhabitants of the city. The former fuel refinery is located in the Serra Grossa Mountains and served much of the country until 1966. This research is based on the plans...

The EU members have adopted regulations and official methods for evaluating the energy performance in buildings. Most of these methods are applied at the end of the project phase, with few opportunities to correct erroneous design decisions when the desired building energy performance is not achieved. It is demonstrated that there is no European st...

Radiant floor air conditioning systems based on capillary tube mats, in addition to offering high comfort standards, generate significant energy savings. They allow the use of renewable energies such as thermal solar panels and combine them with solar cooling systems based on lithium chloride or absorption systems with lithium bromide in summer, co...

In the field of architecture, there is a growing awareness as to the relevance of using building materials that are produced in same geographical area as the buildings to be constructed. Important implications of these projects include environmental impact reductions deriving from less energy needed for transporting the materials, as well as the ac...

This article aims to model the thermal behaviour of a wall using deep learning techniques. The Fourier theoretical model which is traditionally used to model such enclosures is not capable of considering several factors that affect a prediction that is often incorrect. These results motivate us to try to obtain a better thermal model of the enclosu...

Temperature data. Temperature data obtained in the building using the sensors presented in the paper. This dataset contains 23,052 valid readings. A reading was made every 30 minutes, and an approximate time interval of 480 days was covered, obtaining 240 readings per day (48 for each of the five sensors arranged in the facade). The dataset is save...

Building an ad-hoc network in emergency situations can be crucial as a primary tool or even when used prior to subsequent operations. The use of mini and micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is increasing because of the wide range of possibilities they offer. Moreover, they have been proven to bring sustainability to many applications, such as agr...

Radiant surface conditioning systems based on capillary tube mats not only provide high standards of comfort, but they also generate substantial energy savings. These systems allow for using renewable energies such as solar thermal panels because they function with water at moderate temperatures—lower in winter and higher in summer—compared to fan-...

In this work, a swarm behaviour for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) deployment will be presented. The main contribution of this behaviour is the use of a virtual device for quantitative sematectonic stigmergy providing more adaptable behaviours in complex environments. It is a fault tolerant highly robust behaviour that does not require...

Data graphs. Original graphs that contains the simulation an model data. (ZIP)

Simulation maps. Maps used in the simulation. Black pixels are not navigable. One pixel represent 1 meter in simulation. (ZIP)

Opaque enclosures of buildings play an essential role in the level of comfort experienced indoors and annual energy demand. The impact of solar radiation and thermal inertia of the materials that make up the multi-layer enclosures substantially modify thermal transmittance behaviour of the enclosures. This dynamic form of heat transfer, additionall...

The study presented analyzes the amount of Radon gas in two unique constructions of the city of Alicante: The Old Ammunition Store of the Ereta (“Polvorín de la Ereta”) and the Luceros-Marq Railway Tunnel of the TRAM in Alicante (Spain). These infrastructures are very important for the city due to its historical character in the case of the magazin...

Evaluation systems have been continuously studied from different angles but it is necessary to understand the way our students react to samples in various courses including years in which the method is being followed. Taking as a reference the Intelligent Systems course that is being taught at the Polytechnic School during the years 2012 to 2016 a...

FIPA is an IEEE Computer Society standards organization that promotes agent-based technology and the interoperability of its standards with other technologies. In the design phase of Intelligent Buildings, it is essential to manage many services and facilities, to do this, multi-agent systems are a good tool to manage them. In this paper, we will g...

In the design phase of Intelligent Buildings, it is essential to manage many services and facilities, to do this, multi-agent systems are a good tool to manage them. This article addresses fundamental aspects of multi-agent systems, oriented to their integration into the design and construction of intelligent buildings. Sensors, control and actuato...

The presence of Radon gas in buildings is an indicator of air quality. The present study analyzes the amount of radon gas in the most singular construction of the city of Alicante (Spain): The Castle of Santa Bárbara. These infrastructures are very important for the city due to its historical character. Radon gas is considered to be highly harmful...

—Radon is a type of radioactive gaseous element that is considered as an extremely harmful element to people's health by the World Health Organization (WHO). The study is radon gas within the framework of construction. Radon is a radioactive element that is present in building materials as in all fields where human construct the buildings. This ele...

Numerous reports show the low level of preparedness of high school students in mathematics in order to cope with the subjects of the first courses in university, especially in the Engineering and Architecture degrees. In a recent Pisa report, the European Union reported the underpreparedness of students in mathematics [1]. This article is the resul...

Radon is a gas that is considered as an extremely harmful element to people's health by the World Health Organization (WHO). Radon is a type of radioactive gaseous element that is present in almost all materials with which buildings are constructed, as well as in the areas in which they are raised. For this reason, one should take into consideratio...