Maria Victoria Montes

Universidad de Sevilla | US · Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas II

Construction and demolition waste represents a growing environmental, social, and economic problem, and has become a priority for European and worldwide policies. The early quantification of construction waste is essential for the minimisation of its production and the improvement of waste management. This requires the development of design-based t...

OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE The built environment is significantly responsible for the current climate crisis, thus developing more sustainable projects is becoming an urgent objective. One widely recognized method that supports achieving this objective is the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), which enables a holistic, quantitative evaluation o...

OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE: Construction waste (CW) is a prime contributor to the stream of total waste worldwide. One of the biggest challenges of the construction industry is to minimise CW and to develop practices of a more sustainable nature for its management and recycling in order to promote its transition towards a more effective circular economy....

Waste generated by the Construction Sector represents an environmental problem in many countries. To achieve increasingly eco-efficient waste management, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides an objective method for the quantification of the potential impact that waste management exerts on the environment. Traditionally, LCA has focused on the evalu...

The role, the economic relevance and the impacts of the construction sector in the world demand, in today’s society, increasing requirements in terms of sustainability and efficiency. According to ISO 15686, the LCC (Life Cycle Cost) methodology is a useful technique that allows the evaluation of comparative costs during a specific period of time,...

The construction sector is one of the highest waste generators in many countries. Several studies evidence the close relationship between the decisions taken during the design phase and the reduction of the construction and demolition wastes (CDW). Moreover, many studies show the advantages of Rehabilitation versus Demolition. However, a main barri...

Currently, the building stock is energy inefficient. Consequently, the residential sector is one of the main sources emitting Greenhouse Gases, mainly due to the poor thermal performance of envelopes. Thermal bridges are among those envelope elements where heat losses or gains take place. A previous study highlighted the importance of controlling t...

The construction and building sectors are one of the highest consumers of resources and energy. Literature evidences the potentialities of the design phase towards the improvement of environmental, economic and social performance of buildings. Thus, the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA). approach is recognized as suitable method. It is ba...

This essay presents the bases for a new teaching methodology for the Final Project of the Degree of Building Engineering. The aim of this methodology is to approach students to advanced forms of work in architectural and engineering offices by employing Building Information Modelling (BIM) technologies. This initiative has been funded within the Ca...

La profunda crisis económica sufrida recientemente en España ha puesto de manifiesto la vulnerabilidad del Sector de la Construcción y la necesidad de desarrollar nuevas herramientas que incrementen su eficacia. Centrándonos en el aspecto económico de las obras, un acuciante problema es la importante desviación existente entre presupuesto y coste r...

The recent economic crisis suffered by the Spanish construction industry has brought to light its excessive vulnerability to fluctuations in the real estate market. Overcoming this situation requires to innovate this industry in order to increase its efficiency. A large amount of researches in Spain focus on the improvement of the environmental eff...

SISTEMA DE CLASIFICACIÓN DE PROCESOS DE EJECUCIÓN PARA LA REDACCIÓN DE PRESUPUESTOS DE OBRAS DE EDIFICACIÓN POR PROCESOS PRODUCTIVOS.

SISTEMA DE CLASIFICACIÓN DE PROCESOS BÁSICOS PARA LA REDACCIÓN DE PRESUPUESTOS DE OBRAS DE EDIFICACIÓN POR PROCESOS PRODUCTIVOS.

Building actors need accurate estimates in order to efficiently undertake the construction of buildings. The knowledge of real expected costs of construction works is a necessary condition for contractors to submit competitive tenders and for developers to be aware of the magnitude of their investment. In this paper, an innovative process-based mod...

The goal of this project is to implement an estimate model for building works, which provides transparent and real cost estimates. For this, the model starts from the consideration of production processes, derived from the planning, organization and programming of works, as core elements of the building system work and, consequently, generators of...

The execution process of a building construction should be able to materialize in the formulation of estimates, which must be rigorous, so that the company can offer prices that will profit from the project, rational, so that they needs of the developer and builder and operational so that building works can be tracked in order to guide their implem...

The new model works by budgeting processes, allows the estimation of the costs of implementation from the decisions taken in the planning, organization and scheduling of the implementation process. This paper analyzes and budgets using the new model, theinfrastructure phase of a real work of construction of 203 housing VPO in height. Processes in b...

Two new recycled gypsum boards are proposed which have a better environmental performance due to the fact that they are made of traditional materials and new recycled ones derived from biomass (waste generated during the extraction of olive pomace) and the coal combustion produced in power plants. Before using these wastes as raw materials, they ha...

n this research, the environmental level of a construction product has been defined as its quality of accomplishing the construction requirements needed by causing the minimum ecological impact in its surrounding environment. This information allows building actors to choose suitable materials for building needs and also for the environment, mainly...

The construction produces a significant environmental impact; it consumes about 40% of the natural resources and generates about 40% of the total waste. Then, the construction technician is responsible, among others, through the design, material selection, construction, usage and final demolition, to reduce the environmental impact. There is a big...

Currently, construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) is a worldwide issue that concerns not only governments but also the building actors involved in construction activity. In Spain, a new national decree has been regulating the production and management of C&D waste since February 2008. The present work describes the waste management model tha...

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El objeto de esta comunicación es presentar el proyecto de investigación SUSPURPOL (Sustainable Purchasing and Planning Policy Blueprint Project). Este proyecto, perteneciente al programa europeo INTERREG III, involucra a instituciones de 3 países comunitarios diferentes (Gran Bretaña, Polonia y España) y se extiende desde febrero 2006 hasta noviem...

The International Conference on Sustainable Construction took place in Seville last November. The meeting was organized by the Andalusian Institute of Technology (IAT) in collaboration with the Professional Association of Quantity Surveyors and Technical Architects of Seville (COAATSE) and the School of Technical Architects (EUAT). The conference w...