[EN] Aged road pavements and insufficient maintenance budgets, along with increasing concerns over the environmental issues related to transportation have introduced additional challenges to highway agencies. Multiobjective ...
Pavement maintenance is one of the major issues of public agencies. Insufficient investment or inefficient maintenance strategies lead to high economic expenses in the long term. Under budgetary restrictions, the optimal ...
[EN] There is an urgent need to improve the assessment of construction companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in public-works procurement. Current procurement procedures assign a high level of subjectivity to CSR ...
[EN] Ground transportation infrastructures, particularly road infrastructure, are essential for economic and social development. The quality level that the user perceives is mainly determined by the pavement condition. ...
Torres Machí, Cristina; Carrión García, Andrés; Yepes Piqueras, Víctor; Eugenio Pellicer(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013-04)
The economic crisis that currently affects some Western countries has reduced the employability of graduates in the construction industry. Nevertheless, many young professionals consider this situation as an opportunity ...
[EN] As a well established discipline and profession, project management has its distinctive tools and techniques. One of them that has been considered the embodiment of the core principles of project management is the ...
Guaita Luján, Borja(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-10-26)
[EN] Land transport infrastructures are one of the greatest goods of current world, which supposes an adequate conservation management. Specifically, maintenance works are especially important when countries reach higher ...
Serra Santamaría, José Ramón(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-10-26)
[EN] Land transport infrastructures are one of the greatest goods of current world, which supposes an adequate conservation management. Specifically, maintenance works are especially important when countries reach higher ...
[EN] The current economic crisis has affected the Spanish construction industry causing the loss of 1.2 million jobs in the last four years. This paper seeks to analyze the impact of this crisis in construction from the ...
Picornell, Miguel; Pellicer, Eugenio; Torres-Machí, Cristina; Sutrisna, Monty(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)
[EN] The earned value management (EVM) method is internationally considered a standard tool in the project management field, enabling professionals to plan and control cost and schedule in an integrated manner. However, ...
Yepes, V.; Torres Machí, Cristina; Chamorro, Alondra; Pellicer Armiñana, Eugenio(Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2016)
Insufficient investment in the public sector together with inefficient maintenance infrastructure programs lead to high economic costs in the long term. Thus, infrastructure managers need practical tools to maximize the ...
Torres Machí, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-04-16)
[EN] Despite the importance of infrastructure in economic and social development, available funds for their maintenance are often insufficient, leading to a rapid deterioration. In this context arises the discipline of ...
Torres Machí, Cristina; Yepes, V.; Alcalá González, Julián; Pellicer Armiñana, Eugenio(Iran University of Science & Technology, 2013-06)
[EN] This paper describes a methodology in designing high-performance concrete for simply supported beams, using a hybrid optimization strategy based on a variable neighborhood search threshold acceptance algorithm. Three ...
Torres Machí, Cristina; Chamorro, A.; Pellicer Armiñana, Eugenio; Yepes, V.; Videla, C.(National Academy of Sciences, 2015)
Sustainability, which is founded in the reconciliation of economic, environmental and social aspects, has become a major issue for infrastructure managers. The economic and environmental impacts of pavement maintenance are ...
Transport sector constitutes the second largest source of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, being the road transportation the main contributor of these emissions. Efforts in the road sector have traditionally focused ...