[EN] The concerns surrounding sustainability, alternative energies, and lifestyle changes due to the pandemic have resulted in a surge in the manufacturing of buildings utilizing Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), ...
Guaygua, Byron; Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2023-12)
[EN] Precast concrete buildings (PCB) offer several advantages, including swift construction, exceptional quality, enhanced durability, decreased formwork requirements, and reduced labour. However, it is crucial to effectively ...
[EN] The analytic network process (ANP) is a discrete multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method conceived as a generalization of the traditional analytic hierarchical process (AHP) to address its limitations. ANP allows ...
Navarro, Ignacio J.; Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Yepes, V.(IATED Academy, 2021-03-09)
[EN] The construction sector is one of the principal contributors to the actual levels of environmental stress, but is also recognised as an essential sector to promote human well-being, access to education or poverty ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2022-06-01)
[EN] The soil is not always suitable or competent to support a direct shallow foundation in construction. In many cases, to avoid costly deep foundations, it is indicated to replace, improve, or reinforce such soil. This ...
[EN] In recent times, education for sustainability is gaining more and more relevance in the field of engineering. One of the recently established Sustainable Development Goals explicitly calls for the achievement of ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2020-06-10)
[EN] In the architecture sector, single-family housing projects are often linked to demand from private clients, without arousing very much interest from developers, who seek higher returns on other real estate assets. For ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(IATED Academy, 2020-11-10)
[EN] This paper is based on the contents of the postgraduate course "Prediction and optimization models of concrete structures", taught in the Master of Concrete Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in ...
Yepes, V.; Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.(IATED Academy, 2021-03-09)
[EN] Traditionally, technical degrees have focused on promoting the functionality and durability of designs, orienting the capacities of their students towards the optimization of economic aspects. The challenges that have ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2022-01-01)
[EN] Since the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals, great concern has arisen on how to diminish the impacts that result from construction activities. In such context, Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) ...
Sánchez-Garrido, Antonio J.; Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2021-07)
[EN] This paper proposes a methodology for the assessment of the sustainability among three different structural design alternatives for a single-family home. The response associated with each alternative has been measured ...