Escobar, N.; Bautista, Inmaculada; Peña, N.; Fenollosa Ribera, M. Loreto; Osca Lluch, José María; Sanjuán Pellicer, María Nieves(Elsevier, 2022-05-15)
[EN] Rice is a staple food in Senegal, which however imports more than 70% of the rice consumed annually to meet its domestic demand. Despite governmental efforts to increase rice self-sufficiency, both rice supply and ...
Juraske, Ronnie; Sanjuán Pellicer, María Nieves(Elsevier, 2011-02)
[EN] The relative impacts of 25 pesticides including acaricides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and post-harvest fungicides, used in the production of oranges in Spain were assessed with current life cycle impact ...
Quintana-Gallardo, Alberto; Alba, Jesus; Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Crespo, J.E; Guillén Guillamón, Ignacio Enrique(MDPI AG, 2020-09)
[EN] The ecological transition is a process the building industry is bound to undertake. This study aimed to develop new bio-based building partition typologies and to determine if they are suitable ecological alternatives ...
Martín-Cabezuelo, Rubén; Vilariño-Feltrer, Guillermo; CAMPILLO FERNANDEZ, ALBERTO JOSE; Lorenzo-Zúñiga, Vicente; Pons, Vicente; López-Muñoz, Pedro; Tort-Ausina, Isabel(American Chemical Society, 2023-12-29)
[EN] Ironically, healthcare systems are key agents in
respiratory-related diseases and estimated deaths because of the
high impact of their greenhouse gas emissions, along with industry,
transportation, and housing. Based ...
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 ...
Cabot, María Inés; Lado, Joanna; Sanjuán Pellicer, María Nieves(Elsevier, 2023-01-15)
[EN] Lemons are a relevant agricultural commodity in Uruguay, mainly exported for fresh consumption. Food ecolabels are on the rise worldwide as consumers and authorities are increasingly demanding them. However, there ...
Font-Pérez, Alba; Soriano Martinez, Lourdes; Tashima, M.M.; Monzó Balbuena, José Mª; Borrachero Rosado, María Victoria; Paya Bernabeu, Jorge Juan(Elsevier, 2020-10-01)
[EN] This paper focuses on investigating greener alternatives of cellular concrete technology to fulfil current searches for a shift to circular economy. A novel one-part eco-cellular concrete (ECC-OP) was developed and ...
Silva, Vivian Lara; Sanjuán Pellicer, María Nieves(Elsevier, 2019-06)
[EN] The last few decades have stood out because of the improvements made in food processing under two axes: plurality (conventional technologies co-existing with new alternatives) and sustainability (jointly with efficiency, ...
Martínez Muñoz, David(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-06)
[ES] El diseño de infraestructuras está fuertemente influido por la búsqueda de soluciones que tengan en cuenta el impacto en la economía, el medio ambiente y la sociedad. Estos criterios están muy relacionados con la ...
Mollá Muñoz, Clara María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-11-12)
The goal of this project is to execute a comparison of the life cycles of a standard house and an energy efficient house in order to achieve an acceptable balance between environmental and economic efficiency. Above ...
[EN] The application of techniques to analyze sustainability in the life cycle of small-span bridge superstructures is presented in this work. The objective was to obtain environmental and economic indicators for integration ...
[EN] The construction sector represents more than 40% of energy consumption in the European Union, as well as one of the biggest causes of environmental impact. Therefore, this sector needs a great deal of intervention ...
Navarro, I.J.; Martí Albiñana, José Vicente; Yepes, V.(Elsevier, 2019)
[EN] Sustainability is of paramount importance when facing the design of long lasting, maintenance demanding structures. In particular, a sustainable life cycle design for concrete structure exposed to aggressive environments ...
[EN] Human beings are now facing the increasingly urgent problem of global ecological environment pollution. To verify the scientific nature of environmental governance by governments of various countries, researchers need ...
[EN] The recently established Sustainable Development Goals recognize the importance of infrastructures for achieving a sustainable future. Along their long-lasting life cycle, infrastructures generate a series of impacts, ...
Omarrementería del Moral, Eugenia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-12-11)
[ES] El cambio climático es un desafío global que requiere acciones inmediatas y significativas para reducir los gases de efecto invernadero
emisiones y limitar el calentamiento global. La Unión Europea (UE) se ha fijado ...
Martínez-Muñoz, D.; Martí Albiñana, José Vicente; Yepes, V.(Hindawi Limited, 2020-05-28)
[EN] Steel-concrete composite bridges are used as an alternative to concrete bridges because of their ability to adapt their geometry to design constraints and the possibility of reusing some of the materials in the ...
Bianchi, Pollyanna Fernandes; Yepes, V.; Vitorio, Paulo Cezar Jr.; Kripka, Moacir(MDPI AG, 2021-05)
[EN] Despite insufficient housing facilities, particularly in developing countries, construction systems are generally selected intuitively or based on conventional solutions sanctioned by practice. The present study aims ...
[EN] Essential infrastructures such as bridges are designed to provide a long-lasting and intergenerational functionality. In those cases, sustainability becomes of paramount importance when the infrastructure is exposed ...
Navarro, Ignacio J.; Yepes, V.; Martí Albiñana, José Vicente(WITPress, 2021)
[EN] The establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 claims for a deep paradigm shift in the way infrastructure structures are conceived. The evaluation of the impacts derived from the con- struction, the ...