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Sustainability in the Civil Construction Sector Supported by Industry 4.0 Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities
(2022-02-01)
The civil construction sector is under pressure to make construction processes more sustainable, that is, aligned with economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Thus, the research question considers: How do ...
Epistemic parenthetical constructions on constructional perspective
(Univ Federal Fluminense, 2015-01-01)
In this paper, I investigate epistemic parenthetical constructions originated from a constructional scheme formed by a matrix clause with adjectival epistemic predicator and an embedded clause in subject position. I assume ...
Degrees of schematicity of verbal-noun constructions with the verb deixar in Brazilian Portuguese
(Federal Univ Ceara, 2017-01-01)
The aim of the paper is to investigate, based on the theoretical premises of Traugott and Trousdale's (2013) constructional approach and Bybee's (2010) cognitive-functional approach, the verbal-noun (VN) constructions with ...
Coordination of construction behavior in the termite Procornitermes araujoi: structure is a stronger stimulus than volatile marking
(Springer, 2014-08-01)
We studied the behavioral coordination mechanisms underlying morphogenesis in shelter construction by the termite Procornitermes araujoi. We detected positive feedback in both digging and pellet deposition behavior. The ...
Assessing the impacts of implementing lean construction
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Departamento de Ingeniería y Gestión de la Construcción, 2008)
Effects of uncertainty on scheduling of highway construction projects
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín). Facultad de Minas., 2015-09-01)
Time and cost overruns in highway construction are usual in Colombia. Contractors regularly fail in cost estimation and construction scheduling. An analysis of important factors on time and cost overruns in highway ...
Adoption of environmental practices on construction sites
(ANTAC - Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído, 2017)
Hybrid constructed wetlands as post-treatment of blackwater: An assessment of the removal of antibiotics
(2021-01-15)
New sanitation systems have been developed to treat, recover energy and nutrients, and permit reuse processes at the source of generation, minimizing water use and flow segregation. Thus, this study was carried out with ...