Construction has always been characterized as a fragmented, complex, and challenging industry. This has been reflected throughout the life cycle of construction projects, whether in design, construction, or operation and ...

This paper studies construction of facilities in a federal state under asymmetric information. A country consists of two regions, each ruled by a local authority. The federal government plans to construct a facility in one ...

A temporary work environment containing areas of support to the production process, such as the administrative, operational, and living areas should be foreseen and planned as support to the implementation of works. These ...

Covering location models consider a demand "covered" if there is at least one facility sited within a preset threshold distance. If more than one facility satisfies this criterion, it is implicitly assumed that one of these ...

Collaborative applications provide a group of users with the facility to communicate and share data in a coordinated way. Building collaborative applications is still a complex task. In this paper we propose a pattern ...

The experience of the Society for the Construction of Educational Facilities (SCEE; initials from the Spanish title) is a unique case in Chile of a public agency dedicated to a single task: designing and building the schools ...

This thesis aproaches the process of designing an appliance factory that produces mainly: fans, exhaust fans and extractors of fruit juice. The company has a high level of verticalization in its production process and ...