Reuse and upcycling of municipalwaste for zeb envelope design in European urban areas

Building energy efficiency and urban waste management are two focal issues for improving environmental status and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The main aim of this paper is to compare economic costs of new building envelope structures designed by authors reusing and upcycling municipal waste in order to decrease energy demand from the building sector and, at the same time, improve eco-friendly waste management at the local scale. The reuse of waste for building envelope structures is one of the main principles of the Earthship buildings model, based on the use of passive solar principles in autonomous earth-sheltered homes. This Earthship principle has been analyzed in order to optimize buildings’ energy performance and reuse municipal waste for new building envelope structures in urban areas. Indeed, the elaborated structures have been designed for urban contexts, with the aim of reuse waste coming from surrounding landfills. The methods include an analysis of thermal performance of urban waste for designing new building envelope structures realized by assembling waste and isolating materials not foreseen in Earthship buildings. The reused materials are: cardboard tubes, automobile tires, wood pallets, and plastic and glass bottles. Finally, comparing economic costs of these new building envelope structures, the obtained results highlight their economic feasibility compared to a traditional structure with similar thermal transmittance

The Picard Group of Brauer-Severi Varieties

In this note we provide explicit generators of the Picard groups of cyclic Brauer-Severi varieties defined over the base field. In particular, for all Brauer-Severi surfaces. To produce these generators we use the Twisting Theory for smooth plane curves

A sustainable requalification of Bracciano lake waterfront in Trevignano Romano

This paper describes the first interventions carried out in accordance with the results of the three years bilateral research SoURCE (Sustainable Urban Cell) performed by CITERA (Inter department Centre for Territory, Building, Conservation and Environment) of the Sapienza University of Rome and the Department of Urban Planning and Environment of the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm (KTH) regarding urban redevelopment and distributed micro-generation of buildings. The location is the municipality of Trevignano Romano in the area (urban cell) of the lake waterfront aimed at the integration of all facilities that will increase the tourist accommodation of the area. The concept of the project is to utilize empty spaces, in all lake waterfronts, for the construction of public toilets and showers, introduction of electric boat and bike rental for sightseeing with charging stations and construction of an energy efficient wooden prefabricated building to be used as a general shop for tourists (closest analogue service is about 3 km). The research is included in the executive programme for the scientific and technical cooperation between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Republic of Italy, in the area defined ‘Energy and Environment: Sustainable Cities’

O Marketing Interno/Endomarketing como ferramenta nas organizações

Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar como e quais são as ações de Marketing Interno/Endomarketing promovidas nas organizações estudadas e quais são os setores envolvidos na gestão desta ferramenta. A intenção desta pesquisa é fazer uma observação sobre a importância do endomarketing nas organizações e verificar o quanto as mesmas sentem os impactos das ações promovidas. Para tanto, foram aplicadas entrevistas em profundidade, semiestruturadas e abertas, com gestoras de duas empresas, uma de médio e outra de grande porte. Após feita a análise, foi possível notar que as duas organizações trabalham com ações promocionais e as identificam como importantes para a integração dos colaboradores. A organização que faz pesquisa de clima sente-se mais satisfeita com os resultados das ações e percebe mais fortemente a importância delas. Também destaca-se a importância da comunicação interna nas duas empresas, e, por último, nota-se que não há nenhum profissional de Relações Públicas ligado à gestão desta área nas organizações.The main objective of this paper is to investigate which Internal Marketing actions are promoted by the organizations researched, how they are conducted and which departments are involved in the management of this tool. This research intends to observe the significance of Internal Marketing to organizations and to assess how they perceive the impact of the promoted actions. In order to do so, open-ended semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with managers from a medium and a large company. After data analysis, it was possible to note that both businesses make use of promotional actions and acknowledge their importance to the promotion of integration among employees. The company that conducts organizational climate surveys is more satisfied with the actions they promote and perceives them as force to be reckoned with. Furthermore, attention is drawn to how relevant internal communication is to both businesses and, at last, the absence of a Public Relations professional connected to the management of this area

Perspectivas de futuro de la Arqueología Medieval en Alava.

Este artículo es el resultado de una reflexión personal sobre el futuro que cabe a la arqueología alavesa a partir del panorama actual y de las posibles vías de actuación