Research on how sustainability is implemented through participation in the housing cooperative La Borda

The utilization of housing cooperatives, which is a form of affordable housing, has been an effective solution to a portion of Spain's housing crisis both before and after the Global Financial Crisis. La Borda, an innovative participatory design housing cooperative in Barcelona, was constructed in 2018 by architect cooperative LaCol and...

Agroecologies for the Stateless: The case of Murcia, Spain

Murcia, one of Spain’s autonomous communities, is located in south-eastern Spain. The region is a gigantic irrigation machine operated by farmers, cooperatives, and increasingly foreign-owned multinationals or large supermarkets that either cultivate their own land or lease from smaller plot owners. It comprises a sector that has managed to make...

El Patio Popular: Origin and development of the Patio Popular during the 20th century

This academic essay focuses on the origins and development of the<br/>patio popular, in specific in the 20th century when this typology appears<br/>in Córdoba. It aims to not only contribute to the lacking of English<br/>academic literature about the topic but also to create connections<br/>between the historic context and its influence on the...

Jaap Bakema’s Open Society in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Appraisal of ’t Hool, the Netherlands and Montbau, Spain

The concept of the Open Society appeared in the CIAM discourse of the 1950s as an attempt to create condition in the city for society to prosper. These good intentions at the theoretical level did not always translate into success stories in practice, and some of the consequences of such a gap can be still felt today, amplified by multiple...

A study of situational circumstances related to Spain's occupational accident rates in the metal sector from 2009 to 2019

The metal sector encompasses a variety of economic activities, such as metallurgy and the manufacturing of metallic elements. These activities represent great diversity in production processes. Worker-related characteristics are particularly important in these processes and the accident rate. In view of the metal sector's importance and that the...

La vivienda que queremos después de la pandemia

The article discusses the central role that housing is playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in the context of Spain.<br/>First, it argues that, during the lockdown, housing has changed from being regarded a right to almost a duty. It questions the implications of such renewed consideration in terms of housing conditions, policy,...

Developing an explanatory model for the firm investments in submarine optic telecommunication cables: A case study of the investment behavior to the Netherlands and Spain

Interconnection with the internet is important for the business climate in a country. Therefore it is relevant for governments to understand the factors that influence the investments in submarine communication cables. However there is no singly comprehensive theory that explains the investments in this industry. Therefore the research question...

European Diversity: A Building Site Experience

Dutch and French construction law show fundamentally different approaches. This internship report aims to illustrate the impact which legislation has on building site interactions. Part of the research was a 5 week internship for Garcés-de Seta-Bonet, the Catalan architect office awarded with the renovation and partial reconstruction of the...

Regionalization of housing policies? An exploratory study of Andalusia, Catalonia and the Basque Country

The Spanish home ownership sector has been hit hard by the economic crisis. Repossessions stand at around half a million in the period from 2008 to 2014. This article investigates how the authorities, both at the level of the Spanish state and of the autonomous communities (regions), have responded to this problem. We investigated whether...

Renewable energy support policy in Spain: An analysis of the decision-making process (1994-2014)

In this paper, the decision-making process behind the RE support policy will be explored in order to answer the following research questions: “why has the policy-making process been revised so many times?” and “how can such a drastic change on the RE support policy be explained?” The answer is found by making use of Lindblom's incrementalism...

Presentation of the Spanish project TRAINER "Autonomous Regeneration of Materials for Different Applications"

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Cost Benefit Analysis of Gas Smart Metering for Commercial and Domestic Users in Spain

Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and Council introduces the obligation for Member States to review the use of smart metering, whose implementation may be subject to the outcome of an economic evaluation of costs and benefits. Consequently in July 2010, by Order ITC 1890/2010, the CNE is responsible for conducting a study on the...

1. Assessment of Transparency in the Mediterranean region and Monitoring of the MEDREG Guidelines of Good Practice (GGP) on Transparency. 2. Assessment (metric) to the level of energy security of supply in EU/Spain and the main factors

1. The purpose of the report is to investigate the transparency status in the gas systems and markets of Mediterranean countries, and to monitor the guidelines and recommendations on transparency contained in the MEDREG of Good Practice (GGP). The results of this analysis are presented in the report. 2. The purpose of this report is to give the...

Recent changes in Spanish housing policies: Subsidized owner-occupancy as a new tenure sector?

The conventional model of social housing in Spain is a peculiarity within European housing policy, in that it is almost entirely owner-occupied. Subsidized owneroccupancy housing maintains the status of social housing for a set number of years, during which time it cannot be sold against market prices. After that period, its status changes, and...

Wave Energy Conversion: Theory of wave energy conversion; Wave energy converters, the state of the art; Design of a wave power converting breakwater for the Port of Bilbao, North Spain

Since the awareness that the conventional energy sources will run short, the use of various renewable energy sources has been investigated, these are solar, wind, ocean and geothennal energy. Quite some countries are interested in wave energy conversion. In several countries some full-scale wave energy converting pilot plants have been tested....

Impacts of sea-level rise on the Ebro Delta: A first approach. Coastal zone management in the Mediterranean