In the Campinas-SP region are found a thick layers of porous lateritic clay, in general overlaying a clayey silt stratum originating from a diabasic rock. The water table in general is found over 10m depth. There are ...

The usage of straw-clay as building material, traditionally used in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland for centuries, is nearly unknown in Brazil. The importance of such material is in its construction process simplicity, ...

Almost 75% of the thermal heat load comes from the roof. Several alternatives were already marketed, such as the use of several roof materials, buildings tecniques, ventilation, evaporative cooling and reflective painting, ...

County roads represent an important share of the total extension of the road network in Rio Grande do Sul, one of the Brazilian states. In most municipalities, the activities of these roads take a significant part of ...

This paper presents the production process of a prototypical construction with reforestation wood, straw-clay blocks and vegetal tiles, built within the campus of the University of Sao Paulo, at Sao Carlos, SP. All process’ ...

Most counties of the state of Rio Grande do Sul do not use any type of traffic counting. Usually, the precarious management standard addopted by the counties does not ask for such data, which are essential for the ...

Based up on the Equivalent Temperature Index (ETI) developed by Baêta et al. (1987), a software called “PRÓ LEITE” was designed for totally confined lactating Holstein’s cows and was tested in this research for semi-confined ...

It was developed a architectonic model that reduces solar radiation into the facilities, using differentted solutions to the several plans of wrapper of construction. It was analyzed the shadow on the floor using an index ...

The effect of water flow rates on performance of pigs weaned at 28 days of age was studied. In Trial 1.96 pigs were allocated to eight 1.22 x 2.44 m pens with 2 drinkers per pen. In Trial 2.48 pigs were allocated to eight ...

This experiment was carried out from January 20th to February 20th, 1996, in order to evaluate the effect of the forced ventilation and evaporative cooling on the improvement of the thermal conditions on swine maternity. ...