Most water bodies suffer impacts from human actions, such as disordered use and occupation of soil, which comes from the disorderly growth of urban centers, considered one of the main causes of degradation of rivers and ...

Most of Brazilian cities have developed in a fast and non-planning way, which made the already existing problems even bigger, specially the infrastructure and the environment issues. The elevated urban growth rate in Brazil ...

Blast furnaces are continuous production equipment intended to melt and reduce iron ore in the presence of charcoal or coke and fluxes, for the production of pig iron. Maintaining the continuous supply of raw materials is ...

The discharge of urban and industrial effluents into the waters without adequate treatment, as well as the transport of sediments, mainly from agricultural areas, have altered the availability of water in quality and ...

The construction industry together with the mining sector, especially the areas responsible for the extraction of metallic substances, are currently directly responsible for a significant portion of the environmental impact ...

The improvement of processes and products has increased substantially, due to the competition established between organizations, expanding quality control and the search for process optimization. Among these processes, in ...

Brazilian public works are generally viewed negatively by the population, this image is mainly linked to construction stoppages, delays, extrapolation of costs and poor quality. Efficient project management has favored ...

The development of tools that assist in the integrated management of water resources, the environment and land use is important to meet the requirements of Law 9.433 / 1997 and the use of indicators applied to a geoenvironmental ...

Service management, with the objective of improving its efficiency and quality, finds in the Lean approach a possible solution to reduce waste and add value to customers. Within this process, the evaluation of tools that ...

A entrega de uma edificação ao proprietário não pode ser considerada como o final do processo construtivo, pois se o objetivo é gerar satisfação ao usuário e manter a vida útil projetada, o processo deve continuar com a ...