Providing an objective measurement of environmental quality in public tendering
A public developer must put out to tender the design and construction of a housing project and wants to take into account sustainability criteria in the selection of bids. ITeC has proposed a set of administrative clauses for rewarding environmental quality both at project and execution stages. In order to avoid value judgements in the comparison of offers, each bidder is asked to provide an explicit calculation of the environmental impact of the materials chosen for the structure of the building, and then a formula provides a score.
Index of operating costs for housing rental
Housing rental is gradually gaining market share in Spain, and this is increasing the need for keeping track of the operating costs borne by the landlords. This report has built a historical series that compiles the whole range of expenditures that landlords need to face to bring their properties to the market. It includes both the binding costs and also the non-binding costs that are nevertheless required to remain competitive.
Assessment on the price offered for the supply of some construction elements
A public body has issued an invitation to tender for the purchase of some construction elements. After receiving the proposals, the contracting authority has doubts about whether one of the offers could be abnormally low, and has asked ITeC to verify whether the elements proposed by this supplier would or would not meet the requirements set in the tender specifications.
Bimdustry 4.0 Project: BIM in the industry of construction products
Consultancy for companies that produce buildings equipment products and need to integrate their offer into the collaborative digital methodologies that are coming rushing in the construction market. The objective is to familiarize these companies with the state of the art of BIM from the point of view of the equipment suppliers (software and interoperability, standards of creation of objects, dissemination platforms) and make the pool of experts of the project available to design with them a tailored strategy (training, digitalization, prescription, compatibility with other processes).
Support for the implementation of an ISO 9001 quality system in a company in the door business
Based on the results of a preliminary audit of the company, ITeC has designed a quality management system. All the processes have been identified, and a proposal for each one has been prepared and brought up to discussion with the responsible people in the company to make sure that it fits their real needs. The implementation has been a seven-month long process, concluding with a final evaluation for checking whether the system would pass an external audit as per UNE EN ISO 9001:2015.
ITeC Impulsa: support in the search for private investment for circular economy initiatives in the construction sector
ITeC Impulsa has received a series of innovative business proposals aimed at the circular economy under construction and has shorlisted those with a higher potential. It has collaborated with the selected ones to write a technical documentation package that will help in the process of search for private investors. This documentation includes an assessment of the project and its financial needs, and also the development of a business plan. Finally, potential investors have been identified and they have been given a summary of the opportunities identified in each project.
White Paper on the implementation strategy of BIM in the regional administration of Catalonia
It is an orientation tool for the task of introducing the use of BIM in the building, renovation and civil engineering projects developed by the Catalan regional government. It is not a regulatory document, but a reference for each of the departments and organizations with a role in construction, to be used for charting their own BIM roadmap according to their needs and human and material resources.
Evaluation of the bids submitted to build a municipal facility
On the one hand, there will be a review of the budgetary and programming part of each offer, warning against too excessively low bids and reviewing how each bidder justifies them. In addition, those issues that are less quantifiable and require a value judgment will be submitted to a committee of experts in different disciplines: execution, environmental impact, health and safety...
Technological trends that will shape the construction sector
The current comfort zone of the construction sector will not last too long: concentrating only on the project and the execution will not be enough and we will have to cover the whole lifespan; collaborative models will question the compartmentalization between designers, customers, builders and suppliers; environmental demands will not be limited to energy control. If the sector becomes permeable, responsibilities are shared and demands grow, it will be essential to have substantial digital foundations.
Assessment of prefabricated stairways
Application of the European protocols for assessment and production control of prefabricated stairway kits in which the manufacturer provides a complete constructive solution (steps, strips, landings, barriers, handrails) that does not participate in the loadbearing structure of the building. It contemplates issues such as mechanical resistance, safety in use and in case of fire, durability and health.
