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Agrofood
October 16th, World Food Day: #ZeroHunger
#ZeroHunger is the motto for the World Food Day that is celebrated on October 16 leaded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) worldwide. #ZeroHunger is also part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the World Health Organization...
Tell me what you eat… and I will tell you if it is good for our planet
We are increasingly aware of the food that we eat, the nutrition intake that food brings and the impact of our shopping and consumption habits have on the planet. That is as it should be. The food we consume, that is, our dietary habits, contributes in one degree or...

Energy & Environment
PLADEMI: access to energy services for development in Ibero-America
Universal acces to sustainable energy is an indisputable objective for the human development and the fight against poverty. Electrical energy services are vital "satisfiers" of human needs such as cooking and refrigeration, lighting, heating, trasnport, communication,...
BIM for renovation?
New European directives on energy efficiency, targeting a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be achieved by 2023, are triggering deep renovation building projects, which are largely responsible for these emissions. This high demand for the...

Environment
A journey back in time through the woods
Forest fire in Bitterroot
Closing the water loop in industry: management and savings
Water is essential for human survival and well-being and plays an important role for many economic sectors. However, water resources are unevenly distributed in space and time, and are under pressure from human activity and economic development. In addition to water...

Industry
Industry 5.0, seriously?
It seems unbelievable, but 5 years have passed since CARTIF inaugurated the blog with the post on Industry 4.0 in which I analysed some of the keys to the so-called “fourth industrial revolution” and how it could affect the industry in our country. It has always...
IoT technology to improve the efficiency of industrial companies
With the promise of 75 billion devices connected to the Internet around the world in 2025, the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) opens the door to a future of opportunities for companies to optimize their processes, whether in the form of manufacturing their products,...

Health & Quality of life
Medicine and Engineering: sentenced to be understood
The tools that engineering provides to the medicine are a fundamental pillar. The mathematical and computational modeling is essential to the generation of new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of diseases. Behind many of the medicine advances there is an...
Did Nikola Tesla open a door to accessibility? (II)
In my last post, published last week, I made a collection with the most interesting definitions of "Internet of things" or this "connected world" accesible for everyone without discrimination because of economic, social or functional diversity reasons. At the sprint...

Construction and Heritage
When the historic buildings talk (IV)
In two previous blogs of 'When the Historic Buildings Talk' (2) and (3), we have described how does affect and what is the importance of monitoring temperature and humidity as well as lighting (natural and artificial) in historic buildings. To complete this saga of...
When the historic buildings talk (II)
In a previous post the social and economic importance of heritage conservation were already described. Also we promised that on successive posts we will go into more detail describing the three main aspects that need to be monitored to ensure such conservation....

Digitalization
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