The Need for Life-Cycle Assessment in Buildings Although LCA has been widely used in the building sector since 1990‚ and is an important tool for assessing buildings [29]‚ it is less developed than in other industries‚ including perhaps the engineering and infrastructure sector. The building industry‚ governments‚ designers and researchers of buildings are all affected by the trend of sustainable production and eco-green strategies. The importance of obtaining environment-related product information
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The term blue collar jobs covers an entirely range of jobs that perform manual labor‚ these jobs can be skilled or unskilled. Other places paid by blue collar staff is in construction‚ maintenance‚ engineering or other kind of work where manual physical labor is necessary. Blue collar staff are normally paid an hourly wage instead of white collar workers such as clerk jobs who are employed in an office environment who will be paid a regular monthly or yearly salary. So what kinds of jobs are available
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Vacant Properties and Their Negative Impact on Neighborhoods Vacant properties are an all too common occurrence in neighborhoods today as vacancy rates have increased to over 11% (“Housing units summary‚” 2012). With homeowners’ finances in a downward spiral many people are forced to walk away from their homes. Abandonment will often leave the properties empty for months‚ if not years‚ as the banks try to recoup their money. During this time the innocent members of the community are forced to
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HATA 4 Essay October 2011 Architecture as a Means of Upliftment in South Africa‚ post-apartheid Introduction The end of Apartheid allowed for “new ways of describing public institutions” according to Jo Noero‚ in an interview for the Small Scale‚ Big Change exhibition. And as a result‚ architecture can be seen as a means of cultural upliftment in post-apartheid South Africa. So the question is‚ how does architecture affect social change and identity in this country? This a two-fold question
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E FFECTIVENESS OF INDUSTRIALISED BUILDING SYSTEM (IBS) IMPLEMENTATION FOR MALAYSIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY MARDHIAH BINTI ZAWAWI A project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Science (Construction Management) Faculty of Civil Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia NOVEMBER 2009 A BSTRACT Generally‚ the used of Industrialised Building System (IBS) in construction industry throughout the world has positive perceptions
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Every city has own style of architecture. Buildings actually is a face of every country and city. Of course‚ in every city there are old buildings and new ones. There is a question‚ whether a city should preserve its old‚ historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings. One group of people is sure‚ that government has to save old buildings. The other group of people thinks‚ that it is better to build new buildings. I have to say‚ that relate myself to the first group of
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Buildings are such an important part of living the life that without buildings‚ people are completely helpless. They won’t be able to live‚ they won’t be able to work because there won’t be any offices‚ and children won’t be able to study correctly because without buildings there won’t be any institutes‚ schools. Buildings are everything people need to study‚ work and live. Nowadays‚ the amount of people are increasing day by day and they are required spaces to live‚ work‚ study etc. So the government
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A Report On The Globalization of the Construction Industry “How has globalization impacted on the construction industry in terms of issues such as: structure‚ characteristics of the industry and individual firms‚ building cycles and forecasting the future direction of the overall economy and the construction industry in particular”. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 Executive Summary 2.0 Introduction 3.0 Globalization 4.0 Structure 4.1 The Global Construction Industry 4.2 Issues
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CHAPTER 1 1. INTRODUCTION People nowadays are more concern about the environmental since they know the effect of pollution to the environment and to human’s health. Usually the conventional building used a lot of amount of power and produced large amount of carbon dioxides annually. Therefore‚ conventional building is one of the sources of global warming. Green building concept is an effort made to reduce the impacts of conventional building. Green building is a space and energy efficient home
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1.0 INTRODUCTION InterservePlc is a services‚ maintenance and building company based in the UK with revenue of £1.9bn with a workforce of 50‚000 people worldwide. The company is primarily engaged in providing building and maintenance services for its clients. It also offers services such as consulting‚ equipment hiring‚ project and facilities services. It provides these services for a varietyof infrastructure such as waterworks‚ roads‚ bridges‚ industrial plant‚ airports‚ shopping centres‚ offices
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