Advisors: Rajib Mallick and Fred Hart Table of Contents Introduction 2 Goals: 2 Objectives: 2 Scope of Work 3 Chosen Credits 6 MR Credit 3: Recycled Content 6 MR Credit 4: Long Life Pavements 6 Life Cycle Analysis: 6 Construction Activity Pollution Prevention: 7 MR Credit 2: Construction Waste Management 7 Stormwater Management: 8 CI Credit 3 Visual Elements 9 CI Credit 2 Light Pollution 9 MFA Credit 3: Bicycle Lanes/Paths 10 MFA Credit 4: Bicycle Parking 10 MFA Credit 5: Bicycle Facility Design 10
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depleting resources for subsequent generations. Construction is an example of a multitasking activity. The lifecycle of construction can be broken into phases. Achieving building sustainability in modern environment requires a better understanding of environmental impacts. Impacts such as climate change‚ associated costs‚ as well as utilising benchmarking scale to measure across a whole range of building types and occupancies. This report will discuss building sustainability‚ the constraints that stake
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Portfolio construction models The project that we have done based on the Markowitz and Sharp methodologies that allow investors to build an efficient portfolio. An efficient portfolio is defined as the portfolio that maximizes the expected return for a given amount of risk (standard deviation)‚ or the portfolio that minimizes the risk subject to a given expected return. Markowitz method determines the asset allocation that produces the highest expected return for each unit of risk. The calculation
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INTRODUCTION Kazakhstan is a young country which declared itself an independent country on 16th of December in 1991. From 2000 to 2006‚ Kazakhstan experienced a high economic boom with an average annual growth rate of 10 percent. The export of hydrocarbon sector played a main role in extremely high economic growth. The exploration of crude oil increased from 26 million in 1991 to 76 million in 2009. In 2009‚ the hydrocarbon sector accounted for 60 percent of the country’s industrial output. In
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The “Social Construction of Reality” is a work of hypothetical reasoning to the redefine the task and to broaden its range to understand the redefining of sociological knowledge. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann both argue that reality is socially constructed by the knowledge of the people for social reality is produced and communicated amongst others. They emphasize on the fact that human is a part of a product of society and vice versa: society is a product of human. Berger and Luckmann follow
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Simon Thomson The construction of masculinity in Beowulf: hæleð under heofenum or selerædenne? As it opens‚ Beowulf appears to leap confidently‚ taking audience with narrator into the shared world of story with wit and certainty: Hwæt! We gardena in geardagum (l.1) Listen! We of the Spear Danes in the past days...1 Immediately‚ however‚ this certainty becomes qualified: we are not part of an admiring audience to the glittering past‚ and have not heard of the gardena themselves
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The Chartered Institute of Building CPD 24 Aug 2012 Environmental Living and Building Insulation – Revisited Presented by Mr Winston Lam‚ Envirobuilding Solutions 3 ft ? 20 ft ? 200 ft? Average emission factor of CO2 : 0.7kg CO2e per KWh Each tree can absorb 23kg of C02 throughout its life Building Energy Efficiency Ordinance (Cap. 610‚ Laws of Hong Kong SAR)‚ will be enforced on 21 September 2012. 1. Total annual electricity consumption of HK in
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ONEWAY Construction is facing possible action from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency after violating the terms of their beneficial use determination or BUD. “If somebody has a waste product that they’re essentially recycling‚ they can come in and get a beneficial use determination if they demonstrate that they’ve got a legitimate recycling process going on‚” Kyle Rominger‚ acting manager for the division of land and pollution control at the IEPA‚ said. “There’s conditions in the BUD
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identifying‚ monitoring and limiting risks. In some cases‚ the acceptable risk may be near zero. Risks can come from accidents‚ natural causes and disasters as well as deliberate attacks from an adversary. Risk management applied in the field of construction currently‚ has been on the agenda for about 25 years. It has focused in the main on large-scale School of technology and business 8 projects with different kinds of complexity related to them‚ such as Technology‚ international collaboration
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PROBLEMATISING ‘CROSS-CULTURAL’ COLLABORATION: CRITICAL INCIDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SETTINGS KATRIN KRAUS RONALD G. SULTANA Abstract – Many EU projects are premised on the assumption that collaboration between academics and students from different national contexts adds value to knowledge production and to learning. It is very rare to come across accounts of how challenging such cross-cultural collaboration can be‚ especially when the notion ‘culture’ is expanded to include both national and gendered
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