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Johnson Adetooto and Abimbola Windapo
There is a high level of homelessness in South Africa. Sandbag building technologies (SBTs) have been offered as economical and sustainable alternative building materials capable of speeding housing provision in South Africa. However, their degree of ado...
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Troy Capell and Iftekhar Ahmed
The purpose of this paper was to examine the community consultation practices carried out by implementing agencies when managing post-disaster housing reconstruction (PDHR) projects, identify the obstacles they face, and evaluate the effect these obstacl...
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Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Latiff, Aini Jaapar, Che Maznah Mat Isa
The urban public housing project, especially for low-income people, is essential to cater to the increasing urbanisation rate in Malaysia. This study aimed to gain an understanding of the project governance practices in urban public housing projects in M...
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Kevin Luna-Villareal, Eugenio Pellicer, Salvador García-Rodríguez
Pág. 133 - 144
Performance measurement in residential housing, at a company or project level, is usually assessed using financial performance indicators. There are other performance indicators that can be also applied to the construction industry. The literature review...
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Bernard Adjekophori,Sulaimon Olanrewaju Adebiyi
The capital market is unarguably the most robust institution in any economy notable for mobilizing the necessary fund for financing long-term productive project. It controls relatively large amounts of capital and represent the largest institutional prov...
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Victor Bunster and Masa Noguchi
Global increases in the demand for energy are imposing strong pressures over the environment while compromising the capacity of emerging economies to achieve sustainable development. In this context, implementation of effective strategies to reduce consu...
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J. H. Leibbrandt, C. J. Botha
The establishment of a new democracy has created high expectations amongst all the different communities of South Africa. The demand for basic essential services by the previously disadvantaged communities has increased drastically, whilst at the same ti...
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Lisa M. Tucker
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The history of the kitchen has received much attention from designers and design historians. Since the writings of Catharine Beecher, designers, household engineers, and others have written about the importance of the kitchen as the center of the home. T...
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Jason von Meding,Jamie Mackee,Thayaparan Gajendran
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It is with great pleasure that we would like to introduce this special issue of IJAR, a compilation of cutting-edge research that covers many of the key themes relevant to built environment researchers in disaster-related areas. This knowledge area is by...
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Harry Giles
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The paper describes research being carried out in relation to prefabricated high density affordablehousing under a grant from the Partnership for the Advancement of Technology in Housing(PATH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA. The obj...
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