Construction and environment

The research titled "A study of the Lithgow New Government Office Development: using best practice to deliver sustainable developments" is based on the hypothesis that applying building industry’s best practice initiatives can deliver sustainability within the built environment. This hypothesis assumes links between the applied practices, the outcome achieved and sustainability.

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The purpose of this research was to study the level of appreciation executive and senior managers have towards the contribution person-environment (P-E) fit attributes, in particular the person-organisation (P-O) fit and person-job (P-J) fit attributes, have in describing the competency of a project manager from the perspective of executives and senior managers who, within their respective organisations, are responsible for the workplace management team that directly manages short and long-term projects.

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This study is focused on board members, their roles and the processes they employ in the NFP environment. In doing so, it seeks to understand board members’ behaviours, interactions and personal perspectives with respect to their roles. The study also considers the unique challenges board members encounter in the NFP context and how they deal with such challenges.

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This search resulted in the development of a practical software tool based on animated Venn diagrams (Dvenn) that attempted to exploit the inherent human ability to perceive quantities visually, a faculty described herein as visual numeracy. The exploitation of this faculty is considered here to be a valuable aid for group understanding of business presentation data. The development of the tool was an essential part of the research that was undertaken and the resulting software forms a significant portion of this practise based research.

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The purpose of this thesis is to explore how metaphor-based interactions can enhance the behavioural interactions in project environments to deliver better outcomes. It documents the processes and findings from an action research program to investigate the impact of combining metaphor, conversation and reflective practice techniques into a new model, the Reflective Performance Cycle (RPC) to stimulate richer and more productive interactions between project team members.

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This research is based on the hypothesis that applying building industry’s best practice initiatives can deliver sustainability within the built environment. This hypothesis assumes links between the applied practices, the outcome achieved and sustainability. This research tests this hypothesis with a single ‘critical’ case project; the recently constructed Lithgow Government Office Building (GOB) Development, and against a theoretical framework that defines sustainability.

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The study proposed the solutions to improve effectiveness in management of space, architecture, landscape in IZs in Hanoi with the aim of increasing the efficiency of land use, beautiful and uniform in the construction of buildings, good environment and comfortable facilities for IZs, towards Hanoi is the city of Green, Cultural, Civilization, Modern and Sustainable.

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The study showed that visitors came there three times in a week indicating 44% of the respondents while on maintenance of the park environment and the facilities indicated 94% and 88% of the respondents respectively.

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It aims to report current research work and latest development in the specialized areas of architecture, landscape architecture, applied arts and design, urban and regional planning, quantity surveying, building technology and engineering, construction management and other scholarly works related to the built environment.

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This issue (vol.6, no.1) of the Journal of Architecture, Planning and Construction Management (JAPCM), contains five research papers, all of which discuss the various issues and challenges pertaining to the built and natural environments.

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Research objectives: The thesis is focused on hydraulic calculation of small drainage works across of road such as: (step cascades, steep slope, velocity of soil scouring at culvert outlets and scour at culvert outlets). So that, Proposed solutions and selection methods to reinforced or choose the mitigating energy method relevant with downstream culverts on the roads; find solutions for small drainage works across the road with terrain characteristics matching the natural environment conditions and climate in Laos.

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At APEC Summit2 in Bogor (1994), APII was introduced as a cooperative framework of APEC member economies - in response to G7’s GII, Clinton Admin’s NII etc. At APEC TELMIN1 in Seoul (1995), the five objectives of APII were defined 1) construction of information infrastructure 2) technological cooperation 3) free flow of information 4) human resources development 5) creation of policy and regulatory environment APII Testbed Project, as a sub-policy for realization of APII, was co-proposed by Korea and Japan at APEC TEL12 (Shanghai, 1995)...

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