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A tremendous demand of development worldwide has gained interest of Malaysian construction firms to venture into international construction domain. Identifying and analyzing major determinants of the firm's internal and external factors are crucial in order to ease the complexity in global market expansion. This paper identifies the relative importance of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and...
Today most projects fail to deliver on time for various reasons. Reasons could be scope creep, unclear requirements, lack of right resources/budget etc. For project success it is essential to get buy-in from all stakeholders involved directly or indirectly. Different stakeholders are involved at different phases of a project. Though they are involved later, we still need to take their inputs at project...
How does a warehouse pertain to the relief efforts before or during disasters? The need to supply goods and services to help individuals that have lost homes, cars, personal belongings, loved ones or even jobs is important. The goods can consist of medical supplies, food, clothes, blankets and other non perishable goods. These goods need to be stored in a safe and accessible environment. By definition...
Recently, the development of the private enterprises attracts more and more concerns from all over the society, many private enterprises use diversification strategy to make enterprises bigger and stronger. This paper based on the Resources Based View and Transaction Cost Theory, from the aspects of micro, medium and macroscopic, analyze the diversified behavior of shenzhen and shanghai exchanges...
The paper introduces the status, problems which exist in project cost information management in China, and introduces how to manage construction cost information in the United States and Britain. It explores the mode of project cost information management in China and last puts forward the countermeasures of project cost information management.
As interests in the impacts of business activities on environment have been growing, environmental policy is now shifting from the “end of pipe” stage to the next stage, “cleaner production”, which factor in the life cycles, and social efficiency. Since the early 90's, the concept of cleaner production has been recognized and promoted. An increasing trend in environmental departments of state and...
Ecological supply chain is an improvement to traditional supply chain according to ecological thinking. There are four sub-systems in ecological supply chain, i.e. production system, consumption system, social system and environmental system. The formation of ecological supply chain is the interacting result of various factors, which not only include pressures from government, customer and other stakeholders,...
This paper first examined the present situation on the global energy and the building energy consumption in China, then discussed the importance of building energy efficiency (abbr. BEE). Used for reference the certificate-rating system of BEE in abroad, the authors proposed to set up the similar system in building marketplace in China. Countered the information dispersive status of BEE, the authors...
A contribution from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, not subject to copyright. All views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and of others to whom attribution is given and are not necessarily those of NIST nor of any of the institutions cited therein. Certain commercial equipment, instruments, or materials are identified in this paper to specify experimental or...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
In this paper, the concept and primary design principles of ecological supply chain (ESC) are discussed. And the paper shows that companies can gain economical, social and environmental efficiencies simultaneously from implementing ecological supply chain management (ESCM). The cooperation processing based on by-product exchange in ESC is discussed with the decision-making criterion of eco-efficiency...
In the first part of the paper, the authors briefly review progress of different research initiatives on electronic waste or ldquoe-wasterdquo. In the second part, they discuss trans-boundary system for the 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) management of electronic waste. The authors maintain that there are several important factors that lead to the successful development of a trans-boundary system....
Energy is the bedrock of our daily lives and industry. Now is the time that industry, government and academia must join together and examine highly independent, fully environmentally considerate and rational energy systems. In this presentation, recent Japanese policy will be introduced focusing on new national energy strategy. Looking at future technology trends, it is probable that, in the case...
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