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Sustainability considerations have been suggested as key elements in Private Financing Initiative (PFI) projects in Malaysia. Notwithstanding, the sustainability is new in the Malaysian construction industry, let alone in PFI projects. This requirement has necessitated stakeholders in PFI projects to quickly learn sustainability and apply them accordingly. A research was mooted to observe and document...
The implementation of sustainable development influenced the practice of all business sectors including construction industry towards sustainable practices, which focus for the balance between economy, social and environment performances. In order to promote sustainable construction, there are several strategies which need to be considered. A large number of research has been conducted to investigate...
Rapid growth of construction projects have benefited mankind by providing social requirement like infrastructure, building etc as well contributing significantly in economic growth of country. At the same time is contributing significantly in generating high amount of construction waste, consuming resource excessively, and adverse impacts to environment, facing schedule delay and using excessive budget...
Community buildings are the second largest infrastructure asset owned by the governments in Australia. Mostly built in 1970s, these buildings have popularly seen significant deterioration of structure and service components, which stymied the delivery of essential services to the local communities. The sustainable management of these buildings is urgent and critical, which has to take into account...
Nowadays, new forms of virtual architecture are appearing as virtual worlds based on the Met averse concept are becoming increasingly more popular, holding all kind of virtual versions of human activities. This paper is a reflection on the features of these new architectures compared with their equivalents in the real world by means of an analysis through the prism of the three fundamental conditions...
The proposed investigation seeks to elaborate on the notion that the metaphor of skin(s), as assumed by contemporary digital design, have produced a conjuncture where the historical, the technical and discursive logics ordering modern tectonics, has been transcended, a condition that I will refer to as metatectonics. In addition to historiographic analysis of such condition, the project seeks to define...
The Educational Virtual Environment for Mathematics (EViE-m) is a virtual reality platform which supports mathematics education. By answering multiple-choice questions of various levels of difficulty, users gain access to VR world elements such as buildings and technology trees in order to construct organized virtual cities. The platform rewards users' ability/dexterity by providing access to even...
Digital education resource construction has got more and more attention of colleges. But how to carry out vocational education resource construction is still in an exploratory stage. Centered on domestic and international major resources construction projects, the paper analyzes the current situation and development trend of the operation mechanism of resource system, building ways of resources, and...
Annotation is a frequently used learning skill. When taking note, the reader only focuses on partial content of a topic or a segment. The note would be non-organized and piecemeal. Therefore, the relationship between topic and annotation would be lost or indirect including the relationship among annotations. Thus, because of the dispersion of annotations, readers would lose the structure of the content...
In this paper we present a comprehensive framework supporting the tasks of defining, retrieving, and importing Learning Objects (LOs) for personalized courses. It is partially implemented in a Moodle-based personalization system, where the instructional designer is guided through: 1) a theoretical specification of the needed LOs; 2) a retrieval function of actual LOs, by automatically querying standard-compliant...
Integrating CSCL activities is something that has been widely discussed in the CSCL community but as yet only implemented in a reduced set of domain specific tools. In this paper we propose the integration of a set of default and authoring CSCL tools into a standard LMS, as a complete sequence of learning activities based on a constructivist approach. An experiment was also carried out in order to...
The crypt of St. Nicholas in Bari, Southern Italy, is a building of cultural worldwide importance. Inside the crypt a mosaic develops on the apsidal floor and along a parietal seat placed along the apsidal masonry, in the form of cladding. A surviving portion of the mosaic pavement is also preserved in the right lateral chapel. Integrated non-destructive survey and laboratory analyses were undertaken...
As large consolidated data centers and cloud computing infrastructures proliferate worldwide in response to the continued global demand for information technology (IT) applications, there has been a renewed interest in understanding the environmental impacts of the data centers housing these IT services. A relatively understudied aspect of data center environmental assessments, however, is the variability...
Construction materials usually constitute a major portion of the total cost in a building construction project, which makes the control of this resource important. Despite the potential benefit of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), convincing construction organisations to embrace its use and implementation has proved a difficult task. This paper aims to present a review of the existing...
Many countries have introduced new rating tools over the past few years. Several researches have made international comparison of these sustainable rating tool [1], [2], [3]. However the comparison is for rating tools designed for temperate countries. Two new rating tools are now available for tropical countries i.e. BCA Green Mark in Singapore and the Green Building Index (GBI) in Malaysia. The rating...
Digital libraries (DL) are seen as the hope for developing countries in their struggle to access scientific and academic publications. However, building such libraries in developing countries is a real challenge. These countries usually face several difficulties, such as low computer and Internet penetration rates, poor ICT infrastructure, lack of qualified human resources, lack of financial resources,...
The earthquake disaster was a vast risk for a sustainable and harmonious societal and econonic development, so, it was effective methods to build a decision supporting system for earthquake disaster mitigation and preparation stratagem. A typical decision support system for Earthquake disaster mitigation was introduced in this paper. The principle, design criteria, structure, functions and application...
Less than 50% of consumers in North America are concerned about climate change. This is one of the conclusions drawn by a recent survey conducted by Nielsen Holdings N.V. Since consumers are less concerned, many companies in the United States and Canada have tended to pay less attention to international environmental initiatives as they evolved. It is hardly a surprising fact then that more and North...
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...
The tendency toward sustainable construction development becomes more obvious than ever before. In this paper, from introduction to the sustainable design progress which is fundamental to consider some key concepts about how green design strategies formed, to PepsiCo set a better practice in Chongqing for sustainable design and how to connect with building information modeling to achieve the most...
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