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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Housing Construction"”.
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Custom residential housing construction : a case study.
… Builders, Inc. (a successful custom home construction firm in Gainesville, Florida). The goal was to broaden my technical engineering knowledge and gain practical construction experience. The majority of time was spent developing a critical path construction schedule for a typical home. …
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Vaulted Earthen Floor Systems for Low-Cost Housing Construction
… vaulted floor systems for low-cost residential construction. Typical structural floor systems consist of a reinforced concrete flat slab, which is problematic as concrete and steel are expensive, carbon-intensive materials. As urbanization rates increase globally, informal and structurally …
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Challenges to achieving sustainability in social housing construction in New Zealand
The housing crisis resulting in a lack of affordable housing has become an urgent problem that New Zealand faces due to various socio-economic and historical-political reasons. Social housing is one of the ways to address this problem and currently the country is experiencing a significant increase …
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Effective implementation of value engineering in the housing construction programmes of the UAE
… is one of the major challenges impacting the housing programmes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Therefore, this study was undertaken with the main aim of determining the impacts of the tools and principles of value engineering on public sector housing in the UAE. The study also aimed to …
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Interpretive investigation into the implementation of Sustainable Business Models within Saudi housing construction industry
Sustainable Practices (SPs) in the Housing Construction Industry (HCI) have been the subject of significant innovation, resolving housing problems and reducing the negative impacts of the built environment. These enhancements have targeted the value creation process. Addressing isolated parts of …
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Modernizing the passing joint : a standardized building system to facilitate contemporary bamboo housing construction in regions of economic constraint
… into the history of standard light frame wood construction and is therefore not used to its full potential, especially in regions of economic constraint in greatest need of housing structures. Can we design a light-frame construction system that allows for the non-standard nature of bamboo …
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An Investigation of the Utilisation and Barriers to the Social Acceptance of Alternative Building Technology in Housing Construction in South Africa
… a focus on Sandbag Building Technology (SBT) in housing delivery, are imperative to bridging the ever increasing deficit in housing provision in South Africa, which stands at about 2.2 million units. However, ABT's adoption is influenced by issues, and its promotion is a difficult task in South …
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The development and function of an affordable housing production ecosystem : Harlem, Hew York in the late 1990s and early 2000s
… late 1990s and early 2000s Harlem, an affordable housing production "ecosystem" comprised of elected officials, city planners, civic advocates, builders, and financial institutions at the local, state, and national level supported a reliable, systematic pipeline of new affordable housing …
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Developing framework for the reconstruction of housing for the internally displaced people due to conflict
… displaced people are facing is lack of decent housing which has exposed these group of people to all sort of environmental and man-made dangers such as rape, crime, child labour, prostitution and diseases, most especially women and children. Therefore, this research aims at developing a …
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The evaluation of forecasting techniques as applied to housing starts
… forecasting procedures used in forecasting housing construction. The forecasting models developed are compared on the basis of error variance and the number of times the forecast falls outside "± K" limits. The author points out that what is needed is a simple forecasting technique which …
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Process of designing city housing in Japan
… one design approach to providing more preferable housing for users in Japan. Chapter 1 gives an overview of trends in Japanese housing construction, describes user requirements, analyzes problems in a case study, and suggests fundamental principles of design to guide future design decisions. In …
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The entrepreneurial state : New York's Urban Development Corporation, an experiment to take charge of affordable housing production, 1968-1975
… supports the creation of most new affordable housing in the United States. Washington's subsidies, which fund housing construction, vouchers, and tax credits, are paired with local development groups, which select sites, design projects, and manage operations. Yet for decades, despite their …
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Technological rules and constraints affecting design of precast concrete housing
… technology is of great importance in multifamily housing. This technology provides the possibility to the industrialize housing construction and thus enhance the availability and quality of houses. With regard to the design process of precast concrete housing, architectural and technological …
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Alternative housing designs for changing life-styles in Japan
… Chapter 1 gives an overview of trends in housing construction and describes the user requirement profile with required floor area for each life stage. In Chapter 2, the underlying ideas of house, family and home in Japanese culture are analyzed to determine the factors which influence …
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An exploration of incremental architecture as an affordable development typology
Incremental approaches to housing construction have long been a typology used around the world. In the context of my work, I define incremental housing as a construction methodology that provides dwellers with the essential elements of a house, allowing the resident to rearrange the fundamental …
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Computerised scheduling and control of residential housing projects
… model for scheduling and control of residential housing projects. The model is designed using an Object-Oriented modeling approach and incorporates 18 classes that are designed to facilitate the scheduling and control of residential housing projects. The model also includes two newly developed …
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U.S. Bamboo house of the future : standardizing ecological living
… can be used for methods of prefabricated housing design within the United States. It also uses a "ht of parts" and describes two examples that exemplify good use of bamboo. While bamboo is increasingly being used as a source of material in many applications, including elements such as …
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The community-based partnership approach for affordable housing development : a case in Shenzhen, China
Affordable housing has been a crucial urban issue in China. Given its fast-paced urbanization process, China is experiencing a dramatic increase in the demand for affordable housing. At the same time, the affordable housing is in short supply due to the demolition of existing low-income housing …
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The design of a panelized roof system for residential construction
The cost of housing in the U.S. continues to rise faster than household income. Innovative building materials and construction technologies have the potential to reduce housing construction costs. One strategy to do this is componentization. There is a longstanding trend towards the increased use …
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Social policy and operations management
… on the main program that subsidizes affordable housing construction in the United States, a durable necessity that is unevenly available and exposed to environment risks across space. The core question is about patterns over space and time in building affordable housing stocks, relative to where …
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