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Glogarová, Tereza. "Posouzení vlivu územního plánování na cenu pozemků v Bernarticích nad Odrou." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233182.
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This thesis deals with the impact of a planning on land prices in the village Bernartice nad Odrou. A theoretical basis for an evaluation of an immovable property is described, then a documentation of the planning in the village is analysed and in the end, an evaluation via a case study of two selected lands is made. Both of these lands are evaluated by a determined price and a usual price in the three levels according to the conditions of a local plan. There are levels using plots such as an agricultural land, a land designed for building-up according to the local plan and a building land. The evaluation is based on calculation results in the particular phases. Finally, results justification is presented.
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Bacon, Kevin L. Jr. "Terra fluxus urban design in the wake of deindustrialization /." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24723.
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Balarinová, Pavla. "Posouzení vlivu územního plánování na ceny pozemků ve městě Žďár nad Sázavou a jeho okolí." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233102.
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This thesis addresses the changes in land-use planning and their overall impact on the final price of land. Selected sites are in locations Dolní Rožínka and Žďár nad Sázavou, in the local area Stržanov. Both plots are established and customary prices recorded for individual phases of spatial planning. These phases are divided into agricultural land, other land-use plan that is designed for building and land intended to be built according to zoning. Final evaluation determines how different land prices in the three phases of spatial planning and price comparison of the two plots each other in different locations.
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Jurčová, Anna. "Posouzení vlivů ÚP na cenu pozemků v Otrokovicích a Napajedlích." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-399605.
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The aim of this thesis is to assess and interpret the impact of spatial planning on the prices of selected plots in Napajedla and Otrokovice. In order to achieve this goal, the appropriate sites were selected and simulated to be located both in non-construction areas and in built-up areas according to different levels of spatial planning. The plots were considered as agricultural land for construction and construction. The valuation was made using the price determined by means of a valuation decree and also the price usual by direct comparison. Prices of compared land were obtained from realized purchase contracts from the real estate cadastre and from offers from real estate servers. In conclusion, the results in both cities will be compared and the factors influencing the results will be evaluated.
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Kvapil, Radek. "Posouzení vlivu územního plánování na ceny pozemků ve Vysokém Mýtě." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232860.
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This diploma thesis deals with the change in the price of land, depending on its determination in ground plan and also on the method of use in location Průhony in Vysoké Mýto. The first part describes the methods of real estate assessing, and consequently, ground planning is outlined. The second part in concerned with the description of Vysoké Mýto and real estate investment opportunities in close neighbourhood. The practical part is focused on setting prices of various lands in relation to its potential. To end up, historical price development in location Průhony is discussed.
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Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh. "Designed superlattices : from lattice matched to lattice mismatched building blocks /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1417810791&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-231). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Gouasmia, Abdelhacine. "Seismic response of reinforced concrete structures designed using North American building codes." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5467.
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Eren, Yasemin. "Exploring The Potential Of Mat-building For The Creation Of Universally Designed Environments." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605004/index.pdf.
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EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF MAT-BUILDING FOR THE CREATION OF UNIVERSALLY DESIGNED ENVIRONMENTS
Eren, Yasemin
M. Arch., Department of Architecture
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Aközer Co-Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Halime Demirkan June 2004, 152 Pages The goal of this study is to reread the strategies of formal organization in architecture, which are called &ldquo
mat-building&rdquo
and &ldquo
mat-urbanism&rdquo
, exploring their potential to contribute to the creation of universally designed built environments in the 21st century. The idea of mat-building was first delineated by Alison Smithson in 1974, in her article &ldquo
How to Recognize and Read Mat-Building,&rdquo
by means of its traditional and modern examples. The concept of universal design was first used in 1970&rsquo
s and reinterpreted by the American architect Ronald Mace in 1985. Since then, it has become a widely accepted design approach that is also known as &lsquo
inclusive design&rsquo
and &lsquo
design for all&rsquo
. Mat-building can be considered as a viable design approach that can respond to the crucial need for equally accessible, adjustable and adaptable built environments for all people all over the world. The study aims not only to evaluate the exemplary mat like configurations in light of the universal design principles. It also tries to point to the new ways for developing creative ideas and design theories, and emphasizes the significance of implementing the universal design approach in contemporary architecture and urbanism.
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Brant, Jacilynn A. "Toward the synthesis of designed metal-organic materials." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002612.
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Wakida-Kusunoki, Fernando T. "Potential nitrate leaching from house building to groundwater." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251274.
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Cooper, Justine. "Sustainable building maintenance within social housing." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2015. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/13830/.
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The social housing sector contains the largest number of professionally managed properties and as such has a significant role to play in improving the UK’s economic, environmental and social sustainability. This thesis explores the viability of integrating the sustainability agenda with social housing maintenance decision making in order that the sustainability of existing social housing stock can be improved through planned maintenance (and refurbishment). The thesis presents the argument that the current single criterion, conditioned based approach to maintenance planning does not support the continuous improvement in sustainability of social housing. Furthermore it argues that a new, multi-criteria approach to maintenance planning is needed based upon the performance of a home in-use rather than its condition. The performance based sustainable social housing maintenance model was presented and its application explored with Octavia Housing. Two aspects were further explored, firstly what criteria did landlords need to assess to ensure sustainability was systematically integrated into maintenance planning, and secondly, how could this multi-criteria be assimilated in order to prioritise maintenance actions to improve the sustainability rating of housing going forward. The questionnaire determined that traditional social housing maintenance was still the norm and whilst the sustainability agenda was considered important, it wasn’t integrated within housing management planning. The interviews determined the criteria landlords wished to use to assess the sustainability of their housing stock and prioritise maintenance need, exceeded that expressed in the Decent Homes Standard but, more importantly the specific criteria was unique to individual landlords and no definitive list of criteria required. The case study demonstrated that the proposed maintenance model could be implemented and presented a methodology by which it could be populated. An important aspect of the new maintenance model was the development of the Analytical Hierarchy Process modelling toolkit to measure the sustainability of the existing stock and prioritise maintenance work to improve this measure over time through planned maintenance. Whilst the model was based on data collected in the field, the worked example was theoretical and provides an opportunity for further work with Octavia Housing.
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Foster, Chad Ryan. "Combining adaptive and designed statistical experimentation : process improvement, data classification, experimental optimization and model building." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49559.
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Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references.
Research interest in the use of adaptive experimentation has returned recently. This historic technique adapts and learns from each experimental run but requires quick runs and large effects. The basis of this renewed interest is to improve experimental response and it is supported by fast, deterministic computer experiments and better post-experiment data analysis. The unifying concept of this thesis is to present and evaluate new ways of using adaptive experimentation combined with the traditional statistical experiment. The first application uses an adaptive experiment as a preliminary step to a more traditional experimental design. This provides experimental redundancy as well as greater model robustness. The number of extra runs is minimal because some are common and yet both methods provide estimates of the best setting. The second use of adaptive experimentation is in evolutionary operation. During regular system operation small, nearly unnoticeable, variable changes can be used to improve production dynamically. If these small changes follow an adaptive procedure there is high likelihood of improvement and integrating into the larger process development. Outside of the experimentation framework the adaptive procedure is shown to combine with other procedures and yield benefit. Two examples used here are an unconstrained numerical optimization procedure as well as classification parameter selection. The final area of new application is to create models that are a combination of an adaptive experiment with a traditional statistical experiment.
(cont.) Two distinct areas are examined, first, the use of the adaptive experiment to determine the covariance structure, and second, the direct incorporation of both data sets in an augmented model. Both of these applications are Bayesian with a heavy reliance on numerical computation and simulation to determine the combined model. The two experiments investigated could be performed on the same physical or analytical model but are also extended to situations with different fidelity models. The potential for including non-analytical, even human, models is also discussed. The evaluative portion of this thesis begins with an analytic foundation that outlines the usefulness as well as the limitations of the procedure. This is followed by a demonstration using a simulated model and finally specific examples are drawn from the literature and reworked using the method. The utility of the final result is to provide a foundation to integrate adaptive experimentation with traditional designed experiments. Giving industrial practitioners a solid background and demonstrated foundation should help to codify this integration. The final procedures represent a minimal departure from current practice but represent significant modeling and analysis improvement.
by Chad Ryan Foster.
Sc.D.
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Hellier, Cathleene Betz. "Private Land Development in Williamsburg, 1699-1748: Building a Community." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625487.
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Arkani, Sepideh. "Contractual interfaces : the implications of building production process management and interorganisational relations for productivity in building project coalitions." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 1999. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/5706/.
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The aim of this study is to explore the nature of productivity problems in building project coalitions arising from contractual interfaces and conflict. The study investigates the impact of contractual interfaces on the emergence of conflict in both the interorganisational relations of the contracting parties and the operational context of the building production process management. It analyses the dynamics of conflict in the behaviour and performance of the project participants to establish a link between conflict and productivity problems. The focus of the study is the interface between the mechanical and electrical (M&E) contractor and the main contractor. The interface between the main contractor and the client, as well as the design team members, is examined in so far as it affects the relationship between the main and the M&E contractor. The investigation reveals conflict as a potentially creative or destructive behavioural process that emanates from competition between the economic interest of the client and the professional/commercial interests of the consultants and contractors, in conjunction with low levels of trust. In so far as the building production process requires the inputs of all the participants, i.e., the client, the consultants and the contractors, competition gives rise to negotiati6ns. As long as the negotiations comprise integrative bargaining, conflict is creative and results in collective problem solving. In the presence of low levels of trust as reliability or predictability, the more powerful party resorts to strategies of control, domination or manipulation to pursue its own interests at the expense of those of others. Thus negotiations become distributive and conflict becomes dysfunctional. The weaker negotiating party either resists the strategies of power of the more dominant party by applying discretion in the use of their knowledge, and by matching their level of effort to rewards, or capitulates. The level of resistance or capitulation of the weaker party is dependent on their relative size and financial strength compared to those of the dominant party. The study indicates that the nature and level of conflict has a direct impact on the level of motivation, performance and consequently the productivity of the project participants. The investigation finds that conflict is inherent to the contracting system and needs to be managed (Lavers, 1992; Smith, 1992; Langford et ai, 1992). It finds that building project coalitions are organised as networks at the start of the project but may be transformed into political organisations during the project life-cycle (Mintzberg, 1991 (d): 374; Pfeffer, 1981 : 27-9). The imprecise definitions of functions and activities contained in the contractual documents provide the grounds for and facilitate the political activity of the project participants. The investigation therefore supports Clegg' s (1992) postulation that 'contractual documents provide the constitutional and constitutive grounds and framework within which the meaning of the contract is negotiated, contested, and contained' (Clegg, 1992: 135). The opportunistic interpretations resulting negotiations over the meaning of the contract (Tavistock Institute, 1966) very often impecle the full or effective enforcement of the contractual functions and activities, thus reinforce conflictual behaviour. The project managers' capability to manage conflict, though important in terms of preventing escalation of conflict, is indicated to have limited impact on performance levels of project participants. The research concludes that the economic and legal governance structures in the wider business context of building production processes do not foster fair, co-operative and non-confrontational exchange relations (Lane and Bachmann, 1996), and do not appear to discourage the imposition of onerous business agreements by the economically more powerful on those more dependent. It therefore suggests that fundamental changes in both governance structures of building project coalitions as well as attitudes of project coalition representatives are required as the means by which productivity improvements may be carried out.
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Neufeld, Angela. "Building a norm: the banning of anti-personnel landmines /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2447.
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JIANG, JING. "Topologically Designed Cylindrical and Spherical Building Blocks to Construct Modular-Assembled Structures in Giant Shape-Amphiphiles." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1523855196482307.
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Leibbrandt, Amy Elizabeth. "Architecture without Land : access to land, secured with land tenure as development strategy in critical neighbourhoods, in South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63679.
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Architecture without Land postulates the role
of architecture without the promise of the
ownership of land. It investigates the provision of
land, secured with land tenure, as a development
strategy in critical neighbourhoods, specifi cally
Westbury, Johannesburg. It is situated within
the urban land question and opportunity of land,
characterised by continual redevelopment within
strict urban boundaries and multiplicity of use,
and addresses the fragments of apartheid city
planning, particularly the question of ownership
of land.
Title deeds are not always practical or
appropriate solutions. Fixed ownership could
stagnate the process of continual redevelopment
of land and hence of the social development in
a low income neighbourhood. The opportunity
of land tenure, as opposed to ownership, aids
fl exibility and appropriation by tenants including
the continual redevelopment of a site. Tenure of
land, allows the tenant organisation to expand,
insert or subtract their built manifestation
in relationship to their economic conditions,
reducing ineffi cient land use.
This approach responds to change in mainly two
ways; internal changeability (Architecture host to
change) and external changeability (Land host
to change). Land host to change; orders the
permanent (stable) built fabric, predetermining
structure, service and external space. Tenant
dependency on stable built fabric (architecture as
method) is articulated in a scale understanding
of facility and connection (service point). This
interaction is expressed in use of space, fi t-out,
infi ll and/or insert with the condition of easy
removal at end of use.
Access to land and space are vital to the project
as poverty is deeply spatial and ownership of
land intertwined with the legacy of apartheid.
This dissertation will focus on the appropriation
of land, tested with social infrastructure such
as early childhood development, mothers
training, shisa nyama, a medical unit supported
by affordable rental housing, hosted in a 66m
by 36m land parcel, supporting compact city
development and densifi cation in the suburb of
Westbury Johannesburg.Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2018.
Architecture
MArch (Prof)
Unrestricted
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Allen, Nick B. (Nicholas Bradley). "Terra ex machina : land building and the breach of property regimes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111350.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Land building is the infilling of littoral or wetlands systems with developable dryland. It has long been used by state actors to overcome territorial constraints and conquer "wastelands" for economic development, but is increasingly used for large-scale, privately-financed real estate development. For these projects, land building is especially advantageous to both state and development interests because it can bypass traditional land acquisition and because it is unencumbered by prior legal claims, uses, or ecological functions. Compared to inland property, the relative mobility of built land makes it better suited to market-led development. This thesis frames land building as a "geo-hack": it exploits a false premise of planning and property regimes - that land is fixed in place and quantity - and thereby circumvents both. This work situates offshore land building on the Malay Peninsula within its history of land alienation, the practice of expanding commercial landholdings by extinguishing customary land uses and ecological functions. Focusing on the peninsular state of Johor, I analyze tensions between the agrarian property regime created by land alienation and recent real estate development pressures. I then turn to the case of Forest City, a large-scale real estate development being built in the straits between Johor and Singapore. By exploiting Malaysian land alienation procedures, the developer fully captures an unexploited rent gap and the state government avoids directly contending with social costs that usually accompany large-scale real estate development. However, my thesis shows that these gains are realized only by overwriting existing production regimes and exposing all actors to global market risks.
by Nick B. Allen.
M.C.P.
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Owen, Gareth A. "Interorganisational trust-building following the 2008 financial crisis." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/98254/.
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This thesis is a qualitative study of a group of leaders from the Westminster Parliament, the Financial Services Authority and three UK high street banks following the 2008 financial crisis and has been undertaken to further our understanding of interorganisational trust. The study is ethnographically informed, but makes significant use of focus group and interview data. It also uses data collected from Treasury Select Committee meetings and other publications relating to the policy debate following the publication of the draft Independent Commission on Banking Report in April 2011. There is currently a gap in our knowledge about how interpersonal trust relates to trust between organisations. There has been a good deal of empirical work on interpersonal trust between individuals and within organisations; on the other hand, our understanding of interorganisational trust tends to be more theoretical, lacking the same breath of empirical work that has been undertaken on interpersonal trust. This thesis attempts to better understand interorganisational trust building by using what we know from the trust literature. It then proposes a practice-based approach to studying trust-building to address the challenge we face in conceptualising trust coherently at micro and macro levels together, moving our understanding beyond thinking about trust as a construct or as existing at a level. The thesis firstly identifies three practices that help us better understand how trust-building takes place in the complexity of the interorganisational system. The first of these practices is storytelling, the second is curating space, the third is managing knowledge flows. The thesis secondly proposes that understanding individual and organisational actors as occupying a liminal state, existing in a state of being both individual and organisational actors. This allows us to begin to consider trust-building as both a micro and macro concern at once and provides fresh insight into trust-building.
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Haines, Timothy Daniel. "Building the Empire, building the nation : water, land and the politics of river development in Sind 1898-1969." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/131eccc5-0dda-22dd-5f83-61deaccd07ac/9/.
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Major attempts to control the natural environment characterized government ‘developmental' activity in twentieth-century Sind. This thesis argues that the construction of three barrage dams across the River Indus, along with a network of irrigation canals, enacted human control over nature as a political project. The Raj and its successor state in Sind, Pakistan, thereby claimed legitimacy through their capacity to benefit humans by re-modelling the landscape. These claims depended on an implied narrative of material progress, which irrigation development was expected to bring about, in a province considered technologically and socially backward. In allocating land that was newly made available for cultivation, government officials found an unprecedented opportunity to also re-shape agrarian society. As well as providing the means by which ‘ideal types' of cultivator could be encouraged to proliferate, the development of Sind's irrigation system was based on concepts of modernization that promoted increasing state intervention in agrarian life to render a ‘disordered' society more easily governable. This trend was constrained, however, by successive administrations' need to balance the lure of radical modernization against the powerful claims on new land of local magnates. The colonial belief in the agricultural, economic, and social benefits of large-scale irrigation projects was transplanted into the post-colonial state. The construction of irrigation works, the colonization of land, and their political implications before and after Independence are therefore analyzed, in order to demonstrate how and why the logic of large infrastructure schemes remained consistent. At the same time, differences in how successive administrations framed and enacted barrage projects are shown to have depended on contemporary circumstances. In the process, the thesis sheds new light on the tensions between and within the central and provincial governments, demonstrating the contested nature of concepts of Imperial governance, nation-building, and material progress.
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White, Jennifer A. "An investigation into the parameters that contribute to the gap between the designed and as-built thermal performance of British housing." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14408/.
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The UK Government has placed the need to reduce national energy demands and carbon emissions at the forefront of the political agenda, with a commitment made to meet EU targets of 20% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy consumption, alongside a 20% improvement in overall energy efficiency, across all EU Member States, by 2020. Building performance has been identified as a key area where significant progress towards meeting these ambitions can be made. It is fundamental to ensure that the building fabric of a property functions correctly in order to achieve high levels of thermal effectiveness, which should result in lower energy demands and carbon emissions. However, research to date shows that a gap exists between predicted and actual performance levels. This research utilises the dwelling Heat Loss Coefficient (HLC) as a common output in design stage and post-construction evaluation techniques, that can be used to compare predicted and measured fabric performance. The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP), coheating tests, air pressure tests and thermal imaging are used to evaluate in-situ buildings. Sensitivity analysis and controlled conditions experiments are utilised in order to investigate the reliability of the assessment techniques used. The key findings from the study include the demonstration, through novel coheating test, that post-installation mechanically ventilated heat recovery (MVHR) system efficiency levels can have a pronounced effect on the measured HLC, and, in conjunction with use of assumed theoretical efficiency levels, can cause divergence in theoretical and measured data of 10-15%. This can largely be resolved through correct design, installation and commissioning. Environmental conditions, both notional and site-specific, can also cause divergence in the HLC data, including wind speed (15%) and solar gains (10-26%). In addition, it has been shown that, when considering thermal bridging values, inaccurate calculation at the design-stage and poor attention to detail during construction could cause underperformance in this element by up to 50%. This is of significance as there are currently no mandatory procedures to assess post-construction compliance with thermal bridging levels specified within the UK Building Regulations.
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Fung, King-yat Eric. "An empirical study of effect of land lease terms on the residential property prices." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholars Hub, 2006. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B37937753.
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Connaughton, John Noel. "Making and implementing industrial building investment decisions." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 1993. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/6136/.
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This thesis aims to increase current understanding of the ways in which large firms make and implement industrial building investment decisions. The study reported involved an investigation, from the corporate perspective, of the decision and implementation stages of capital investment projects in two large UK firms. The orientation of the study is towards a consideration of investment decision making and implementation as a problem for management involving a process of resource allocation occurring over time and throughout the corporate organisation. Drawing on research in the business administration area of social science, the process model of resource allocation by Bower (1970) is used as a conceptual framework and to suggest propositions for study which direct attention at key features of the process. By viewing corporate capital investment decision making and implementation within this framework - and as part of an in-depth, case-based, exploratory research strategy - rather than in terms of its financial or economic consequences, the study reaches an understanding of the ways in which both firms studied actually made and implemented their capital investment decisions. The analysis utilised the study propositions to explore the resource allocation process and yields important observations on the role of the construction industry in the investment decision process and of the role of the corporate client in the construction process. The central finding is that the implementation of corporate capital investment, seen from the firm's perspective, is more a continuation of the process of capital investment than an end result of it. The study suggests that the construction industry participates rather more in the investment decision process, and the corporate client participates rather more in the construction process, than is generally recognised in the literatures on corporate capital investment and construction management.
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Ahmed, Kamran. "High density slender structures : their impacts on urban built-forms /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2580358x.
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Kitchen, Shawn Mark. "Evaluating consensus-building as a tool for making crown land-use decisions." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0001/MQ31841.pdf.
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Gaweesh, Ahmed Moustafa. "Sediment Dynamics in Alluvial Rivers Used as a Resource for Land-Building." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3687679.
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There is a dire need to use sediment from alluvial rivers to sustain and create new marsh land and sustain barrier islands and ridges. Coastal Louisiana is a prime example where wetland loss rates are one of the highest nationwide. This study focuses on investigating the sediment dynamics of the Lower Mississippi River, specifically the temporal and spatial variability of the sediment concentration as well as the sediment size characteristics. The objectives of this study are: to analyze and quantify the impact of diversion design parameters on the efficiency of sediment capture, to analyze the hydrodynamic and morphological patterns at sand bar borrow areas and to quantify the infill spatial and temporal patterns of these dredged pits. The investigation was performed using a morphodynamic numerical tool (Delft3D). The Louisiana 2012 State Master Plan identified two viable mechanisms to build land: sediment diversions and dedicated dredging. The morphodynamic model was parameterized and validated using historical and recent field observations. The model was used to examine three different parameters hypothesized as key design parameters that govern the sediment capture efficiency of sediment diversions: the alignment angle, invert elevation and diversion size. Diverted sediment loads and the sediment concentration ratio were used to assess the efficiency achieved to the corresponding change in design. Implications of choosing the designs on construction and efficiency was discussed.
The model was also used to investigate the riverside morphological response to a number of parameters for dredging lateral sand bars. Detailed analyses were carried out for the hydrodynamics at the dredge pit and its implications on the morphological development. Sensitivity analysis of hydrodynamic and sediment transport parameters examined the morphological response within the dredge pit. Findings put emphasis on data collection requirements and helped form future recommendations for predictive modeling of dredged sandbar infill. The study is concluded with an economic assessment for the impact of land-building mechanisms on the riverside in correlation to waterborne economy.
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Bland, Susan L. "Agenda-Building in Local Land-Use Issues: Blacksburg Versus the Big Box." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32158.
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Like other communities across the country, Blacksburg, Virginia, has struggled with land-use policy, planning, and growth issues. This struggle intensified when town residents discovered a Walmart store might be included in a new retail development project. Local interest groups quickly formed, establishing different perspectives concerning the issue, while a Blacksburg Town Council member introduced an ordinance that would give the town the power to halt plans for the store. This measure became the focal point of the conflict, and groups both supporting and opposing it worked aggressively to gain community support for their respective sides of the issue. Using Cobb and Elderâ s (1983) agenda-building framework, the goal of this thesis is to examine the ways various groups involved in a local land-use conflict defined, and sometimes redefined, their messages to town residents in an effort to expand the issue beyond the core members of the groups to gain more widespread support. The results of these efforts are also evaluated. A case study was conducted incorporating interviews with some of the key members of the interest groups involved in the conflict and discourse analysis to examine group messages generated during the controversy. This study found that the way an issue is defined could influence its progression and play an important role in its resolution. It also highlights definitive times during an issueâ s evolution that are critical to its progression. These findings demonstrate some of the benefits that can result from integrating effective issue management strategies into a communication program.Master of Arts
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Funke, Henrik L., Sandra Gelbrich, Andreas Ehrlich, and Lothar Kroll. "A Fiber-Reinforced Architectural Concrete for the Newly Designed Façade of the Poseidon Building in Frankfurt am Main." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-147926.
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In the course of revitalizing the Poseidon Building in Frankfurt, an energetically optimized façade, made of architectural concrete was developed. The development of a fiber-reinforced architectural concrete had to consider the necessary mechanical strength, design technology and surface quality. The fiber-reinforced architectural concrete has a compressive strength of 104.1 MPa and a 3-point bending tensile strength of 19.5 MPa. Beyond that, it was ensured that the fiber-reinforced high-performance concrete had a high durability, which has been shown by the capillary suction of de-icing solution and freeze thaw test with a weathering of abrasion of 113 g/m² after 28 freeze-thaw cycles and a mean water penetration depth of 11 mm.
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Gelinas, Ron Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Development and application of environomic units; hybrid map units designed to integrate environmental and socioeconomic data for land modelling." Ottawa, 1987.
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Caven, Valerie. "Building a career : gender and employment in a male-dominated profession." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11728/.
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Models of employment have become gendered with the 'standard' or masculine model following an unbroken, linear career path whilst the feminine model comprises periods of both full-time and part-time employment as well as intervals of non-participation in the labour market. Commitment to work is defined against these norms with those women who follow the masculine career pattern being said to display greater commitment to work than those who follow an alternative path. It is considered that career progression within an organisational hierarchy is dependent upon following the ‘standard' type of career path, which disadvantages women as historically they have been less likely than men to follow such a path. This thesis argues that there has been an over reliance on such explanations to illustrate and justify women's employment. Such studies patronise women by imposing these explanations on them without work being done to investigate women's own evaluations of their employment. The aim of this research is to examine the working arrangements of a group of highly qualified professional women architects who 'fit' the profile of high commitment to their career by their investment in qualifications. They work in an established 'traditional' profession in what is still very much a 'man's world'. The research aims to go deeper than just to confirm or disconfirm the stereotypes or profile. Within the structural and cultural components that form the profile, it examines the paths the women have taken, how they have progressed through their working and family lives, the choices and sacrifices they have made. In short, it explores not 'what' they have done but 'how' and 'why' they have done it.
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Webber, Alan. "Building practice and regulation in the land of Israel in the Talmudic age." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386269.
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Black, Katherine. "The Dimock community health center laundry building and land preservation and development evaluation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71380.
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Minde, Julie M. "Building a framework for a spatial decision support system for co-locating public facilities." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3402.
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Thesis (M.S.)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 111. Thesis director: Zolnik, Edmund. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Geographic and Cartographic Sciences. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 17, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-110). Also issued in print.
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Harper, Glenn Allen. "They chose land wisely : historic settlement patterns, agricultural land utilization, and building practices of Mennonite settlers in Southern Adams County, Indiana." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/487916.
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Historic rural settlement patterns and agricultural land utilization appear to have been partially influenced by pre-settlement landscape characteristics (especially drainage and soil fertility). Therefore efforts to document, interpret and ultimately protect and manage rural historic resources (sites, structures and objects) must include a broad survey methodology which integrates traditional architectural inventory procedures with natural landscape history and cultural influences.The preliminary findings of a recent rural landscape survey of southern Adams County, Indiana suggest a possible correlation between landscape characteristics and early Swiss Mennonite settlement patterns. While these settlers were probably not cognizant of the region's geologic history, they seem to have had an appreciation and awareness of certain landscape characteristics (elevation, drainage and vegetation as a clue to soils) as an indication of desirable farmland.This creative project uses the preliminary findings of The Southern Adams County Rural Landscape Survey as the basis for an in depth study of the apparent relationship between nature and culture which exists in this locality.The area which is the focus of the project is the historic home of the majority of Amish and Swiss Mennonite settlers in southern Adams County. It includes portions of French, Monroe, Hartford and Wabash Townships and centers on an uneven morainic belt which parallels the northern side of the Wabash River.The goal of the study is to explore the hypothesis generated by the survey, that: natural features and subculture geographic distribution as revealed in building types (the half-timber house, the white frame summer kitchen and the red Sweitzer barn) seem to correlate. The study is not an attempt to prove empirically the relationship between nature and culture. Rather it is an effort to reveal additional information about these variables which might later serve as the basis for analytical models or methodologies for studying other rural, cultural landscapes.Department of Architecture
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Morton, Christopher A. "Dwelling and building in Ngamiland, Northern Botswana." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:389ab908-3226-4673-a8c0-8d27d853bfb3.
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This thesis is an investigation of the ways in which activities of house-building are woven into the histories and biographies of the people of Ngamiland in nothern Botswana. Criticising those approaches in anthropology that have tended to see forms of buildings as the symbolic expressions of (or metaphors for) aspects of social order, the thesis argues that building practices are themselves embedded in the current of social activity - that is, of dwelling - which, over time, is generative of both persons and places. Just as every inhabitant enfolds within his or her person a set of relations with others, which are played out in the manifold tasks of everyday dwelling (including building), so every place (including the buildings found there) embodies a set of relations with other places. The first set of relations, essentially social, are captured by the notion of the taskscape, the second set, essentially material, by the notion of landscape. The thesis seeks to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between taskscape and landscape, or between social and material relations over time. The thesis argues for several important ways in which this dynamic relationship can be considered anthropologically. The first is the notion of the 'otherplaceness' of dwelling, in which the inherent interconnectedness of the landscape is highlighted, describing the ways in which both personal biographies and the material biographies of places are mutually creative over time. This is extended to investigate the relationship between social and material permanence in the landscape through an analysis of the ways in which building with concrete has affected everyday dwelling. Another key notion is that dwelling involves a wide range of social practices that can be understood as containing both forces of a centrifugal (movement away from a centre) and centripetal (movement toward a centre) nature, being an important aspect of how social practice and homestead form are interrelated over time. This is also extended in the final chapter through an exploration of the ways in which the materiality of the homestead is interwoven with memory, biography and personal history.
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Lim, Daw See Francis. "Development of knowledge management measurement framework and its application in China ship building industry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53669/.
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Knowledge Management (KM) in this research refers to a process that dives deep into an organization and analyzes operational metrics to understand and help the enterprise make use of knowledge both explicit and tacit, facilitate a state of knowledge awareness and sustain the knowledge managing and learning process. This novelty of the research is its first attempt to combine China's KM implementation issues statistics, literature review on KM model and KM CSFs, integrating with research objectives findings to develop a KM framework for China SME shipyards. This framework interlinks the knowledge cycle of knowledge acquisition, application and improvement continuously within organization by 3 KM domains of organization entity, people interaction and organization memory, formulated by 12 KM CSFs derived. The uniqueness of this framework is it emphasis on people. Organization entity involves people support of top management to motivate and drive organizational culture to embrace KM. Continuous organization knowledge improvement involve people interaction to facilitate knowledge processes through socialization programs, training and building of trustworthy team. People are the one who contribute to organization memory by retain and update organization knowledge for effective reprocessing and retrieval via information technology. The survey took the form of structured interview in five stages of field study with eight sets of survey questionnaires. AHP method is applied to quantify practices and translate it into measurable absolute numbers. Result showed that one third of China SME shipyards are NOT Ready for KM implementation. Among the deficiencies, knowledge structure is the first limitation, followed by the knowledge content and training. The value of this research is to highlight and illustrate to enterprises the opportunity of the application of KM Framework could continuously improve their organization knowledge from operating processes through systematic knowledge acquisition and application, to gain their competitiveness and sustainability in long term. In short term, this KM framework by application could answer to the question that all China SME shipyards unanimously asked "Do you think my shipyard is ready to implement Knowledge Management?"
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Alenius, Jonas, Erik Arons, and Alexander Jonsson. "Passive houses in Uppsala : A study of a new passive solar designed residential area at Ulleråker in Uppsala." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225594.
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Uppsala kommun has acquired the land at Ulleråkerand the plan is that it should be the starting point forthe new southeast district. The area is supposed toinclude 8000 new homes. The idea is also that the areashould be a new modern energy-efficient district. Thisreport examines how much energy that could be savedby using a passive house integrated design instead oftodays standard. Simulations in Matlab regarding localenergy utilization has also been done. Calculationsshow that the passive house integrated designgenerates in a total energy saving of 49 per centcompared to the standard house. The local electricalproduction comes from solar cell panels placed on theroofs and facades and the installed power is 19.8 MW.The production covers 80.3 per cent of the totalenergy demand or 91.4 per cent of the electricaldemand per year. But the systems production ismismatched to the local demand for electricity.
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Schlemmer, Jarrod Edward. "Mnemonic diversity a public building for Makhado, Limpopo Province /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05282004-085139.
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He, Jiangsui. "Identifying mistakes to discipline a New State the rectification campaigns in China's land reform, 1946-1952 /." Diss., View abstract only; access to full text of dissertation for UC campuses will be available after June 1, 2010, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307324.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 11, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-257).
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Glendinning, Emma Louise. "Building resilience through post-productivism : the case of farmers' markets." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/47124/.
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The UK’s agricultural system has been subject to many crises and challenges. In the 1980s this prompted new agricultural policies seeking to diversify agricultural production and farming livelihoods. A number of diversification pathways have been opened to farmers, one of these being ‘alternative’ food networks. Whilst this diversification of agriculture and thus farming incomes has been suggested to provide a more resilient agricultural system, there appears limited understanding of the dynamics not just of the system but within the system. Through taking an ethnographic approach this research project therefore seeks to uncover the development of resilience of those within the system whilst simultaneously seeking to understand how this affects the resilience of the market system as a whole. In order to gain a detailed insight into a farmers’ market community a case study research strategy was taken. Data was gathered through active participation in the market community at Garrington farmers’ market in west Wales. Through working with different stallholders at the market for one year, the interactions, tensions and complexities of the community were witnessed and explored. Twenty five further days were spent with farmers and producers, away from the market, at their place of production. Ethnographic interviews were carried out whilst working alongside producers providing a deep and rich understanding of each producer, their production ethos and what the farmers’ market provided to them. The research explores how farmers and producers react to differing challenges, both environmental and economic. It demonstrates their vulnerability to these and the limitations to their individual adaptive capacities. Further, it explores the possibility of farmers’ markets to provide a community of practice and a community of coping for producers, yet the lack of realisation of this potential. Within this the tensions of the farmers’ market definition are recognised; the expectations held by differing producers explored and the challenge of standardising an ‘alternative’ food network examined. This research argues that the social networks of farmers’ markets have the potential to offer vital contact to others to aid innovation and learning. However, this potential is seemingly diminished when issues of trust, power and hierarchy are introduced through producer expectations. Here then the suggestion is made that if such social networks are to fulfil their potential they must balance diversity with specialisation, competition with co-operation and innovation with stability. This could be achieved through formulating standards, standards that are flexible, able to be locally interpreted and made applicable to each local context. Such suggestions require good governance but through their implementation could help develop the resilience of both individuals within a system along with the system as a whole.
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Pudasaini, Madhu Sudan. "Erosion modelling under different land use management practices." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040401.140345/index.html.
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Gutierrez, Alcantara Flor Monica. "Building a performance measurement internal auditing framework for the ISO 9001 quality management system." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13353/.
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During the last two decades, ISO 9000 standards have become one of the most important management approaches in the world. Currently, the standards are used by more than one million companies in more than 170 countries. ISO 9001 audits are the most widely used performance measurement (PM) method to assess ISO 9001 quality management systems (QMS). However, in recent years the effectiveness of ISO 9001 quality auditing has been questioned for: (1) only focusing on compliance; (2) failing to detect problems in products and processes; (3) failing to predict QMS failures; and (4) failing to provide added value to organisations. To overcome these problems, two main conversations have taken place in the literature. The first advocates changing the current compliance focus of auditing for a performance oriented one, to promote improvements in business processes and the QMS. The second theme seeks to develop different methods, guidelines, tools and techniques to improve auditing practice. In order to generate a change of focus from compliance towards improvement, some recent research has also advocated incorporating concepts and techniques from the PM field into the ISO 9000 world. However, there have been no substantial previous attempts to provide internal quality auditing with a performance focus, which was the aim of this research. Hence, this thesis intends to establish how ISO 9001:2008 certified organisations can better measure their QMS performance using internal audits. In order to provide answers to this question, an empirical study using mixed methods research was conducted. Firstly, the current state of the art of the ISO 9001:2008 internal auditing process was determined using a mixed methods study, including two surveys of 272 ISO 9001 experts and 25 interviews. This allowed the identification of the current problems that ISO 9001 certified organisations face when conducting audits, as well as the impacts on the performance of the QMS due to deficient internal auditing. Secondly, using the statistical technique of path analysis, a model identifying the relationships between internal audit problems and their impacts on QMS performance was developed. The model indicated that an intricate network of individual and organisational deficits link auditing and QMS performance. Finally, ‘Audit+’ a detailed and comprehensive procedure for conducting ISO 9001:2008 internal audits with a focus on the performance of the QMS was developed. The procedure was thoroughly tested and validated by a further mixed methods study, including three in-depth case studies and a survey of 174 ISO 9001 auditors. Although some minor changes were recommended, the results of the Audit+ validation were encouraging, showing that PM approaches can be successfully incorporated into the ISO 9001 world, to help organisations to better measure their QMS performance.
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Han, Yuzhuo. "Evaluating the DBH Verification Method to Complex Buildings Designed According to New Zealand Compliance Documents C/AS1." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8992.
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Performance-based fire engineering design is becoming a more common practice for fire safety design of large complex buildings and modifying existing buildings. However, different engineering assumptions and ambiguous acceptance criteria not only lead to inconsistent level of safety, but also cause inefficient Building Consent process and can result in expensive appeals.
In August 2006 the New Zealand Department of Building and Housing (DBH) has been developing a Verification Method (C/VM2) for demonstrating compliance with the Fire Safety requirements of the New Zealand Building Code (C Clauses).
This research evaluated the proposed C/VM2 on four complex buildings, including Multi-level Night Club, Hospital, Shopping Mall and Retail Warehouse. It has showed that the C/VM2 successfully implements a systematic and less ambiguous guidance for the future performance-based fire safety designs. However, continued analysis and development is necessary that a solely deterministic method may not be the best solution. A risk-based concept is suggested to be incorporated into the new generation of the C/VM2.
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EDBERG, JOHAN. "A walk through Luxury land." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Textilhögskolan, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-20183.
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This thesis is about how high level brands communicate their brands to the audience. The thesis consists of analyses of the identity and images of two luxury brands, Gucci and Burberry and two premium brands, Lacoste and Morris. The purpose is to clarify the identity of the brands, by carrying out analysis as well as interviews with key personnel. Furthermore there is an analysis of the advertisement images for the respective brands in order to clarify the brands images. Finally there is an analysis of the alleged conformity between identity and image and also a section about the luxury and premium brand differs, or rather not differ from each other in the identity-image connection. The methods used are Aakers identity system, to establish the respective brands identity. An image analysis with inspiration from Panfosky and leading semoticians are also used to scrutinize the advertising images from the Spring/Summer 2010 campaigns. The results show that there is indeed a good conformation among the brands when it comes to the identity-image connection. The brands identities are thorough and well articulated and the advertisement images are well executed with the identity well in mind which makes for that the campaigns are contributing in building a good brand image among the target audience. There are several areas where the premium brand advertising images congregate with the ones of the luxury brand.Program: Magisterutbildning i fashion management med inriktning modemarknadsföring
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Kendall, Laurie J. "From the liminal to the land : building Amazon culture at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3499.
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Narayana, Jayashree. "Violations of land use and building regulations : evidence from a case study in Bangalore, India /." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06112009-063833/.
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Nor, Chiahemba Jesse. "Complexities of land use planning and nation building in Nigeria's new capital city of Abuja." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3911.
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Policy implementation tends to be a nightmare in the South as they mostly end up unimplemented. New capital cities of the South also reflect this nightmare. In Nigeria’s new capital city of Abuja, master plan making is considered of intrinsic importance toward promoting national identity in a diverse ethnic society. However, despite a history with series of master plan making spanning over 3 decades, implementing the land uses captured in these plans tend to be difficult. This thesis explores the complexities that underline land use implementation in Abuja’s Central Area. It seeks to make sense of the problems undermining implementation in Abuja’s Central Area. But beyond that the thesis explores the Western notions that have gone into Post-Independence nation building in new capital cities. Investigating these concerns draw insights from a multi-disciplinary body of knowledge. From policy implementation, rational planning process and action-based notions of implementation, relational planning, political economy, post-colonial critique of planning in the South, nationalism, and a wide range of themes on national capital cities. Using these insights, I develop a framework of exploring these concerns of the thesis through an inductive and qualitative process. The thesis’ findings center around what I refer to as plan gravity. Plan gravity is the privileging of Abuja’s master plans as not only being the most important thing in Abuja, but the answer to the aspirations that Abuja as a new national capital city seeks to achieve. But the privileging leads to the marginalisation and neglect of other factors that are vital to implementation; for instance the planning system under which these plans are expected to be implemented. Again, despite the privileging, implementation is undermined by a multiplicity of actors’ interests, power play and politics, the influx of global mega projects into Abuja’s Central Area, and the kinds of Western knowledge that have driven nation building in Abuja.
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Craig, David. "A model for customer-focused culture change in the speculative house-building industry : executive summary." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3972/.
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The UK house-building industry is increasingly criticised for the quality of its products. Its business drivers are less focused on the needs of customers compared with much of the manufacturing sector. Recent surveys have revealed considerable dissatisfaction among buyers of newly built homes, particularly with the finished product and after-sales service quality. However, this cannot be viewed in isolation from the general business culture that prevails. In light of increasing calls for industry-wide changes, this research uses Westbury Homes as a typical example to examine existing practices in the industry that act as barriers to a change in culture. In determining a way forward, a review of extant change management models including Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri provides new insight into the relative strengths of each and the role they can play in the formation of a holistic approach to successful customer-focused culture change. A four stage Strategy Deployment Maturity Journey for culture change is proffered that guides the deployment of policy through the introduction of i) a balanced set of headline performance measures, ii) operational performance indicators as drivers for change, iii) a participative programme for change, and iv) mechanisms for development, feedback and review of strategy. Early results indicate that implementation will lead to successful deployment of long-term objectives; specifically, a customer-focused culture that views service and product quality as contributing to future sales and profitability, instead of simply in terms of costs.
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Makaluza, Nomakholwa. "Capacity building for the integration of environmental planning into land reform: an assessment of a national programme." Thesis, UWC, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2873.
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Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)In 1994 the South African government embarked on a land reform programme to redistribute and return land to previously deprived and displaced communities and individuals. Concerns have, however, been raised about the impact of land reform on the environment and its natural resources. The Department of Land Affairs (DLA) has attempted to deal with this problem through the National Training Programme, which was specifically initiated to develop capacity among officials of the DLA to integrate environmental planning into the land reform programme. This study assesses the National Training Programme to determine whether the participants who attended the Nationa lTraining Programme are in fact integrating environmental planning into land reform projects. To achieve this aim a qualitative research methodology is used, which involves both the survey based method and a case study approach. From the literature review there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the enormous pressure on the land and the lack of environmental knowledge are the major contributors to environmental degradation in South Africa. The study points out that the South African experience suggests that land reform cannot be sustainable without adequate provision for environmental planning. In its assessment of the National Training Programme, the study finds that, although the participants had gained self-confidence and a positive attitude towards the environment, this has not been applied in practice. Of significance also is the fact that, given the evidence which indicates that where land reform takes place land resources might be degraded, the study clearly demonstrates how environmental planning has in practice been neglected by the DLA, due to a lack of capacity. In view of the outcomes of the assessment of the National Training Programme, the study recommends that further research be undertaken to investigate and indicate the extent and the rate of land degradation as a result of the neglect of environmental concerns in the land reform programme.
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Schoenwitz, Manuel. "Aligning product and processes to customer needs in prefabricated house building." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/68393/.
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Given the impact of increasing customer choice on operations, this thesis clarifies the role of customer preferences and its impact on the operations of a company in the house building industry. In doing so, an empirical investigation into customer choice requirements is offered and a framework that helps to align customer preferences with the product and processes is presented. A prioritisation of components is provided which ultimately helps to design houses that meet buyer requirements. Furthermore a method is presented that helps in prioritising problem areas. This study is built on two empirical pillars and the evidence drawn from these sources. First, on the basis of a case study a view of the house as a system of components and sub-components has been developed. This resulted in the set-up of a product architecture in which the Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP) could be positioned. Second, a preference measurement task applying a pairwise comparison questionnaire was conducted so as to define the level of choice expected by customers for the components. An important outcome of the survey was to identify how customers actually prioritise categories and components in a prefabricated housing design. Combining the results of these two research exercises helps in making the correct decisions about the level of variety to offer. The generalisability of the findings is limited. However, the process of conducting the case study as well as the preference measurement is generalisable in research that concentrates on products with a complex product architecture. The framework can thus be adopted by practitioners manufacturing multi-attribute products seeking to pursue a mass customisation strategy. This research contributes by highlighting the importance of integrating process and product development in order to design a value chain that meets customer needs.