BRE499 Dissertation Title: An Analysis on Tendering Decision in Hong Kong Construction Industry: The Contractor Perspective Department: Department of Building and Real Estate Supervisor: Ms Sandy L.Y. TANG Course: BSc (Hons) in Surveying (Part-time) Submitted by: WONG Yu-fung Student ID: 05507045T Submission Date: 2nd April 2009 Declaration I declare that the completed Dissertation represents my own work‚ except where due acknowledgement is made‚ and
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Urbanization is the process by which people living in the rural areas shift to the urban areas in order to find a better life. Since medieval times people have been migrating to the places where resources are in abundance. This process is being in witnessed all over the world‚ and many consider it to be bad thing. Some even regard urbanization to be a “Modern Disease”. Before embarking in to any conclusion I would like to see both the aspects of the topic. The shift or movement to the city creates
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Note on Affordable Housing and Housing Finance in the Face of the Global Financial Crisis for the Luncheon Meeting‚ New York‚ 25 June 2009 Introduction In its resolution A/RES/63/221 entitled “Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT)”‚ the General Assembly “invites the Governing Council of UN-HABITAT to keep under review developments in the housing finance systems
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Hong Kong Housing Problem is not only attributed to the High Population Density Every Hong Kong citizen knows one of the grave troubles in Hong Kong is housing problem. The order of severity can be apparently reflected by many figures in recent research studies. ”Rents up 22 per cent in Hong Kong“ (2011) remarks that “the price of renting two-bedroom accommodation rose by 22% to US$2‚830 a month between 2009 and 2010“ (¶2). Subcommittee on Building Safety and Related Issues (2010) also observes
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Urbanization and its effect on third world living conditions Urbanization is the spreading of cities into less populated agricultural areas. Most people would not think that this is necessarily a problem. They would say that it is good that the "developing countries" were becoming more developed. With urbanization comes factories and more jobs‚ so the people can make more money and be happier. Right? The problem is that these people must sacrifice their traditional lifestyles‚ for this new "Urbanism"(the
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Title: “INTEGRATION OF GREEN TECNOLOGY AND RAIN WATER HARVESTING INTO LOW COST HOUSING” Authors: Prof: Siddesh K Pai –DME‚ DBM‚ BE Mech‚ PGP PEM‚MIM - Assistant professor – National Institute of construction Management & Research(NICMAR) – email: siddeshp@nicmar.ac.in ‚ Cell: 8888830544 MR. KAUSHIKCHANDRA.L - BE( CIVIL Engg) ‚ Post graduate program in Advance construction management ‚ Student @ National Institute of construction Management & Research(NICMAR) MR. VIJAY KASULA- BE(
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phenomenon the rapid development forced to do to accommodate the total population such as urbanization. However‚ the unwell planning development was done that made our environment in trouble. The major factor of this happening because less understanding of surrounding environment and ecological aspect while planning the urbanization. One profession that closely related with designing the sustainable urbanization is landscape architects. The development of landscape urbanism theory and its implementation
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Outside o f the small-unit focus‚ the sociological focus - regardless of whether the methodology is quantitative or descriptive - nlay provide special insights into the likely performance of large-scale military organizations‚ since it focuses on such problems a s the normative aspects o f officership‚ recruitment‚ military socialization‚ morale and political attitudes‚ and troop trainability.? The operational approach emphasizes the importance o f doctrines and tactical
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Travelling and transporting goods were very inconvenient before railroads were built in 19th-century. According to Stephen Slavin‚ “Before railroads‚ shipping a ton of goods 400 miles could easily quadruple the price. But by rail‚ the same ton of goods could be shipped in a fraction of the time and one-twentieth of the cost.”1. These made the economies of the American West bad and difficult to improve. John Steele Gordon describes it as: “there really was no "American economy." Instead there was
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into the larger communities‚ thus making them bigger still. However from wiki answer homepage‚ the answer is quite different. It described that urbanisation is what will occurs when the rural character of a town is gradually replaced by housing and industrial developments‚ resulting in more suburbs. Essentially‚ it is an increase in the proportion of people living in urban or developed areas compared to rural areas. Finally from the finding above‚ it can be concluded that the
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