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Enhancing surgical safety through surgical instruments repair technicians' training: recent experience from Nigeria. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
Udeigwe-Okeke CR   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Funding building refurbishments

SecEd, 2012
The axing of the Building Schools for the Future left many schools in limbo, with poor buildings but no funding to replace them. Vincent King looks at funding refurbishments in a post-BSF world, while Andy Shaw offers some money-saving tips.
Vincent King, Andy Shaw
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Building refurbishment: habitat upgrading

Energy and Buildings, 2000
Building refurbishment is often considered as a technical matter that concerns technical experts and engineers. However, every refurbishment operation modifies the human living environment. A narrow technical or financial vision can deteriorate people's living environment, while a global approach can upgrade it to current comfort standards, ecological ...
J.-L Genre, F Flourentzos, T Stockli
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Building façades: sustainability, maintenance and refurbishment

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering Sustainability, 2005
The UK has a fairly mature building stock with between 1 and 5% of new buildings being introduced each year. The development of new façade solutions that can respond to the needs of the occupants of both new and refurbished buildings is, therefore, a key area for development.
Kaluarachchi, Y.   +6 more
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Application of lean principles for building refurbishment projects in Sri Lanka

Built Environment Project and Asset Management
PurposeA comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify the lean principles and the challenges of building refurbishment. To have an in-depth investigation of the application of lean principles to address the challenges of refurbishment ...
Madurachcharige Hasini Vidushima Fernando   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Buildings Recycled—City Refurbished

Journal of Architectural Education, 2001
The treatment of buildings as mere structural enclosures for physical shelter contributes to the ease and frequency in which they are demolished to make way for new development in Hong Kong.
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Integrating a rich picture diagram and causal loop diagram to model stakeholder engagement in building refurbishment projects

, 2020
PurposeThe more contemporary views on managing projects recommend stakeholder engagement as an important part of the process. Challenges have been reported when attempting to involve project stakeholders in a construction project due to the complexity of
Yūrin Seki, M. Sutrisna, A. Olanipekun
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Refurbishment of Buildings and Bridges

2002
Principles and Design Criteria for Consolidation and Rehabilitation (F. M. Mazzolani).- Refurbishment of Steel Bridges (M. Ivanyi).- Refurbishment of Single-Storey Buildings (H. Pasternak).- Strengthening Techniques for Buildings (A. Mandara).- Use of Special Techniques in Refurbishment (J.-P.
MAZZOLANI, FEDERICO MASSIMO, IVANYI M.
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Refurbishment of industrial buildings

Energy Conversion and Management, 2006
When a building is subject for refurbishment, there is a golden opportunity to change its behavior as an energy system. This paper shows the importance of careful investigations of the processes, the climate shield and the heating systems already present in the building before measures are implemented in reality.
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