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Integrated Building Maintenance and Safety Framework: Educational and Public Facilities Case Study
Buildings, 2022 The facility safety is a highly important issue in educational institutions and public facilities, where the safety and health of the occupants (students, educational and public service staff) is a high-order priority.
Kun-Chi Wang +3 more
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Challenges for Improvement of Quality in Construction of a Growing Economy [PDF]
Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2005 This paper highlights the results of a questionnaire survey amongst contractors and contracting consultants in a growing economy. The survey was intended to explore the problems that the employees think might affect the quality of construction works ...
S. Chan Loong +4 more
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Buildings, 2019 Though Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been proposed as a lean solution for the construction industry, its implementation would itself benefit from a proactive lean approach.
Saratu Terreno +2 more
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Project Planning and Control in a Developing Economy: Implementation and Realisation [PDF]
Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2005 In the competitive and uncertain environment of the construction industry, the ability to deliver end products with the required quality, schedule and budget is vital to the survival of any construction-related firm.
H. Abdul-Rahman +5 more
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A design of fluorescent fiber solar concentrator (FFSC) and outdoor testing for remote indoor day lighting and power producing evaluation for building integration [PDF]
Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2008 Different from the conventional luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), a 1200mmx1200m m solar concentrator consisting of 150 pieces of three-color 1m long, 2mm diameter fluorescent fibers (FFSC) has been designed and mounted on a University building roof ...
Wang Chen, H. Abdul-Rahman, S. P. Rao
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Application and Assessment of Extension of Time Claim: Findings of Case Studies Conducted in Malaysia [PDF]
Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2006 It is a common phenomenon for construction projects to have applications for extension of time. Many problems are encountered in practice in the application and preparation of extension of time claims.
M.S. Mohd Danuri, +3 more
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Enabling Technologies and Recent Advancements of Smart Facility Management
Buildings, 2023 With various emerging technologies and integration possibilities, smart facility management has gained wide interest in recent years. Several technologies were introduced to support facilities management and improve decision-making, such as Building ...
Hosam Olimat, Hexu Liu, Osama Abudayyeh
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Buildings, 2022 With the use of cyber-physical systems (CPS) advanced computational capabilities, the delivery of facilities management (FM) mandates are efficiently and effectively conducted.
Matthew Ikuabe +4 more
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Molecules, 2020 In this study, we investigated the tumor targeting effect in cancer cells using triphenylphosphonium (TPP) cations, which are accumulated by differences in membrane potential, and folic acid (FA), which is selectively bound to overexpressed receptors on ...
Gun Gyun Kim +4 more
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Improving social value through facilities management: Swedish housing companies
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Housing companies create, maintain and develop an important part of the built environment. Besides their core activity of providing housing, they can increasingly also mitigate societal problems and contribute to social, environmental and financial ...
Daniella Troje
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