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Changes of Quality in Javanese Houses
Open House International, 2010One of the most important issues arising from the 2006 Java earthquake is that many of the Javanese houses were easily collapsed or badly damaged due to the quake. The failure of the vernacular houses was also believed to be a principle factor in causing the casualties.
Noor Cholis Idham +2 more
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House of Quality for Safe Cities
2023The concept of safe cities is relatively new and is addressed as an outcome of Crime Prevention Environmental Design (CPTED). Safe cities use technology to help governments, communities, and businesses reduce the likelihood of crime and create an environment where people feel safe and comfortable.
Ocotlán Díaz-Parra +7 more
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Modification of the Quality House Method
2020 IEEE 15th International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies (CSIT), 2020This article is about introducing Total Quality Management (TQM) philosophy into complex projects. The analysis of the introduction of TQM in higher education institutions with the possibility of adapting this approach to projects for the creation of complex equipment is carried out.
Dmitriy Kritskiy, Olha Kritskaya
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Automating the Quality Function Deployment House of Quality
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006Quality Function Deployment (QFD) initially evolved from the manufacturing organizations, but over the time has found applications in services of various kinds. Often, it is deemed as difficult to construct the QFD house of quality and perform the related calculations, especially by its potential users in the services industry like education ...
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The Neighborhood Quality of Subsidized Housing
Journal of the American Planning Association, 2014Problem, research strategy, and findings: Housing policy in the United States has struggled for decades to assess the relative importance of neighborhood context in the provision of subsidized housing. In this study, we enter the debate over the value and limitations of neighborhood settings and the “dispersal-versus-development” approach by looking at
Emily Talen, Julia Koschinsky
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Performance measurement of quality of houses: development of a building quality index for houses
2014The risk of structural failures of residential housing in South Africa is determined by the effectiveness of implementation of the relevant technical regulations. This risk has to be managed proactively in order to ensure consistent quality of the product. However, internationally, very little has been done to quantify the quality of a housing product.
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Discrimination In Quality Of Metropolitan Housing.
1971PhD ; Ethnic studies ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Sociology ; University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/186772/2/7204830 ...
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Housing, Health, and Quality of Life
2006Abstract This chapter describes housing services available for older adults, noting that shelter is a basic need and describing the programs designed to meet that need. It identifies the role of income disparities in determining the housing options available to seniors and uses the concept of “environmental press” to argue that “goodness
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Causes and indicators of housing quality
Social Indicators Research, 1978This paper examines the feasibility and validity of one method for combining measures of different dimensions of the quality of a household's housing situation into a summary index value. Housing quality is treated as an unobservable variable for which there are multiple observable causes and indicators.
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Housing, Space and Quality of Life
2017With case studies from Spain, Turkey, Brazil, the UK, the USA and Israel, it discusses issues such as low-cost housing, security, environmental conservation and sustainability, alternative building techniques, cultral diversity and its impact on housing and urban designs.
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