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How Supply Networks Influence Sustainable Innovation: Evidence From Ghana's Public Works Procurement
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 4309-4327, March 2026.ABSTRACT Recent environmental and sustainability standards in procurement increase short‐term production and operational costs to suppliers, which are often recouped by charging price premiums for innovative solutions. However, public buyers are less likely to pay such price premiums, resulting in a disincentive among suppliers to bid for innovation ...
Peter Adjei‐Bamfo +5 more
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Sustainability Assessment Methods for the Gulf Region [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes the development of a sustainability assessment framework designed to be used in the Gulf Region, which is an area which has experienced large scale building development and also a region in which sustainability assessment is not yet ...
Nicholls, Richard +2 more
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Energy Science &Engineering, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 1148-1168, March 2026.The study shows how major energy consumption in different sectors of Bangladesh's textile industry, driven by conventional electric motors, can be reduced by adopting Variable Speed Drives (VSD) and High‐Efficiency Motors (HEM). VSDs lower energy use through speed reductions of 20%, 40%, and 60%, while HEMs improve efficiency under motor loads of 50 ...
Mohammad Ahsan Habib +4 more
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BuildingsThere is a gap in the research on LEED-certified projects that has arisen from combining the “old” LEED system and “new” LEED version in green building practice.
Svetlana Pushkar
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, 2017 Porous concrete is a special kind of concrete that has high porosity. The only difference between porous concrete and normal concrete is that a porous concrete mix does not consist of sand or other small particles.
Ang, Jonathan, Lihndal, Erik
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Cleaner WaterThis study examines the environmental sustainability of three textile factories in Bangladesh with varying levels of LEED certification: Platinum LEED-certified (Factory A), Gold LEED-certified (Factory B), and non-LEED-certified (Factory C).
Md Shamsuzzaman, Mazed Islam
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Wakala buildings of Mamluk era in Cairo, Egypt and how far they meet the rating criteria of LEED V4
Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2018 Buildings are responsible for around 50% of energy consumption around the world and most of this because of spaces design, low heat isolation building material, occupant behavior and non-efficient architectural treatments.
M.F. Abdel-Aal, I. Maarouf, S. El-Sayary
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LEED Certification and Its Effectiveness on Urban Heat Island Effect
Journal of KIBIM, 2015 The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has provided abundant resources and guidelines for a new project to become a sustainable anchor in the neighborhood. Paired with a range of checklist, LEED has strong influence on the standards for a sustainable building, and it also has played an iconic role in energy-efficient architecture ...
Hwan-Yong Kim, Dong-Hwan Gu
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Screening of energy efficient technologies for industrial buildings' retrofit [PDF]
, 2011 This chapter discusses screening of energy efficient technologies for industrial buildings ...
Fisher, Dan +4 more
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Catalog of Approaches to Impact Measurement: Assessing Social Impact in Private Ventures [PDF]
, 2008 To inform action impact investors could take to measure impact in a coordinated manner, The Rockefeller Foundation commissioned the study of impact assessment approaches presented here.It is natural to hope to find a single, turnkey solution that can ...
Brett Galimidi, Sara Olsen
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