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Sustainability or sustainable infrastructure? Using sustainability discourse to construct a motorway [PDF]
Local Environment, 2020 WestConnex is a 33km, A$16.8bn motorway under construction in Sydney. It is promoted by the state government as an example of excellent ‘sustainable infrastructure’. We explore the use of sustainability discourse to explain how a motorway corporation, established by a state government committed to building infrastructure that could later be privatized,
Phil McManus, Graham Haughton
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Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2021 The accessibility of suburban and rural areas presents existential challenges for resident communities. Municipality inhabitants with little access to public transport and structurally weak regions often work in distant urban agglomerations, with long ...
Vanessa Miriam Carlow +4 more
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Project Leadership and Society, 2022 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic narrative that has continuously gained attention from policy makers, practitioners and academics over the last few decades.
Natalya Sergeeva, Evangelia Kapetanaki
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Sustainability in Construction
The Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. Fascicle IX, Metallurgy and Materials Science, 2023 The main theme of this work is the sustainability of buildings and their relevance for sustainable development in Romania and Europe in the current context of orientation towards sustainable augmentation, minimizing the negative impact on the environment.A sustainable building must be designed to use the necessary resources: energy, water, and ...
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Education & Skills Committee inquiry on sustainable schools : submission from the Sustainable Development Commission [PDF]
, 2012 This submission to the Education & Skills Committee looks at sustainable development, sustainable schools, school buildings, and provides recommendations on these issues.Publisher ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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Reorganising specification practice for component reuse: an exploratory study
Buildings & CitiesDespite increasing policy attention to circular economy strategies, building component reuse remains limited in mainstream construction practice. Existing research has demonstrated the environmental potential of reuse and identified the importance of ...
Shan Gao +3 more
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Aspects of the effect of confinement measures imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on outdoor air quality [PDF]
Constructii: Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2021 Record levels of air pollution, leading to environmental degradation, deteriorating health and climate change, are affecting cities around the world. However, due to the confinement measures imposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, reductions ...
Vasilica VASILE +3 more
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Buildings, 2018 Research on platform-based production systems for house-building has focused on production and manufacturing issues. The aim of this research is to explore how the architectural design process contributes to the industrialised house-building industry ...
Gustav Jansson +2 more
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Analysis of Influencing Characteristics of Biochars for Ammonium Adsorption
Applied Sciences, 2022 This article summarizes and performs a systematic analysis using experimental results from recent research on ammonium recovery from aqueous sources using biochar.
Aubrey Shenk +3 more
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3D printing for sustainable construction [PDF]
, 2020 Accepted ...
Tay, Daniel Yi Wei +5 more
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