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School Facility Projects in Latin America
Berk, Jeffrey J.; Vaz, Rita de Cassia Alves; Honorio, João - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2004
Many Latin American countries are undertaking projects, in line with practices disseminated by PEB, to share school facilities with the local community, to adapt traditional schools for students with disabilities, and to collaborate with private companies to finance educational buildings. The...
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Space, Buildings and the Life Worlds of Home-Based Workers: Towards Better Design
Holliss, Frances - In: Sociological Research Online 17 (2012) 2, pp. 24-24
This article draws on recent research into the architecture of home‐based work, the working practices of the home …. Follow-on research was conducted in London in 2009-11. Originating in architecture, the research employed a number of visual … architecture, they are normally used to portray idealized buildings and interiors. People and their everyday lives are usually …
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Marketing a city: Glasgow, city of architecture and design
Daskou, Sofia; Thom, Claudia; Boojihawon, Dev K. - In: Global Business and Economics Review 6 (2004) 1, pp. 22-37
The current study is an attempt to explore the identity of Glasgow (UK) as a city of Architecture and Design. The study …
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Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code
MacCormack, Alan; Rusnak, John; Baldwin, Carliss Y. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1015-1030
This paper reports data from a study that seeks to characterize the differences in design structure between complex … software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define … differences in structure between Linux and the first version of Mozilla, suggesting that Linux had a more modular architecture …
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Knitting Patterns: Managing Design Complexity with Computation
McMeel, Dermott John James; Amor, Robert - In: International Journal of Art, Culture and Design … 5 (2016) 2, pp. 1-16
functions within the design and construction process. Communicating with software outside of the suite can be highly problematic … might be implemented within the design and construction domain. Our first test case—an agent-based dynamic simulation … design and construction processes. …
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The challenge of infrastructure financing
Ferrari, Massimo; Giovannini, Alberto; Pompei, Massimo - In: Oxford review of economic policy 32 (2016) 3, pp. 446-474
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Collar options to manage revenue risks in real toll public-private partnership transportation projects
Shan, Liang; Garvin, Michael; Kumar, Raman - In: Construction Management and Economics 28 (2010) 10, pp. 1057-1069
The revenue risk is of great importance to ensure the success of a real toll public-private partnership (PPP) transportation project. Past research has proposed a revenue guarantee put option as an alternative way to quantify and potentially manage this risk. A practical, or commercial,...
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The diffusion of risks in public private partnership contracts
Demirag, Istemi; Khadaroo, Iqbal; Stapleton, Pamela; … - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2012) October, pp. 1317-1339
financiers. Design/methodology/approach – This study focuses on the financial structure of PPPs and on their financiers …
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Desirability rating analysis for debt financing of public-private partnership road projects
Laishram, Boeing Singh; Kalidindi, Satyanaranaya - In: Construction Management and Economics 27 (2009) 9, pp. 823-837
Public-private partnership (PPP) road projects are highly leveraged capital-intensive projects. Lenders, which provide the major portion of financing in the form of debt instruments, undertake loan approval processes to examine the various aspects of the projects that could influence the debt...
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An urban crisis management system for critical infrastructures : participation possibilities for insurance companies
Wrede, Dirk; Will, Annemarie; Linderkamp, Tim; … - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 42 (2017) 4, pp. 633-656
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