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Solid waste arisen from construction activities is grave concern in many economies. Given its negative impacts to the … natural environment as a public good, construction waste is often heavily regulated by authorities. Hong Kong is no exception … to this; over the past decades, a series of construction waste management (CWM) policies including regulations, codes …
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Quantification is crucial for construction and demolition waste management. Accurate estimation can be satisfied by …
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Construction waste comprises inert (e.g., sand, bricks, and concrete) and non-inert materials (e.g., bamboo, plastics … the non-inert portion is disposed of at landfills. However, construction waste is usually a mixture of both inert and non … studies have revealed that construction contractors in Hong Kong were unwilling to carry out on-site construction waste …
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particular concern is the increasing amount of construction and demolition (C&D) waste being dumped at landfill sites. Greater … levels. The causes and quantities of building construction waste generated on public housing building sites in Hong Kong have … been analysed. Five public housing construction sites were selected for the study by regular site visits. Timber boards …
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material control on building sites. The problem of material wastage is not an isolated issue on construction sites. It is also … construction & demolition (C&D) waste. Many resources can be conserved and the amount of C&D waste required to be disposed of … study conducted in Hong Kong relating to material control on construction sites with high-rise multi-storey buildings. In …
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To achieve and maintain competitive advantage, manufacturing enterprises must be flexible and open to change. This requires regular evaluation of performance and redesign of manufacturing capability. An information-centred approach to factory design is introduced. This includes a reusable...
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We consider a general discrete-time dynamic nancial market with three assets: a riskless bond, a security and a derivative. The market is incomplete (apriori) and at equilibrium. We assume also that the agents of the economy have short-sales constraints on the stock and that the payo at the...
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Several global developments such as diminishing production resources, limits in the availability of water and the growing demand for bio-energy as well as sector-wide crises (e.g. BSE, swine fever, dioxin) have led to a changing attitude of society towards the conse-quences of the food...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to generate three types of forecasts, namely, historical, ex-post and ex-ante, using the world famous Box-Jenkins time series models for motor, mash and mung prices in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – The models on the basis of which these...
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Purpose – The paper aims to provide a quantitative methodology for dealing with (true) Knightian uncertainty in the management of credit risk based on information-gap decision theory. Design/methodology/approach – Credit risk management assigns clients to credit risk categories with...
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