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The UK Government has unveiled an ambitious retrofit programme that seeks significant improvement to the energy … efficiency of the housing stock. High quality data on the energy efficiency of buildings and their related energy demand is …
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Developing countries have still shortage of housing due to natural disasters. Houses get destroyed wholly or partly and … it causes the increase of lack of housing stock of a country. In disaster management cycle, rehabilitation or … settlements are in a stable way. The paper describes the natural disasters and issues related to proper disaster housing for …
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Sector, Housing, and Shock Challenges in Nigeria -- Chapter 10. Influence of the Big Brother Naija Lockdown 2020 Edition …
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Purpose – This paper aims to determine the sustainability of housing development in the context of neighbourhood … to survive as that humans species. It therefore implies that housing development has to be designed in a sustainable … manner with due regard to its neighbourhood. This is reinforced by the fact that housing development cannot be sustainable …
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‐oriented techniques and tools used to assess the energy performance of housing developments. The objective is to propose guidelines that … sustainable communities of “best practice”. Findings – The investigation of “best practice” housing developments reveals that the …
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Purpose – Despite the role of post conflict housing reconstruction in establishing the development of peace in conflict … affected countries, there are many issues which hinder its success. While the inconsideration of housing needs in post conflict … housing reconstruction has directly or indirectly given rise for most of the issues, the countries emerging from conflicts …
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The home is the place where the intimacy of living is manifested and where relationships with the outside world are formed. The truest sense of domestic space is expressed in the opposition between the interior dimension and collective aspirations. A society's needs and aspirations are reflected...
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Building Cities reviews the experiences of the Latin American and Caribbean region in the design and implementation of neighbourhood upgrading programmes. The volume has a particular focus on the lessons learned by specialists of the Inter-American Development Bank and their technical and...
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