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Mass customisation involves the provision of product variants that fulfil clients' specific requirements seeking to increase product values. The configuration process involves a chain of decisions, which needs to be undertaken to create product variants that meet each client specific...
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Housing is perhaps the most common component of a community’s manufactured capital wealth stocks damaged or destroyed … by natural disasters. Consequently the restoration of housing in the recovery process takes on a paramount significance …. This significance is magnified by the complexity of housing restoration and the varying and specialised skill sets required …
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housing demand. In the absence of significant interventions from the public sector, the private sector has become responsible …. Future plans for post-disaster reconstruction of housing in Dhaka must address issues of growing demand, limitations of risk …-free land for development, ownership of land and housing, and limitations of resources.  …
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It is a well-known fact that global warming is the extraordinary threat facing the world. The main reasons of these are human activities. Human beings have been contributing to the global warming in different ways for many years. Right material and product selection are some of the most...
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has shifted its approach to housing development from the provision of housing to a sustainable human settlements approach …
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health sector. Housing care and other non-medical support is continuing to lag behind. Lack of proper housing is one of the …. This paper focuses on creating an understanding of why housing care and support for HIV and AIDS affected is lagging behind … reforms, the paper reviews the following: 1. The national housing policy's implications on the care and support for people …
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The background to this paper is the increasing interest in the relationship between housing and municipal services and … HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what, precisely, one has in mind when thinking that housing and … the relevance of housing and services to HIV prevention, but then demonstrates that housing and municipal services are …
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archival research, fieldwork, and semi-structured interviews, is the Kosuyolu Housing Settlement, a project dating to the 1950s … that represents one of Istanbul's best examples of urban development and housing culture. Displaying the architectural and … regarding social housing. Through this case, change in housing has been evaluated in terms of sustainability indicators. The …
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collection technologies on dwelling cases selected from a sample of recent housing developments in Concepción, Chile. Hour …
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During the post-World War II period, Turkey's housing supply models were limited to individual housings. Three main …, spontaneous squatter housing and the build-sell process. Build-sell process later became the most obvious reflection of urban … transformation in the 1950s and 1960s. Within this context, this study examines the housing policy of the period and the build …
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