Hong Kong’s construction industry has shown substantial improvement in safety over the past decade. Many safety measures have been implemented such as Independent Safety Audit Scheme, The Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series etc. With the help from Logit model, this chapter aims at...

The essence of sustainable development stresses the co-development of social, environment and economics. With the help from Rostow’s Stages of Growth Model, we try to figure out the stage where India is now currently in. As many of the previous studies show that there are serious pollution...

Global environmental problems have become one of the major concerns all over the World. Environmental issues have long been regarded as the cross border issues and externalities problem. Pollution in one country, such as nitrogen oxides produced from construction sites in China not only worsens...

The internet has gained popularity in recent years. It provides a lot of useful information to all countries, both the rich and the ones that might be classed as economically backwards. While our predecessors could only obtain information by reading printed books and magazines, which can be...

Modern underground space planning knowledge sharing no longer depends on face-to-face meetings, lectures or phone calls only. The conventional read-only Web 1.0 designed by HTML helps us know about the World wide underground space planning. Nevertheless, during the era of Web 1.0, online users...

The concept of sustainable development - development which meets the needs of the present generation without depriving the needs of the future generation — has been in the lips of many political leaders, educators, NGOs and green groups. Living in the age of knowledge explosion, we want to...

Hospital building design is important as it is the place where bacteria and microorganisms concentrate. Poor ventilation system and layout traps disease causing pathogens, threatens the lives of many frontline workers such as doctors, nurses, and health care assistants. While design knowledge...

Law, economics and finance issues in Singapore’s housing development board flats -- Internalization of environmental externality in dwellings: review of court cases in Hong Kong in the past two decades -- The institutional analysis of fittings in residential units -- Asymmetric information and...

This paper examines residential property development in the Chinese cities of Harbin and Shanghai in 2001-07. It reveals that development firms generally only built one residential development during the study period, which contrasts with the situation in most developed countries, where large,...

In Hong Kong, dwellings are fitted with neat and tidy paintings, well decorated floor and wall tiles. Equipped with world�renowned kitchen and bathroom appliance, housing owners can move in with a bag of cloths. Builders in China, however, only provide fundamental elements such as windows,...