Growing Skills: Building Towards the Future

Towards Green Building: Sustainability Approach in Building Industrialization

Building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. Pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. Du...

Building for the Future

he integrated design process (IDP) is crucial in producing a green building. For purposes of this discussion, integrated design is defined as a process by which all of the design variables that affect one another are considered together and resolved in an optimal fashion. It could also be called holistic design in that it looks at the entire building as a whole, and emphasis is on integrating t...

Building for the future

As the staff of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology settle into their new building in Cambridge, its director Hugh Pelham explains the challenges of living up to its prestigious past.

Building Skills in the Informal Sector

2011 This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2012 report. It was presented at a Meeting of experts on " Expanding opportunities for the marginalized through skills development " organized by the GMR and BMZ in Bonn, Germany (3-4 November 2010). The paper has not been edited by the team. The views and opini...

Building References for the Future