Introduction Since the earl y 1990s, housing associations have been promoted by central government and encouraged to become mainstream providers of social-rented housing for low-income fa mil ies. An accompanying shift in the role of the local authorities was envisaged, towards their becoming enablers of a range of housing options, with less emphasis on direct public-housing provision. However,...

Studies about high-rise housing can be characterised by their diversity and disagreement. A variety of interpretations has been used to study the rationale and practices of constructing housing of this kind. The ambiguity of high-rise housing is partly related to the fact that the values and functions attributed to it have varied from continent to continent, between regions and within specific ...

Information concerning the home and workplace of residents is the basis of analyzing the urban job-housing spatial relationship. Traditional methods conduct time-consuming user surveys to obtain personal job and housing location information. Some new methods define rules to detect personal places based on human mobility data. However, because the travel patterns of residents are variable, simpl...

This paper deals with the issue of colonization of peripheral housing schemes by taking Lahore as a case study. It not only presents an analysis of the dynamics of the colonization process but also discusses the policy options to enhance colonization in peripheral housing schemes. The paper concludes that a more systematic approach is needed for generating house building activity in peripheral ...

Supply chain partnerships within housing refurbishment have not been given much specific attention which may be found surprising because the refurbishment market is becoming of increasing importance compared to new construction and has specific characteristics that require adapted approaches to supply chain integration. In this paper approaches, expected benefits and challenges of supply chain ...

Stephen Mulva, Texas State University-San Marcos Stephen has spent the past ten years creating, developing, and implementing new concepts, systems, and solutions for complex problems facing the construction industry and its constituent companies. Working in both academic and commercial settings, he has successfully formulated and managed numerous initiatives to improve the financial and operati...

Data warehousing has emerged as one of the most powerful tools in delivering information to users. In this paper, we Ž . examine data warehousing at the Housing and Development Board HDB , which is responsible for providing affordable, high-quality public housing to Singapore citizens. The HDB embarked on building a data warehouse because access to the diverse and large amount of data in its op...

the aim of this paper is to review the created problems and failure of environmental design patterns in designing process by designers. not respectfully addressing the context of environment during designing process have resulted in the loss quality of environment, damage to both nature and essence of environment as manifested in the case study area. methodology of the research was based on the...