The Biosphere Reserve (BR) model of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme reflects a shift towards more accountable conservation. Biosphere Reserves attempt to reconcile environmental protection with sustainable development; they explicitly acknowledge humans, and human interests in the conservation landscape while still maintaining the ecological values of existing protected areas. Conceptu...

Identifying the environmental impact of construction operations would be the first step to implement environmentally sustainable construction operations. To this end, it is essential to reliably estimate the emissions from construction equipment, which account for the largest share for the total impacts of construction operations. This paper presents a methodology to integrate discrete-event si...

Dünya nüfusunun artmasıyla beraber oluşturulacak yeni yerleşim yerlerinin oluşturulması inşaat sektörünün sürekli aktif olmasını sağlamaktadır. İnşaat sektöründe de en çok kullanılan yapı malzemelerinden biri agregadır. Agrega rezervlerinin kısıtlı kaynak olması sebebiyle bu malzemenin yerine geçebilecek malzeme arayışları sürmektedir. Özellikle ömrünü tamamlamış ve/veya doğal afetler sonucu gi...

In this workshop we discussed the progress and results of six Horizon 2020 projects—INSTRUCT, BIMEET, The nZEB Roadshow, TRAIN4SUSTAIN, HP4All, BUSLeague—about how to increase number skilled building professionals and/or blue-collar workers across design, operation, maintenance value chain (designers, architects, engineers, managers, technicians, installers, including apprentices, other profess...

While in the historic urban fabric of Iran's cities, there are numerous traditional buildings that have stood up for more than one hundred years, today's buildings, in spite of advanced construction technologies, are not comparable with those traditional ones in terms of resiliency and durability. The sustainable vernacular strategies in design and construction of these traditional houses are t...

This paper highlights how a flexible and adaptable approach to construction may contribute to the sustainable construction agenda. It explores the role of the adaptability of buildings in facilitating a realistic response to the challenges of sustainable construction. Techniques for defining the life cycle of an adaptable building are proposed and flexibility in design and construction as a mea...

The cooperative housing sector is directed at low and medium income residents who cannot afford to buy their homes in the regular private market. Due to social housing legislation, it is possible to build cooperative housing below regular market costs and use tax benefits, therefore providing affordable dwellings to their owners. Traditional cooperative housing used to provide less comfort and ...

the purpose of this research is to understand the position of conflict resolution in international system. it can be said that, conflict resolution has formed after the second world war in three stages: foundations, constructions, reconstructions. conflict resolution has effective role in recognition of the routs and causes of formation of military conflicts and establishing peace in national, ...