Combating with immense competition now a day‟s banks are focusing upon customer satisfaction rather than merely rendering their services in the Indian banking industry. Due to the tough competition in banking sector, paradigm changes are seen in this sector. Various innovations are witnessed in this field, because banking sector is adopting innovative ways to improve their services & to win the...

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...

Organised in public or private structures, wastewater services have to cope with different framework conditions as regards planning, construction, financing and operation. This leads quite often to different modes of management. In recent years there has been a push for privatisation on the water sector in general, the reasons for which are manifold, ranging from access to external know-how and...

Knowledge intensive services (KIS) have a key role in the creation and commercialisation of new products, processes and services. They are fundamental as carriers and creators of both technological and organisational innovation. Furthermore, the availability to firms of KIS in their surroundings positively affects their ability to innovate and contribute to regional development. Nevertheless, l...

BACKGROUND Although India's health policy is directed toward improving adolescent reproductive health, adolescent-friendly health services are scarce. The intervention for "integrating adolescent-friendly health services into the public health system" is an effort to improve the health status of adolescents in rural areas of the Varanasi (Arajiline) and Bangalore (Hosakote) districts in India. ...

In the construction sector wastes and problems concerning logistics and supply chain management are widely found, and they are some of the important interfering factors for improving efficiency and productivity within the sector. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a well developed and adapted approach for logistics and supply chain managements in other industries, such as automotive. This thesis...

The online observation of a construction site and processes bears significant advantage to all business sector. BIM is the combination of a 3D model of the project and a project-planning program which improves the project planning model by up to 6D (Adding Time, Cost and Material Information dimensions to the model). RFID technology is an appropriate information synchronization tool between the...

Operations in construction and real estate sector are increasingly networked. Practically this appears as a very high share of subcontracting, and recently the outsourcing as a lasting trend has even strengthened this phenomenon. In a major construction project the project manager and the company (s)he is representing can be connected to tens or even several hundred different partners who each ...