In Malaysia, housing construction industry is moving towards quality.Many construction companies have implemented several Quality Management System (QMS) for instance ISO 9001 and TQM in managing projects to ensure the quality of products. However, aspect of quality in newly built housing are remains an issue. Thus, a survey had been conducted among three construction professionals comprising: ...

JEL classification: R21 R31 Construction quality is a major problem in China's housing market. We investigate whether the housing market could provide incentives to encourage developers to promote construction quality beyond the compulsory, minimum standards by testing the financial viability of efforts made in this field by developers. This study takes place in the city of Beijing, where the “...

Refurbishment work involves improvement, adaptation, upgrading, renovation, modernization, retrofit, and repair of existing housing. With limited land usage and being aware of sustainability, the refurbishment market has faced increasing needs worldwide in the last decade. Refurbishment projects on existing housing, however, have complex and uncertain characteristics that are recognized to be m...

This study examines urban quality of life by assessing the relationship between observed socioeconomic conditions and urban forest amenities in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. Using remote-sensing methods and techniques, and ordinary least squares regression, the paper determines the relationship between urban leaf area and a population density parameter with median income and median housing value. ...

This paper aims to clarify the underlying basis for the observed differences in the consumption of school quality associated with race, education, and income. In particular, I attempt to distinguish whether these differences are driven primarily by differences in preferences for schooling itself or by variation in other factors that affect the residential location, school, and housing choices o...

Continuous improvement is a reflection of the culture of a company whose goal is to respond to the needs of its customers. It may not only result in better customer satisfaction, but in increased productivity, profitability and employee satisfaction. This paper presents a study of how a continuous improvementbased quality management system might be implemented in the modular housing industry. F...

Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational attainment of fourteen years old students in England. To identify the causal impact, this study exploits the t...

banberz, banbor, and sabziabad neighborhoods are three residential districts on the peripheryof ilam city, and are facing a lot of problems namely social, economic, and physical, particularly in housing sectorincluding low quality, poor housing, limited-quantity housing. in order to assess the sustainability of housing, 75indicators and to rank districts, spss software (exploratory factor analy...