The current urban design process is top-down, i.e., generally the urban designers or planners design the urban environment and at a later stage the community may have some involvement. There are serious criticisms of this ...

Road paving plays a vital aspect in urban development prospect. "Uni Natural" Interlocking blocks (Size: 220mm x 110mm x 80mm) are becoming very common in many parts of the country. With the initial field studies; it was ...

Urbanization causes population growth and physical expansion of built-up area in cities and its suburb. It puts immense pressure on natural resources, conversation of agricultural land and degradation of water, air qualities ...

The project-based settings in construction hinder the transfer of knowledge from one project to a future project. Hence, new knowledge created within construction projects should need to pass to the organisation level and ...

Until now, little has been known about the climate change reductions that might be offered by reusing and retrofitting existing buildings rather than demolishing and replacing them with new construction. This life cycle ...

In recent years, the higher education community has played an increasingly important role in moving disaster science from a responsive, primarily technical discipline, to a broad, multi-disciplinary movement that seeks to ...

This research focused on the impact of the city has on the functioning of an urban railway station. Methodology for this study has derived from Node / Place categorization for railway stations introduced by Bertolini, and ...

Human perceptions on their environment are an important aspect that has to be considered in the development construction works to meet the common final goal of a sustainable and satisfactory project. Of the perceptions, ...

Individual student satisfaction rates with shared space in student housing vary. Assuming that sharing spaces is a trend towards a more sustainable way of life, there is need to have an understanding of the ways it can be ...

The spatial qualities enhanced through his architectural approach are often talked of due to the positive emotional responses from those who experience the spaces. It has been said that spatial progression in Bawa’s ...