GFRG Panels in Construction: A Potential Solution to Material Limitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snehal Ashok Salvi ◽  
Vishal Jadhav ◽  
Nandini Pate ◽  
Vaishali Kamade ◽  
Janhavi Deshpande ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Housing Shortage ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Existing Housing ◽  
Timely Delivery

Abstract There is a huge growing requirement of building materials in India due to the existing housing shortage of 24.7 million units mainly for the low-income groups in urban India. Use of rapid techniques for timely delivery of construction projects by adopting fast methodologies and alternate building materials is necessary in India, given the tremendous housing shortage. Further, the construction has to be affordable and also sustainable. The construction technique proposed in this project, by making use of Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) panels (with reinforced concrete infilled cavities) to build homes, promises such a solution for rapid affordable mass housing in India. GFRG building system is a rapid building technology composed of prefabricated wall panel load bearing system. GFRG is also an eco-friendly building material which can be manufactured out of either natural or industrial gypsum.

Investigate the Factors Affecting Green Building Projects In Iraq Towards Building Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadhum Raheem ◽  
◽  
Hayder Fadhil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Conservation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Toxic Materials ◽  
Building Process

The process of construction can be defined as an extensive system that builds the accommodations for people to settle in, as well as the construction of facilities that keep up the development process. Some of the main steps that the process would cover are the extracting and benefiting raw materials, manufacture of building materials and elements, the construction of the project run from viability to inspection, and the regulation and running process of the sites. The most profound challenges that many cities n Iraq share illustrate the consequences of urban growth. Thus, this study seeks to examine the aspects of sustainability that influence the decisions for the process of building up green building projects. A total number of fourty respondents have been requested to evaluate nine elements of building sustainability: life cycle evaluations, energy conservation and renewable energies, water conservation, environmentally friendly construction supplies and standards, depletion of waste materials, alleviation of toxic materials, adequate indoor ventilation, smart innovation, and sustainability in the development of the building process and ecologically friendly construction projects. The findings show that the respondents preferred the use of elements that could give better sustainability in the process of construction building to ensure a healthier and better quality of life. This preference is established from the concept of green building technology. The most chosen aspect for this concept is the efficiency of energy and the use of renewable energy, followed by the alleviation of toxic materials, adequate indoor ventilation, and water conservation.

Planetary gentrification and urban (re)development

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loretta Lees
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Low Income Groups

Abstract Gentrification is no-longer, if it ever was, a small scale process of urban transformation. Gentrification globally is more often practised as large scale urban redevelopment. It is state-led or state-induced. The results are clear – the displacement and disenfranchisement of low income groups in favour of wealthier in-movers. So, why has gentrification come to dominate policy making worldwide and what can be done about it?

scholarly journals Mosquito Vector Production across Socio-Economic Divides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1420
Author(s):  
Rebeca de Jesús Crespo ◽  
Madison Harrison ◽  
Rachel Rogers ◽  
Randy Vaeth
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Baton Rouge ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
Mosquito Larvae ◽  
Mosquito Vector ◽  
Mosquito Vectors ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

We investigated the role of socio-economic factors in the proliferation of mosquito vectors in two adjacent but socio-economically contrasting neighborhoods in Baton Rouge, LA, USA. We surveyed mosquito larvae habitat, mosquito larvae, and adult mosquitoes during the summer of 2020. We also evaluated the number of requests for mosquito abatement services in the years preceding the study for each area. While we did not find differences in terms of the most abundant species, Culex quinquefasicatus (F1,30 = 0.329, p = 0.57), we did find a higher abundance of mosquito habitats, particularly discarded tires, as well as larvae (z = 13.83, p < 0.001) and adults (F1,30 = 4.207, p = 0.049) of the species Aedes albopictus in the low-income neighborhood. In contrast, mosquito abatement requests were significantly higher in the high socio-economic neighborhood (z = −8.561, p < 0.001). This study shows how factors such as adjudicated properties, discarded tires and pest abatement requests can influence the abundance of mosquito vectors, disproportionately affecting low-income groups. This study also highlights how Aedes spp. may be better indicators than Culex spp. of socio-economic differences between nearby neighborhoods, due to their short flight range and habitat preferences, and this should be considered in future studies attempting to detect such disparities in the future.

scholarly journals Spatial Accessibility to Local Public Services in an Unequal Place: An Analysis from Patterns of Residential Segregation in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago, Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 442
Author(s):  
Yasna Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Spatial Association ◽  
Spatial Accessibility ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Local Public Services ◽  
Low Income Groups

The study of the relationship between the provision of local public services and residential segregation is critical when it might be the social manifestation of spatial income inequality. This paper analyzes how the spatial accessibility to local public services is distributed equitably among different social and economic groups in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago (MR), Chile. To accomplish this objective, I use accessibility measures to local public services such as transportation, public education, healthcare, kindergartens, parks, fire and police stations, cultural infrastructure, and information about housing prices and exempted housing units from local taxes by block, as well as quantile regressions and bivariate Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA). The main results confirm the accessibility to local public services is unequally distributed among residents. However, it affects more low-income groups who are suffering from significant deficits in the provision of local public services. In this scenario, poor residents face a double disadvantage due to their social exclusion from urban systems and their limited access to essential services such as education, healthcare, or transportation. In particular, I found that social residential segregation might be reinforced by insufficient access to local infrastructure that the most impoverished population should assume.

A knowledge-based planning assessment approach for timely delivery of construction projects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Ershadi ◽  
Marcus Jefferies ◽  
Peter Davis ◽  
Mohammad Mojtahedi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Knowledge Based Planning ◽  
Timely Delivery

Near-Drowning

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
Debra H. Fiser
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
King County ◽  
Near Drowning ◽  
Time Period ◽  
States Data ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Bodies Of Water

Definition Drowning is defined as death caused by submersion, whereas near-drowning connotes survival for some time period following submersion. The following remarks pertain to the near-drowning victim who presents for acute medical management. Epidemiology Because reporting of near-drowning incidents is incomplete, most of the available epidemiologic information focuses on drowning deaths, which number more than 6500 per year in the United States. Data from King County, Washington, however, suggest that near-drownings slightly out-number drownings. Drowning rates are highest for children under the age of 5 years and between the ages of 15 and 24 years. Males drown 4 times more frequently than females. African-Americans and low-income groups also are affected disproportionately, except for those drownings involving boats and residential swimming pools, which more often are owned by middle class groups. Drownings peak during the summer months and are most common in the southern and western United States and Alaska. Forty to 45% of all drownings occur while the victim is swimming and 12% to 29% are boat-related. Alcohol plays a substantial role in these deaths. Between one half and three quarters of all drownings occur in lakes, ponds, rivers, and the ocean. More than 40% of all submersions in these bodies of water involve older adolescents or young adults.

Factors of the current growth of the value of investment-and-construction projects implementation in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
E.Yu. Vasilyeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Price Dynamics ◽  
Current Growth ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Major Factors

The author analyses the factors, which affected the volume of actual costs of investment-and-construction projects in 2020-2021 most of all. The three major factors, including price dynamics in the market of building materials, situation in the market of construction tools and equipment as well as the trends in the transport-and-logistic sphere are considered. The order of modification of the Technique of drawing up the estimate of the contract on the project, caused by the growth of costs for the used materials is described. The conclusions on the prerequisites of the rise in price of the realization value of the construction projects in current and following year are drawn.

New Trends in Interaction of Developed and Developing Countries in Innovation Sphere

2012 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
A. Eroshkin ◽  
M. Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Adaptive Nature

The economic and innovative rise of the developing states stimulated a deep restructuring of the existing system of international relations in science and technology sphere. As the article points, one of the main manifestations of this trend can be seen in the transformation of global innovation strategies of transnational corporations. The world’s largest TNCs, mostly based in the industrial nations, have begun to transfer growing segments and parts of their R&D programs to the developing countries in order to take advantage of their increased research capacity. As a result, the nature of the projects being implemented there by the TNCs is changing. Historically, the TNCs’ local R&D activities were of adaptive nature. Namely, the stress was made on modification of the products and services offered by the TNCS globally to the specifics of local markets. Currently, a growing number of transnational corporations are implementing the large-scale programs in the developing countries aimed at designing new types of products, including those targeted at the low-income groups of consumers that make up the bulk of the population in developing countries.

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