This paper displays how to derive the factors of Ubiquitous Sensor Network (hereafter, USN) technology that comprise inspection, plan, construction and maintenance ahead of launching construction of intercity highways that are the key to civil constructions for urbanization. And it also shows the plan of USN technologies currently adopted in each process of construction areas, grouped into Tunn...

In 1999, the Singapore Government envisioned a need to transform the construction industry through the Construction 21 Blueprint by a strategic vision. In line with the broader plan to develop Singapore into a knowledgedriven economy, this industry aspires to become ‘a World Class Builder in the Knowledge Age’. And earlier, as part of the IT 2000 master plan for Singapore, the Construction Real...

Hong Kong possesses one of the world’s largest public housing stocks which provide accommodation for 3.1 million people. To meet the growing need for public housing, the government has committed to produce 50,000 public flat units (plus 35,000 units from private developers) a year as its long term housing policy. To meet this production target, contractors are facing with the challenge to furth...

Residential Accommodation and Day Centres The proposals put forward for hostels vary considerably : the majority see the need for something extra and some plan special hostels for the aged and mentally infirm; some for patients discharged from mental hospitals; some use the hostels of voluntary organisations, some their own. Little is said about the need to collaborate with mental hospitals but...

The Core Plan Representation (Pease 1997) is a schema for the representation of plan information which is independent of any particular method of plan construction. It has been developed as an ontology and implemented as an object oriented design. Now in its second phase, the generic plan design has been specialized for several areas of military planning – the Warplan. This specialization and i...

It’s difficult for China’s current land transfer institutions limited to county-wide to solve the contradiction between urban-rural development and construction land shortage. On the basis of analyzing China’s construction land transfer system, and evaluation toward Transfer of development rights (TDR) practices in Anhui and Chongqing, the passage proposes: (1) we should establish a multi-level...

purpose: to study the prevalence and characteristics of accommodative esotropia (aet). methods: in a descriptive analytic study records of all patients referred from 1383 to 1388 to the strabismus clinic at nikookari eye center were reviewed and demographic data such as age, gender, refractive error, type of aet, mean deviation and amblyopia were analyzed. results: a total of 2,146 patients wer...

How to solve the emergency properly has been an important aspect to test the administrative ability of governments. Emergency plans describe the domain knowledge of emergency handling, which is the basis of high-efficient response, and it’s necessary to share knowledge in emergency plans among participating organizations. Presently, knowledge representation and sharing is becoming the mainstrea...