The initial stages of construction implementation begin with planning, implementation, and operation. From each stage the project must be a green or environmentally friendly concept. Eco-friendly planning in residential buildings starts from use building materials, energy-efficient design concepts, economical development costs. In addition, houses also pay attention to health, such as ventilati...

The importance of container transportation is constantly increasing. For this reason, lower cost great for companies in by air, land, rail and sea domestic international markets. One way reducing the costs to utilize volume effectively. In study, a block-building based GRASP method proposed solving loading problem. results are compared with other methods heuristic or meta-heuristic algorithms l...

the research used the satellite image (landsat 7 etm ) within the thermal infrared sixth band (tir6) and geographic information system (gis) to determine the air pollution and its relationship with the land cover (lc) and land use (lu) of baghdad city. concentration of total suspended particles (tsp), lead (pb), carbon oxides (co, co2), and sulphur dioxide (so2) were obtained from 22 ground mea...

Introduction Many countries have committed to conserving significant amounts of their native biodiversity (McNeely et al. 1990). Biodiversity includes the diversity of ecosystems and the diversity between and within species. Establishing reserve systems dedicated to nature conservation is the cornerstone of most national, regional and state conservation strategies (Soulé 1991). In this chapter,...

This paper is about the story of Shangbu, an industrial district that has been regenerated into a retailing and commercial center in the socialist market economy of Shenzhen, China. The Shangbu Industrial District (SID) was first set up in the early 1980s at the western edge of the core of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) to attract foreign direct investment after China adoption of the...