Relative to coal fired and natural gas fired power plants, nuclear power plants are more expensive to build but less expensive to run. This annex describes advanced construction methods to reduce nuclear power's construction costs, mainly by shortening the time needed to build a plant. Each of the methods described below has been used in one or more of the projects listed in Table IV-1. None is...

Jac A.M. Vennix received his Ph.D. from Nijmegen University and is currently full professor of research methodology at the Faculty of Management Sciences of Nijmegen University. He has conducted a large number of projects in a variety of organizations in the areas of system dynamics group model-building and (interactive) scenario construction. He has published a number of articles and books on ...

The environmental impacts have become a series of problems in today’s construction environments. Environmental conditions can an adverse impact on the duration, cost, and quality activities. This study is conducted to describe point out environment building projects sodo town. contractor estimate Productivity loss due activity be either partial or complete: generally attributed reduced labor pr...

Abstract Due to the rapid growth of building sector, a tremendous amount waste is generated, which has become an alarming issue for every country. Therefore, there substantial need implement sustainable way minimize construction solid (CSW), generated through activities. Construction management (CSWM) essential method fostering sustainability in industry. It considered as one indispensable adva...

The construction industry has significant environmental, social and economic impacts on the society. As a result, the last decades have witnessed the rapid growth of the green building sector in order to mitigate the negative impacts associated with construction related activities. Similar to conventional building projects, green building projects have a variety of objectives that may not neces...