Purpose While previous studies have highlighted the importance of incorporating environmental sustainability in building designs, there is a paucity that assess extent to which design teams developing countries consider at stage. Therefore, using Zambia as case study, this study examined infrastructure country Design/methodology/approach The used qualitative research approach structured intervi...

The article presents the issue of designing a network electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) for servicing passenger and commercial vehicles taking into account already existing locations. authors propose five-stage multicriteria- GIS-based EVCS location methodology (5MAGISEV) that includes defining potential locations (stage 1), constructing family evaluation criteria 2), generating altern...

Overlaying a virtual infrastructure over a physical network is a time-honored strategy for conquering scale. There are, essentially, two approaches for building such an infrastructure. The first is to design the virtual infrastructure in support of a specific protocol, routing, for example. However, more often than not, the resulting infrastructure is not useful for other purposes. The alternat...