Abstract Upcycling – creation or modification of a product from used waste materials, components, and products for higher quality value incorporates multiple strategies increasing material efficiency provides other environmental, economic social benefits. With growing concern the environment, past few years have seen growth upcycling practitioners businesses, yet despite such growth, largely re...

Brent D. Ryan first visited Detroit in 1993. Describing this experience, he says: ‘‘The sense of emptiness was overpowering. ... I felt as if I was walking into the ruin of America.’’ In his book ‘‘Design after decline—how America rebuilds shrinking cities,’’ Ryan tries to understand why so many American cities have been losing population, what was and is done to change the fortune of these cit...

Concern over polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in foodstuffs was started during the 1960s and 1970s, where two classes of food toxicants producing tumours have been focused i.e. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and N-nitroso compounds (Jägerstad and Skog, 2005). PAHs are referring to a series of organic compound containing two or more fused aromatic rings (Danyi et al., 2009; El-Ba...

Field measurements are critical to further understand the structural behavior of super-tall buildings under strong wind actions. This paper presents field that reflect characteristics and effects on Leatop Plaza Typhoon Vicente. Wind characteristics, including turbulence intensity, gust factor, power spectral density speed in an urban area, were obtained basis a statistical analysis measured da...

The traffic capacity of the highway toll plaza is studied in this paper. This model is based on M/M/c and M/G/K queuing system. The process of the vehicles pass through the toll plaza can be divided into two parts: entering system and departing system. Considering the reality that the highway traffic flow increases year by year, two models are proposed in this paper: (a) Find out the optimal nu...

The spread of plaza-pyramid complexes across southern Mesoamerica during the early Middle Preclassic period (1000 to 700 BCE) provides critical information regarding the origins of lowland Maya civilization and the role of the Gulf Coast Olmec. Recent excavations at the Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala, documented the growth of a formal ceremonial space into a plaza-pyramid complex that predated ...

An RTK-GPS system has been installed for the purpose of monitoring the behaviour of a high rise building in Singapore. This system will contribute to a project of monitoring that commenced in 1995 with the installation of two pairs of accelerometers and two UVW anemometers. The aim of this project is to capture the building loading and dynamic response during strong winds and remote earthquakes...

Climate change enhances pluvial flood risk in many cities all over the world, especially densely populated urban areas with high impervious surfaces that need to adapt heavy precipitation. For this purpose, multifunctional stormwater infrastructures such as water plazas appear promising there is a competition for open space most areas. Yet, date only very few have been realized at least one imp...

This article integrates the global value chain literature with micro organization on negative emotions to explore drivers of fear and anger among supplier factory senior managers in apparel supply chains after Rana Plaza—a major industrial disaster—and their influence decisions CSR practices. Based a comparative study around Dhaka Lahore—two key manufacturing hubs—this elucidates that experienc...