[PDF] Top 20 The construction industry and the challenges of the milennium development goals

... The construction industry has historically been linked with the process of industrialisation and urbanisation, particularly since the advent of the ... See full document

... results of this study showed that, in spite of a growing amount of publications in the past years that are related to mining and sustainability, the main focus of these ... See full document

... clear and direct challenges for both individual countries and global communities (Imai et ...2010) and demonstrate the priority areas to improve peoples’ lives in developing countries ... See full document

... in the construction industry. The main programs were, mainly established in five different counties: CDT in Chile, CII benchmarking and metrics in USA, SISIND-NET in Brazil and ... See full document

... structure and managerial aspects. The principal organizations involved in Soviet military science and technology were subordinate to the defense industrial ministries and Party’s ... See full document

... by the emergence of an unprecedented technical-scientific revolution, driven by advances in new products and devices with ...nanotechnologies. The number of nanotechnology-based ... See full document

... [30]. Construction subcontractors are often engaged in complex relationships both horizontally ...contractor) and vertically (i.e. in the case of pyramid of multilayered ...with ... See full document

... in the CI as a whole lagged behind other industries. The reportedly low ICT usage in construction SMEs, despite the purported availability of ICT solutions with good return on ... See full document

... from the perspective of young activists, social entrepreneurs and the regional dimension of the United Nations reform ...Finland and Rebecca Freitag from Germany ... See full document

... Footwear industry is one of the most active national business ...this industry demand for eco- and bio-products, the development of novel composites, based on ... See full document

... CHALLENGES OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY IN FACE OF THE NEEDS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL ...INDUSTRY. The development of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric ... See full document

... some of our most complex challenges throughout times and will in the future be our hope to solve rising issues we might come ...allowed the development of complex tools ... See full document

... equity industry was experiencing a phenomenal boom at the turn of the century but collapsed abruptly in 2008 with the onset of the financial ...one of the ... See full document

... that of a limited number of Goals which are comprehensive, time-bound, measurable, and universally applicable) sets these instruments apart from each of the past accomplishments ... See full document

... action of price ...action and construction of new infrastructures of pro- vision, in which well-being is not wholly tied to con- sumption (Cohen et ...material and energy ... See full document

... for the public sector, choice of the procurement system is decided by the government, for example in 1990s where the system has been modified to respond to faster project ...changes ... See full document

... CHALLENGES OF THE BRAZILIAN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY. The paper traces a panorama of the development of new drugs and hopes to contribute for Brazil to ... See full document

... without the need to culture the pathogenic organism have been successfully obtained (4), with the added advantage of abolishing the risk of residual virulence, the major ... See full document

... part of a more complete robot. The RA is a programmable manipulator, composed of rotational or linear segments that control the precision of their movements (Harris, ...On the ... See full document

... purpose of this paper is to investigate the cost management practices of building industry companies of Paraná that follow the typology of Porter´s ...strategies.  ... See full document