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Demands on the construction industry are changing, and it is now
virtually essential for environmental management to be considered
at all stages of a project. Many construction managers are finding
a quantitative approach useful, and this book outlines four
quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction
stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). These include: a method to
quantitatively evaluate and reduce pollution and hazards levels a
method to evaluate the environmental-consciousness of proposed
construction plans a method to reduce on-site construction wastes
through an incentive reward programme a method to promote C and D
waste exchange in the local construction industry. With an
experimental case study of the application of these methods, this
book delivers a comprehensive review of environmental management
issues in construction. With regulatory requirements potentially
favouring the quantitative approach, this timely guide ensures that
contractors will be able to keep pace with environmental management
standards.
As the construction industry changes the need for the effective
incorporation of environmental considerations has become widely
accepted. It is now being enforced effectively in many countries.
Large numbers of construction managers can find value in adopting
quantitative approach to environmental management, and this book
outlines an integrative methodology for applying knowledge-based
dynamic environmental impact assessment in construction.
Four quantitative methods are presented for the application of the
techniques at different construction stages, fitting within a
comprehensive framework of dynamic Environmental Impact Assessment
(EIA). These are a method to quantitatively evaluate and reduce
pollution and hazards levels, a method to evaluate the
environmental-consciousness of proposed construction plans and
select the best one, a method to reduce on-site construction wastes
through an incentive reward programme, and a method to promote
C&D waste exchange in the local construction industry. Finally,
the implementation of the integrative analytical approach is
illustrated using an experimental case study.
Contractors should be able to conduct effective, efficient and
economical environmental management and achieve their targets in
line with governmental laws and regulations, the ISO 14001
environmental management system (EMS), or environmental management
standards within their enterprises. Most environmental management
tools used at present are qualitative, but potential requirements
are quantitative, so this book fills the need.
A characterization is given for the factorizations of almost simple
groups with a solvable factor. It turns out that there are only
several infinite families of these non-trivial factorizations, and
an almost simple group with such a factorization cannot have socle
exceptional Lie type or orthogonal of minus type. The
characterization is then applied to study s-arc-transitive Cayley
graphs of solvable groups, leading to a striking corollary that,
except for cycles, a non-bipartite connected 3-arc-transitive
Cayley graph of a finite solvable group is necessarily a normal
cover of the Petersen graph or the Ho?man-Singleton graph.
Deformation Based Processing of Materials: Behavior, Performance,
Modeling and Control focuses on deformation based process behaviors
and process performance in terms of the quality of the needed
shape, geometries, and the requested properties of the deformed
products. In addition, modelling and simulation is covered to
create an in-depth and epistemological understanding of the
process. Other topics discussed include ways to efficiently reduce
or avoid defects and effectively improve the quality of deformed
parts. The book is ideal as a technical document, but also serves
as scientific literature for engineers, scientists, academics,
research students and management professionals involved in
deformation based materials processing.
Utilizing a central-porous medium for a liquid fuel film combustor
is an effective method to increase the contact surface area and
conduction heat transfer for liquid fuel vaporization and flame
stabilization. Based on this concept, a meso-scale liquid fuel film
combustor with a central porous inlet was theoretically analyzed
and confirmed its feasibility. The effects of porous material type
and bead size on the flame structures and combustion
characteristics are examined. Porous media made of stainless steel
and bronze are tested in the meso- scale combustor with different
fuel and air flow rates, equivalence ratios, and bead sizes. The
flame structure and its corresponding stabilization mechanism are
different between the stainless steel and the bronze porous media
combustor. Eventually, applying the present central-porous fuel-
film combustor in TPV system was demonstrated. An infrared thermal
tube replaces the chamber wall of fuel-film combustor and doubles
as an emitter. Integrating commercial PV cells with the infrared
thermal combustor was tested and examined by the I-V analyzer.
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