Abstract: Residential buildings in the US are substantial energy consumers, accounting for 39% of the country’s electricity usage and 22% of its total energy consumption. The dynamics of this consumption are intricately linked to ...

Abstract: In the construction industry, one of the most important concerns of organizations is how to achieve a balance between the desired level of quality and the expenses associated with it. The evaluating of the cost of quality ...

Abstract: Residential buildings are one of the major consumers of energy in the United States. The existing housing stock can be targeted for energy-efficient interventions through energy retrofits. Improving the energy performance ...

Abstract: The effectiveness of a quality program implemented during the initial 18 months of the Qom monorail project in Iran is examined. A quality costing exercise was undertaken, and it was revealed that quality failures accounted ...

Abstract: Building energy retrofits aim to reduce the energy consumption of existing facilities. The most significant impact of any energy retrofit project is during the operation phase of a building, when a building’s users are ...

Abstract: Wage inequality is a source of many social and economic problems, and is the target of mitigating programs both nationally and internationally. The primary step toward developing effective programs to reduce or eliminate ...