Abstract: Energy conservation is an important issue in building design. Therefore, it is logical to apply the principle of energy costing to building projects and to look for ways to minimize the total energy consumed during the ...

Abstract: In Japan, the number of houses available exceeds the demand in all prefectures. Improving housing quality has gained importance over building new dwelling stock. The thrust of housing policies and programs in Japan is to ...

Abstract: Adequate shelter for all is one of the most pressing challenges faced by developing countries. Based on its census of 1991, India had a shortage of 18.5 million houses in 1991, and this number would have swollen since then. ...

Abstract: In a housing market model, the supply of housing, particularly new houses, is usually treated in a very cursory fashion, with new housing being regarded as homogeneously good and building cost function defined as a function ...

Abstract: Over the last three decades, public–private partnership projects have emerged as strong alternative service delivery mechanisms to conventional public sector initiatives. The results, however, have been a mix of failures ...