Author:Kuchena, JC; Usiri, PDate:Sep 2009Low cost or affordable construction technologies and materials are often touted as a panacea in meeting the ever growing demand for rapid housing delivery in developing economies. Mozambique as with most of the developing world, from both ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Aug 2015Significant pressure is being brought to bear on material manufacturers to green the materials and products produced by industry in general – and the construction sector is no exception, for good reason. The construction industry and its ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Feb 2009The construction industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and the production and harvesting of raw materials for building purposes occurs on a world-wide scale. Environmental issues are becoming a major world topic, and the construction ...Read more
Author:Sebake, Thandi NDate:Feb 2009Since the detrimental affects of construction practices on the natural environment were highlighted, the performance of the buildings has become a major concern for occupants and built environment professionals (Crawley and Aho, 1999; Ding, ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NDate:Dec 2013The building industry consumes 50% of the raw materials extracted from the Earth’s crust annually and also plays a leading role in environmental pollution. Replacing synthetic materials with bio-composites has been shown to yield environmental ...Read more
Author:Anochie-Boateng, Joseph; Komba, Julius J; Mvelase, Gculisile MDate:Jun 2013There is a need to improve the measurements of shape characteristics of aggregates and ballast materials used in the construction of road, airfield, and railway track infrastructures. The fundamental shape properties of aggregate and ballast, ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:Mar 2014Waste is defined in the National Environment Management: Waste Act as: “Any substance, whether or not that substance can be reduced, re-used, recycled and recovered – a) That is surplus, unwanted, rejected, discarded, abandoned or disposed ...Read more