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Assessing the impact of rail investment on housing prices in north-west Sydney

Ge Xin Janet; Macdonald Heather; Ghosh Sumita (PRRES, 2012)

Rail investments alter the accessibility and amenity of residential properties, and thus affect housing prices and overall affordability. This project investigates the impact of the Epping-Chatswood rail link in North-west ...
An assessment of construction labour productivity in Malaysia

Chia F; Skitmore Martin; Runeson Karl; Bridge A. (CIB, 2010)

The construction industry is one of major strategic importance. Its level of productivity has a significant effect on national economic growth. The analysis of published census/biannual surveys of construction by the ...
Auditory gesture for interactive installation environments

Jakovich Joanne; Beilharz Kirsty (CRC for Construction Innovation, 2006)

Auditory gestures are sound signals that represent spatially located information that can be stored or accessed by human gestural interaction in space. This document presents initial work to develop a model of auditory ...
Australian Construction: Directions, Causes and Trends

Higgins David; Runeson Goran; Chang Xinling; Gajendran Thayparan (University of Newcastle, 2003)
The Australian Quantity Surveying Profession

Smith Peter (China Engineering Cost Association, 2005)

This paper provides an overview of the Australian Quantity Surveying profession in Australia. The paper will start with an overview of the Australian Construction Industry and Quantity Surveying Profession generally and ...
Automated quantities technology - challenges facing the Australian quantity surveying profession

Smith Peter (Singapore Institute of Surveyors and valuers, 2006)

This paper examines the challenges facing the Australian Quantity Surveying profession in the use of automated quantities technology. The paper is based on research by a team from the University of Technology Sydney involving ...
Automated Quantities Technology - Challenges Facing the Australian Quantity Surveying Profession

Smith Peter (Singapore Institute of Surveyors & Valuers, 2006)

This paper examines the challenges facing the Australian Quantity Surveying profession in the use ofautomated quantities technology. The paper is based on research by a team from the University of Technology Sydney involving ...
Backward-bending new housing supply curve: evidence from China

Ge Xin Janet; Yan Siqi (PRRES, 2012)

This paper tests the existence of a backward-bending housing supply relationship in China, and estimates price elasticity of new housing supply for 35 major Chinese cities. Based on the panel data model of 35 cities, it ...
Benchmarking the versatility of construction management education in a global perspective

Doloi Hemanta; Sawhney Anil; Iyer K (Australasian Universities Building Education Association, 2010)

Benchmarking the versatility of construction management education in a global perspective
Beyond tradition: a systems-based definition of sustainable transport development

Baumann Christiane; Zeibots Michelle (Society for Sustainability & Environmental Engineering, 2009)

This paper attempts to provide a definition of sustainable urban transport development. As will be shown, while the need to develop transport in a sustainable way has been widely accepted by many governments and transport ...
Briefing and Reframing

Paton Rebecca; Dorst Kees (DAB documents, 2010)

The ability to reframe a problematic situation in new and interesting ways is widely seen as one of the key characteristics of design thinking, and as one that would lend itself to application beyond the traditional design ...
Building for Strategic Advantage - Lessons from post-occupancy studies of low energy architecture in India

Thomas Leena (Elsevier, 2006)

The Torrent Research Centre and Transport Corporation of lndia Headquarters buildings in India were developed in response to client briefs for low energy architecture and have previously been reported as exemplars of ...
The Cairo museum, the national museum of Athens, the ancient Iran museum and the Louvre: curatorial practices from east to west and back

Manasseh Cyrus (Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, 2006)

This paper will reveal the influence of the Louvre upon museums of the East. It will do this via examination and discussion of the relationship between the Louvre, Cairo Museum, National Museum of Athens and Ancient Iran ...
Can existing usability techniques prevent tomorrow's usability problems?

Harkema Christelle; Luyk Ilse; Dorst Kees; Brombacher Aarnout Cornelis (The Design Society, 2011)

Product usability is a product quality that ensures efficient and effective products which satisfy users. In spite of the many usability techniques that are available many users still experience usability problems when ...
Can we make affordable, accessible housing financially feasible in Sydney?

Macdonald Heather (The University of Auckland, 2010)

Stimulating affordable, accessible infill development is essential if Sydneyâ¿¿s housing deficit is to be reduced without the environmental impacts of large scale Greenfield development. But despite a Metro Strategy that ...
Carbon Property Rights in Soil

Sheehan John; Kanas O (PRRES, 2008)

The commodification of soil to permit carbon sequestration and hence trading in the resultant carbon rights is examined as an emerging facet of climate change management. As the developed world moves towards carbon offsets ...
A Case Study: Articulating Embodied Practice with Poise

Robinson Todd (University of Creative Arts, UK., 2011)

Abstract: In this paper I will examine the role artefacts play in the context of a practice-based research project. Alone artefacts would not constitute research but I will present a Case Study examining how a self-produced ...
Catching up with Now: Temporality and Contemporality in Museums

Stead Naomi (Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand, 2002)

Perhaps there is always an unspoken, hidden question at the heart of any call for papers, and certainly there was in this one. The original call was necessarily broad. It began with the general observation that the ...
A Causal Model of Residential Housing Prices in Hong Kong

Ge Xin Janet; Runeson Karl; Lam Kai-Chi (China Architecture & Building Press, 2003)

The traditional multiple regression analysis is widely acknowledged as a reliable technique and acceptable forecasting performance. This study examines the role of population growth, household income, and transaction volume ...
Challenges for Architectural History and Criticism: The Super-sized Office and the Transdiciplinary Studio

Kaji-O'Grady Sandra (SAHANZ, 2008)

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