Opportunities for Practicing Sustainable Building Construction in Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Shawkat, Lawand Wirya; Al-Din, Salar Salah Muhy; Kuzović, Duško

doi:10.25034/ijcua.2018.3665

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“…The most commonly mentioned factors in the articles were identified. Later, to determine whether similar factors are needed in the Kurdistan region, those factors were compared to the literature of Kurdistan construction and similar challenges were found (Abramzon et al, 2016;Mustafa, 2017;RTI International, 2008;Shawkat et al, 2018;Zebari & Ibrahim, 2016). Additionally, some factors were merged into one item, and the greater group were kept.…”

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“…In Iraqi Kurdistan, despite the construction sector being essential to the growth of the region, construction faces many obstacles such as organizational issues, adversarial relationships and a clear lack of collaboration (Mustafa, 2017). Shawkat, Al-Din, and Kuzović (2018) agreed that several barriers are confronting construction industry in the Kurdistan region including deficiencies in the construction process, considerable shortage of skilled professionals, socio-cultural, technical and management factors. According to Zebari and Ibrahim (2016), the construction process in the Kurdistan is highly uncommunicative, and involved stakeholders are not collaborating, this lack of interaction between participants has resulted in underperformance of industry products.…”

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Improving Collaboration in Construction Projects in Developing Countries: The Case of Kurdistan Region of Iraq

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Hutchinson

Gaterell

2020

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

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The construction sector is criticised for being fragmented and for having a large number of problems between stakeholders such as adversarial relationships, lack of trust and ineffective communication. These issues emerge especially in developing countries. Collaboration has been introduced as a solution to such issues. However, delivering an effective process of collaboration is a challenge with a wide range of factors involved. This paper identifies and sorts the critical factors that affect collaboration in the construction sector and recommends ways to adapt such factors in the sector. Through a comprehensive review of the literature, two groups of critical success factors have been identified to improve such practices, hard factors and soft factors. This study contributes to the scarce literature about collaboration in the construction industry in the Kurdistan, and identifies factors of collaboration that construction projects need to adopt in order to improve their performance.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Improving Collaboration in Construction Projects in Developing Countries: The Case of Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Faris

Hutchinson

Gaterell

2020

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

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“…The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has witnessed a gigantic development in terms of building construction (Muhy Al-Din, et al, 2017;Shawkat, et al, 2018). Multi-story residential buildings have been remarkably observed in the city fabric and invaded the residential sector in the last decade.…”

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The Acoustic Performance Assessment in Residential High-Rises as a Salutogenic Approach in Design: Erbil – Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a Case Study

Ali

2022

JSA

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The acoustic level in the building is one of the critical design criteria for the privacy and comfort of occupants in the approach of salutogenic design. This attempt to study noise levels in Erbil residential high-rises is hardly described in the literature. This study focuses on the noise level in high-rise residential buildings in Erbil, Iraq. A comparison between two famous residential towers in Erbil has been achieved to evaluate the noise level and find the acoustical advantages and disadvantages in those buildings. Analysis of the plans, direct measurement of sound level, and questionnaire, have been applied as primary sources, for this purpose through five channels (outer and inner noise sources analysis, identifying direct sound transmission, indirect flanking sound transmission, perception of the occupants' noise level, and empirical noise level finding). Secondary sources such as books, magazines, and credible internet sources, have been used too. The results demonstrated that commonly, the occupants in both buildings are suffering from acoustical discomfort. However, the shape and form of the building, its location, and construction material can create advantages for one building on another in terms of acoustic results. the result of the current paper can help the designers to take a good design decisions in the future in the region of the study.

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“…Generally, green infrastructure indicates green buildings, which is a good initiative to make sustainable construction for smart cities (Shawkat et al, 2018). Green building is an ecological indicator against all kinds of toxic emissions (Liu & Lin, 2016).…”

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Mathematical Model Applied to Green Building Concept for Sustainable Cities Under Climate Change

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Dey

Islam

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JCUA

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Recently the effect of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is worldwide terrified anxiety to the public and scholars. Even this global problem is one of the great issues that continuously makes worrying the governments and environmentalists, but its solution findings are not out of the image at all. In this study, we have proposed and analysed a mathematical model for the solvable management of GHGs by sowing the seeds of green building dynamic systems. Moreover, in the model, the human community is used to enhance the production power of individuals of green buildings by absorbing the GHGs. The model is analysed by stability analysis at the equilibrium points: trivial and global equilibrium, and also by convincing the stability and instability of the system of equations. The behaviour of the propound model has been developed by numerical simulations which shows the rate of the fruitfulness of GHG components.

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Opportunities for Practicing Sustainable Building Construction in Kurdistan Region, Iraq

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Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Improving Collaboration in Construction Projects in Developing Countries: The Case of Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Improving Collaboration in Construction Projects in Developing Countries: The Case of Kurdistan Region of Iraq

The Acoustic Performance Assessment in Residential High-Rises as a Salutogenic Approach in Design: Erbil – Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a Case Study

Mathematical Model Applied to Green Building Concept for Sustainable Cities Under Climate Change

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