Strategic planning for the sustainable development of the construction industry in Hong Kong

Wong, Johnny; Ng, S. Thomas; Chan, Albert P.C.

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.10.002

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“…In many countries, promoting growth in the construction sector is considered to be an appropriate policy option to stimulate macroeconomic development (Dang & Low, 2011;Su et al, 2003;Wong et al, 2010). Governments tend to use construction investments as an instrument to stabilize economy, and hence they give the sector a key role in developmental strategies (Dang & Low, 2011).…”

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“…The recent literature (see Aveline & Li, 2004;Dang & Low, 2011;Wong, Thomas Ng, & Chan, 2010;Zainul Abidin, 2010) emphasizes the role of public sector, especially national governments in minimizing the negative impacts of construction activity through relevant policies. It is predominantly postulated that public sector is well aware of environmental challenges caused by construction activity and devoted to the understanding of how to improve sustainability performance of private developers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The negative effects of construction boom on urban planning and environment in Turkey: Unraveling the role of the public sector

Balaban

2012

Habitat International

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The negative effects of construction boom on urban planning and environment in Turkey: Unraveling the role of the public sector

Balaban

2012

Habitat International

128

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“…However, this perspective has been changing, not only because the relocation becomes financially enforceable but also because these settlements had begun to be recognized the social and economic hubs at its own way, by having social and economic capital that should be encouraged to grow (Durovic & Nikolic, 2016;Anguita, 2006). However, it is well known that informal settlements without any ownerships and land management promotes large problems in terms of public spaces and utilities, transportations, hygiene, environment, organization and legal land solutions (UN, 2015;Holland, 2015;UN, 2018;Imbroscio, 2013;Wong, Thomas & Chan, 2010). In this way, it is essential to introduce or improve the land administration systems that allows achieving the sustainable development of those settlements.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transformation of Informal Settlements: Case of Cape Vert

Amado¹,

Poggi²,

Martins³

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The non-existence of a land ownership database in most of the developing countries moves the inhabitants to the occupation of public lands. Some of this situation are the origin to areas of informal housing, commerce and agriculture and in the end into new informal settlements. Informal settlements become a serious problem in developing countries. The most common typology of informal settlements is that they are the population settled in public lands without any infrastructures and against the administrator's will. Thought this action the result in an uncontrolled land occupation process that promotes new informal areas without any proper built-up utilities, located in risk areas on the territory, barely ensuring the minimum requirements for a heaty living of the population and in various cases incentives to an informal economy. The process of build a cadastral map in informal settlement areas is a fundamental base to support the future transformation of illegal areas and to regulate the occupation of new subdivision planning and into the creation of new expansion areas. In this paper, it is presented a methodology developed to be applied to support a new register of land and to management. The transformation of informal settlement areas. The model to register the land tenure has been associated with allows the process application to multiple typology of informal settlements. The model to register land tenure has developed on a series of qualitative and quantitative data that determine the identification and classification of the buildings and its physical and functional description. The model was developed using Geographic Information

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“…Promoting a sustainable building industry has become an important issue for both developing and developed countries currently due to the industry's large energy consumption and long period of operation (Wong et al, 2010). Different countries have designed certification systems for "Green Building" or "Sustainable Building", terms widely used to describe resource-efficient, environmentally friendly buildings (Kibert, 2008).…”

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Contribution Index Based on Green Building Certification Systems

Sun

Goh

2015

CEB

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Green Building Certification Systems (GBCS) are carried out in many countries due to the rising awareness of the importance of sustainability in the building industry. The intention should have motivated participants to construct and operate buildings sustainably, however, there is not yet a method developed to investigate the motivation of the participants. Based on the GBCS, this paper proposes the contribution index as a standard global method to analyze the performance of participants in the green building industry. Three contribution indices, namely Frequency Contribution Index (FCI), Intensity Contribution Index (ICI) and Comprehensive Contribution Index (CCI) that concern each different category of participant, have been formulated. Three further analyses based on the index were undertaken to investigate some features of the industry. A case study of Singapore was conducted to show how the contribution index could be used to extract industry patterns and trends and assess the participants’ performance in the green building industry. Interviews with experts provide some suggested applications and support for the findings.

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Strategic planning for the sustainable development of the construction industry in Hong Kong

Cited by 54 publications

References 21 publications

The negative effects of construction boom on urban planning and environment in Turkey: Unraveling the role of the public sector

The negative effects of construction boom on urban planning and environment in Turkey: Unraveling the role of the public sector

Transformation of Informal Settlements: Case of Cape Vert

Contribution Index Based on Green Building Certification Systems

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