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Zheng, Lina (author), Duan, Huabo (author), Liu, Gang (author)Abstract only. Associated with the continuing increase of construction activities such as infrastructure projects, commercial buildings, and housing programs, China has been experiencing a rapid increase of construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Till now, the generation and flows of China’s C&D waste has not been well understood. This paper...conference paper 2017
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Minchin, E. (author), Pan, J. (author), Walters, R.C. (author), Fang, D. (author)Counterfeiting has been around since ancient times. Counterfeiting in modern times was once widespread and not confined to any geographic region. With the globalization efforts following World War II, counterfeiting became an international problem, much of it emanating from Japans developing manufacturing-based economy. As Japans economy...conference paper 2011
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Lu, W. (author), Liu, A. (author), Wang, H. (author), Wu, Z. (author)While heated discussions have been directed towards various innovative procurement systems such as PPP, PFI, and BOT that carry the great expectation to help materialise the projects and deliver value to the society, a procurement system named agent-construction system (ACS or in Chinese Dai Jian Zhi) is being prevailing in Chinas public...conference paper 2011
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Jiang, J. (author), Kandachar, P. (author), Freudenthal, A. (author)Design culture is usually considered as one of the important aspects that influence designers decisions and actions, especially in Design for Base of the Pyramid projects including ICT Healthcare Product Design in Rural China (IHDRC). There are two research questions in this issue: what are the cultural factors and how these factors influence...conference paper 2010
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Agster, R. (author), Liebl, J. (author), Schuhmann, J. (author), Zürker, M. (author)This case study investigates the efforts of Centric Austria International (CAI) to successfully set-up service units in China's less developed regions between 2008 and 2010 in order to promote implementation of Cleaner Production (CP) practices. Relying on the projects capacity development approach, the authors examine the critical success...conference paper 2010