Environmental impacts assessment on construction sites

Construction Research Congress 2012: Construction Challenges in a Flat World, Proceedings of the 2012 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1750-1759

  Zolfagharian, Samaneh ^a   Nourbakhsh, Mehdi ^b   Irizarry, Javier ^b   Ressang, Aziruddin ^a   Gheisari, Masoud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction activities; Environmental impacts assessments; Environmental pollution

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY; CONSTRUCTION MANAGER; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; DUST GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; EXPERT PANELS; MALAYSIA; PROJECT MANAGERS; PROJECT PARTICIPANTS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; TRANSPORTATION RESOURCES;

CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MANAGERS; NOISE POLLUTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84866245671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412329.176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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