Challenges faced by construction industry in accomplishing sustainablity goals

ISBEIA 2012 - IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 630-634

  Azis, Ade Asmi Abdul ^a   Memon, Aftab Hameed ^b   Rahman, Ismail Abdul ^b   Nagapan, Sasitharan ^b   Latif, Qadir Bux Alias Imran ^b  

^a BAKRIE UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Construction waste; Principles of sustainable construction; Scheule and budget overrun; Sustuiable development

Indexed keywords

BUDGET OVERRUNS; BUILDING PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION WASTES; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE; RAPID GROWTH; SCHEDULE DELAY; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION; SUSTUIABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BUDGET CONTROL; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84874350318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBEIA.2012.6422966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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