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Environmental sustainability in the construction Industry in developing countries: a study of embodied energy of low-cost housing. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Mpakati Gama, E., Wamuziri, S., & Sloan, B. (2010). Environmental sustainability in the construction Industry in developing countries: a study of embodied energy of low-cost housing.

The embodied energy (EE) of a residential building is estimated at 20-40% of operation energy over its total usable life. However, this varies from one context to the other due to the primary energy used, technological advancement of a particular... Read More about Environmental sustainability in the construction Industry in developing countries: a study of embodied energy of low-cost housing..

A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B., & Brown, A. (2010). A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography.

The existence of cycles in the general business sector, as well as in building and property has grown to have significant importance in the UK, whereas the UK property market has been characterised by boom and bust cycles with a negative impact on th... Read More about A century of research on property cycles – a literature review and annotated bibliography..

A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Jadevicius, A., Sloan, B., & Brown, A. (2010, September). A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles. Paper presented at XI BSV International Conference on Valuation and Investment,

The existence of cycles within economy and its sub-sectors has been studied for a number of years. The importance of cycles has grown to have significant importance in the major capitalistic countries, seeing cycles as having a negative impact on the... Read More about A century of research on property cycles – a review of research on major and auxiliary business cycles..