Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine a series of environmental factors and industrial conditions governing the construction industry in China. The outcome of this part of the analysis sheds light on the development of appropriate competitive strategies and important resources and...

The many transitory changes in China have raised the intensity level of competition among construction firms. Despite having a high growth economy, some construction firms continue to suffer from low profitability. Meanwhile, practical cases and empirical findings related to Chinese construction...

Sound environment is an important part of the overall environmental sustainability. For example, the windows of buildings in noisy environments often need to be sealed, which would discourage low energy strategies based on natural ventilation. The aim of this study is to investigate the...

There is great potential for the expansion of the small or micro scale hydropower network. Of the 43 thousand weirs in the UK there are only 500 consented hydro schemes. Planning applications for such schemes require a noise assessment. Noise evaluation of a proposed renewable scheme is often...

Regression models are proposed for joint analysis of Poisson and continuous longitudinal data with nonignorable missing values under fully parametric framework. Our primary interest is to evaluate the influence of the covariates on both Poisson and continuous responses. First, we form the full...