Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current market development of Energy Performance Contracting (EnPC) in Hong Kong and Taiwan, focussing on four key aspects: first, the potential building energy retrofits as an investment for future savings; second, the motivations for...

Scheduling of a design project is complex because design activities often have information dependencies between each other. This study proposes a network-based model to schedule design projects and generate probabilistic project durations. The proposed model applies a modified cluster...

A campus may impact the surrounding area in various ways, such as by the noise emissions. We analysed the campus noise emissions from the viewpoint of total activity volume and measured the noise levels within a new university campus, and at selected points in a neighbouring village, over a...

Development of the infrastructure is one of the key factors in determining the competitiveness of a nation. Most world competitiveness reports include infrastructure development as a primary set of indicators in assessing the competitiveness of nations. We ranked the indicators based on their...

The exposition industry has developed rapidly in recent years. For exposition centers, exposition timetabling is a complicated problem. The timetables arranged by the administrators usually result in an imbalanced usage percentage between showgrounds and a low total usage percentage for all...