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Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway

Sustainable development principles have been implemented in various sectors including construction. Proper development and operation of infrastructure projects such highways can contribute significantly to the mission of sustainable development. Previous studies shown that most of conventional highw...

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Main Authors: Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah, Abd. Majid, Muhd. Zaimi, Sahamir, Shaza Rina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2015
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56201/1/RajaRafidahRajaMuhdRooshdi2015_Sustainable%20design%20and%20construction%20elements%20in%20green%20highway.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56201/
http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6407
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spelling my.utm.562012017-11-01T04:17:05Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56201/ Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah Abd. Majid, Muhd. Zaimi Sahamir, Shaza Rina TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Sustainable development principles have been implemented in various sectors including construction. Proper development and operation of infrastructure projects such highways can contribute significantly to the mission of sustainable development. Previous studies shown that most of conventional highways are unsustainable in many ways. Highways are facing severe challenge such as deteriorating condition, congestion, energy supply, and shortfall of funding for maintenance and capacity expansion to meet increasing demand. However at the same time, they consume huge amount of natural minerals and energy and generate waste and emission which contributing to climate changes and global warming. Therefore, sustainable design, construction, operation and maintenance have become priority these day. The aim of this paper is to determine critical elements for sustainable design and construction based on ranking of the priority level of the weighted value of each criteria. The questionnaires survey were developed and distributed to related respondents in order to obtain the agreement level for the element. The data was analysed using SPSS with factor analysis method. Result from the analysis shown the criteria, weightage and score for main criteria for sustainable design and construction activities for green highway. Penerbit UTM Press 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56201/1/RajaRafidahRajaMuhdRooshdi2015_Sustainable%20design%20and%20construction%20elements%20in%20green%20highway.pdf Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah and Abd. Majid, Muhd. Zaimi and Sahamir, Shaza Rina (2015) Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway. Jurnal Teknologi, 77 (16). pp. 113-118. ISSN 0127-9696 http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6407 DOI:10.11113/jt.v77.6407
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah
Abd. Majid, Muhd. Zaimi
Sahamir, Shaza Rina
Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
description Sustainable development principles have been implemented in various sectors including construction. Proper development and operation of infrastructure projects such highways can contribute significantly to the mission of sustainable development. Previous studies shown that most of conventional highways are unsustainable in many ways. Highways are facing severe challenge such as deteriorating condition, congestion, energy supply, and shortfall of funding for maintenance and capacity expansion to meet increasing demand. However at the same time, they consume huge amount of natural minerals and energy and generate waste and emission which contributing to climate changes and global warming. Therefore, sustainable design, construction, operation and maintenance have become priority these day. The aim of this paper is to determine critical elements for sustainable design and construction based on ranking of the priority level of the weighted value of each criteria. The questionnaires survey were developed and distributed to related respondents in order to obtain the agreement level for the element. The data was analysed using SPSS with factor analysis method. Result from the analysis shown the criteria, weightage and score for main criteria for sustainable design and construction activities for green highway.
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author Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah
Abd. Majid, Muhd. Zaimi
Sahamir, Shaza Rina
author_facet Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah
Abd. Majid, Muhd. Zaimi
Sahamir, Shaza Rina
author_sort Raja Muhd. Rooshdi, Raja Rafidah
title Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
title_short Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
title_full Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
title_fullStr Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
title_sort sustainable design and construction elements in green highway
publisher Penerbit UTM Press
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56201/1/RajaRafidahRajaMuhdRooshdi2015_Sustainable%20design%20and%20construction%20elements%20in%20green%20highway.pdf
http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/56201/
http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v77.6407
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