• DocumentCode
    3305008
  • Title

    An innovative concrete practice performance measurement towards environmental improvement in Malaysia

  • Author

    Salleh, Salehin ; Harun, Zakaria ; Mahmud, Hilmi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Civil Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    2-4 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    81
  • Lastpage
    85
  • Abstract
    The environmental impact from the concrete construction industry is quite alarming. The industry is embarking into improving the concrete performance and exploring into alternative materials to reduce such impact. An area which is lacking is improvement in the quality of concrete practice itself. By having good concrete practice, a good quality concrete can be achieved. This paper proposed a performance measurement of concrete practice and applies the measurement to assess the quality of concrete practice for a concrete structure project in Malaysia.
  • Keywords
    cement industry; concrete; construction industry; environmental factors; innovation management; quality control; Malaysia; concrete construction industry; concrete performance; environmental impact; environmental improvement; innovative practice; performance measurement; quality assessment; Concrete; Production; Time measurement; Weight measurement; concrete; concrete practice; environmental impact; performance measurement; quality;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering (ICBEE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cairo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8748-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8749-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICBEE.2010.5649800
  • Filename
    5649800