The "enabling" approach to housing markets promotes financing systems based on family savings, public subsidies and mortgage loans to unleash the potential of individuals and communities to produce and improve dwellings. ...

Describes the proposed development for Bon Accord, Tobago, which includes a residential area, tourist centres, farming village, expansion of educational and recreational facilities, highway extension - the impacts and ...

The construction market in Brazil is hot and new techniques are constantly being used to speed up and cheapen construction processes. It is observed that users do not take care of the appropriate use and with the preventive ...

This paper analyzes the representativeness of timber housing in Brazil, identifying the percentage of construction techniques offered by each evaluated company. Percentages that evidence the frequency of use of wooden ...

From the literature review and case studies, we developed a survey relating to university housing currently offered in the city of Curitiba. With a variety of programs that encourage students to move their cities to attend ...