Green Apartments in Nanjing China: Do Developers and Planners Understand the Valuation by Residents?

Dear All,

The Chinese government promotes green construction as part of the strategy to reduce energy consumption. In practice, green construction can be impeded because various stakeholders valuate green attributes in different ways. This paper uses the analytic hierarchy process to analyse the extent to which developers and planners understand the valuation of green apartment attributes by residents in Nanjing. Results show that buyers of green apartments rank green attributes lower than safety and accessibility, and rank healthy construction materials and comfort much higher than thermal isolation or reduced energy costs. Green developers tend to focus on aspects that define their margin, such as green attributes and locational benefits and overlook the social needs, which are not addressed in building codes and not under their control. They have better understanding of green residents' priorities with health issues; planners are more familiar with the social needs of residents and lack green marketing knowledge.

Source: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/chos20/current

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Turnitin Activation

Dear All, 

Central Library of SPA Vijayawada has subscribed a ‘Turnitin’ (Anti-plagiarism software) for the period of one year (for 10 instructors and 100 student accounts).  

The following instructor accounts (10) are activated and invitation has been communicated to respective accounts for setting up your own user id/password for login.

1.      Dr. Minakshi Jain - director@spav.ac.in  

2.      Dr. Ramesh Srikonda - ramesh.srikonda@spav.ac.in

3.      Dr. Abdul Razak - razak@spav.ac.in

4.      Dr. Ayon Kumar Tarafdar - ayon.tarafdar@spav.ac.in,

5.      Mr. Venkata Krishna Kumar Sadhu - krishnakumar.sv@spav.ac.in

6.      Dr. Natraj Kranthi - natraj@spav.ac.in

7.      Mr. Karteek Guturu - karteek.g@spav.ac.in,

8.      Mr. M. Kranti - kranti.myneni@spav.ac.in,

9.      Mr. A.L. Valliappan -  valliappan.al@spav.ac.in,

10.  Mr. Prasanth Vardhan - prasanth@spav.ac.in,

Kindly login and explore it.  Each instructor has allowed to create 10 (faculty/students) accounts.  

If any doubts please contact me. Service available at your desk. 

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Dr. YS RAO

Regional (South - IV) Workshop on “Institutional Digital Repository (IDR-2017)” on April 21 – 22, 2017

The Central Library of School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada is organizing a two-day Regional (South - IV) Workshop on “Institutional Digital Repository (IDR-2017)” in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur under the program of National Digital Library of India, MHRD at SPA Vijayawada on April 21-22, 2017.

ABOUT THE NDL PROJECT

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library (NDL) of India pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners.It is being developed at IIT Kharagpur.

The NDL will harvest metadata and contents from all the Institutional Digital Repositories (IDR) of Universities and Institutions, all other digital library initiatives, and NMEICT projects and index in the National Digital Library Server so that all the e-contents can be searched and accessed in the full-text by the users through a single window. Please visit https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in for further information.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The main purpose of this Regional (South - IV) Workshop on “Institutional Digital Repository (IDR-2017)” is to create awareness about an IDR and provide hands-on training in the creation, implementation and promotion of IDR across the educational institutions across the country especially in the Andhra Pradesh region and provide a single-window access with e-learning facility.

OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP

·  To create an awareness about NDL (NMEICT Project);

·  To contextualize the role of contributing institutions in the creation and execution of IDR;

·  To provide hands-on training for the development of IDR with its technological applications and technical possibilities;

·  To provide appropriate skills for the creation and mobilization of e-content of individual institutions that can be harvested and indexed by the NDL server; and

·  Provide education on disaster recovery, restore and back up of IDR.

WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY

The two-day workshop will have two sessions (pre and post lunch) each day and mainly focus on the following:

NDL Project

- National Digital Library – A Vision,  Overview and Design - Metadata Envelop for NDL - Role of Contributing Institutions

IDR Hands-on

- Installation of DSpace Version 5.x - Configuration of DSpace (UI, OAI, ORE, Work flow model) - Registry process of NDL metadata Schema into installed Dspace - Uploading steps of e-content’s metadata as per NDL metadata schema

TARGET AUDIENCE

Academicians, Library and Information Science (LISc) Professionals, IT Professionals etc. from respective educational institutions across the country especially in the Andhra Pradesh region.

LIMITATIONS

·         No. of Institutions: 30-35 (Per institute 2 persons only (one is Librarian another one is IT Professional)

·         Category of Institutions – Central/State/Autonomous Government, Universities and Higher Education Institutions.  Private institutions are not in priority but may be taken up there is vacancy.

REGISTRATION

·         Registration Fee                                  : None

·         Last Date of Registration                   : 10/04/2017

·         Last Date of Confirmation                  : 15/04/2017

TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION

All Participants are required to meet travel expenses through their respective institutions or from their own funding. Local (hotel) accommodation will be provided by the SPA Vijayawada on twin shared basis subject to prior information/intimation.

VENUE

School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada
Sy. No. 71/1, NH-5, Nidamanuru, Vijayawada,

Pin code: 521104, Dist. Krishna, Andhra Pradesh

CORRESPONDENCE/COMMUNICATION ADDRESS

Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao,

Convener, IDR-2017and Dy. Librarian,

Phone: 0866 2469466 (O); 09502593300 (Mob)

E-mail:  ysrao@spav.ac.in; ysraoo@gmail.com