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Overcoming KL traffic congestion

20 Pages 4931 Words July 2016

lity, rising of sea level, depletion of ozone layer, the greatly reduced amount of fossil fuels and so on had happen world-wide. Our planet is damage from the non-stop human activities without protection. There is prediction showing that the growing trend of the environmental impact will be continued. Energy consumption by nations with energy economic countries (such as Southeast Asia, Middle East, South America and Africa) will grow at annual rate of 3.2% and will exceed by 2020 that for the developed countries (such as North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) at a growing rate of 1.1%.
(Pérez-Lombard, Ortiz and Pout, 2008)
The construction sector plays a significant role in economic development in every country. It provides the direct means to the development and expansion of economic activities and is, at the same time, a major consumer of physical and natural resources and a polluter of the environment. The environmental impact of human settlements development, including construction activities, has grown dramatically due to the sheer increase of the world population and greater industrial and human activity.

Construction is one of the sector bring numerous environmental impacts to our planet. A statistic shown that building construction accounts 25% of the forest wood and 40% of the raw stone, gravel and sand used in the world each year. Buildings around the world consume 16% of the world’s fresh water and 40% of the energy used annually. The fossile fuel combustion produced approaching 70% of the sulphur dioxide through the generation of electricity used to supply electric power for building such as home, office, factories, school and so on.
The environmental problems of the construction sector in developing countries are at different levels. Material producers and builders often use traditional, less energy-efficient techniques or old-fashioned, highly polluting equipment. There is often a lack of know...

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