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The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) is a tool for preventing environmental pollution from a proposed construction project. EMP development requires specialized construction site data and information from multiple sources. Recently, knowledge-based system (KBS) has been used extensively in the environmental field, especially in cases where human expertise and data are limited. In this study, a KBS computer application was developed to guide the application of EMP for housing and new township development projects in Malaysia. This system, called River Pollution Prevention Plan during Construction Activity- Environmental Management Plan, or “RP3CA-EMP” was developed in the Microsoft Visual Basic environment. RP3CA-EMP predicts the impacts of housing and new township development projects on surface water and details necessary mitigation measures. Additionally, RP3CA-EMP is an educational tool for individual developing EMP for housing and new township development projects.
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Ooshaksaraie, L., Ahmad Basri, N.E., Abu Bakar, A., Abdul Maulud, K.N. (2010). Development of RP3CA-EMP, a Knowledge-Based System for Applying Environmental Management Plan (EMP) in the Malaysian Construction Industry. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15384-6_3
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