Industrial Architecture; A Determinant Of Efficiency in the Palm Oil Mill
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2010-07-20
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Over the years, the Asian countries have proven that the production of palm oil generates enough income and revenue to aid the development of a nation. It is in view of this that the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Presidential Special Initiative, (PSI), has called for an improvement in the cultivation of oil palm in the country. An increase in the production of raw materials suggests an augmentation in processing facilities to prevent problems associated with inadequate storage practices. In order to achieve efficiency in the production of oil to meet international demands, a thorough knowledge and understanding of the raw material processing and the infrastructure for the processing must be soughted for. The site for the cultivation of cash crop must have certain requirements for a higher performance in yielding. Analysis on the raw material must be carried out since this determines the amount of finished goods to be obtained and the various services to be employed for efficiency in production. It is also necessary to have a precedent and/or case studies of existing palm oil processing industries for evaluation in order to develop a functional new industry for sustainability. This document is a research thesis that reconciles industrial architecture with efficiency in productivity of the production of palm oil in the oil mill. It discusses the factors of efficiency in production and how these factors are directly influenced by the various aspects of industrial architecture.
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A Thesis presented to the Department of Architecture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE, Faculty of Architecture and Building Technology.