INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY ON "KOUJI-KANRI (CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION)" AS CONSTRUCTION CONFORMATION

  • Takashi Saito (Facilities Department, Japan Post) ;
  • Shuzo Furusaka (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University) ;
  • Takashi Kaneta (Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University)
  • Published : 2005.10.16

Abstract

The Japanese construction industry has faced on lack of quality that is one of the strong confidence fields. It is said that the main reason of this trend is in the case of construction supervisor's defects. But real problems are both the degree of drawing's completion and design activities in construction phase by architect. The purpose of this paper examines that the role of construction supervisor in Japan is changing to the management field and construction conformation, based on the analysis of the WBS based on international comparison among Korea, China, the UK, the US, and Japan.

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