• The Safety technology
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• no.202
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• pp.18-20
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• 2014

전남 여수에 위치한 한국남동발전 여수화력발전처는 여수 국가산업단지에 전력을 공급하는 핵심적인 역할을 하는 곳이다. 1975년부터 중유발전을 해오다 오일쇼크 등을 겪으면서 가동을 중단하는 등 크고 작은 부침을 겪었던 역사를 뒤로 하고 석탄발전으로 제2의 도약을 꿈꾸고 있다. 현재 여수화력 2호기의 보일러 설비는 운용중이고, 1호기 설비의 교체작업은 진행 중에 있다. 이 때문에 2호기 상업운전에 따른 운영부서의 안전조직과 1호기 건설에 필요한 안전조직도 별도로 운영되고 있다. 여기에 1호기의 안전은 여수화력발전처 건설관리팀의 안전관리자와 협력업체의 안전관리자가 협의 하에 공동으로 운영되는 등 조직별 전문인력이 유기적으로 협업하고 있다. 40여 년 역사를 바탕으로 새 역사를 쓰고 있는 여수화력발전처의 안전관리 노하우는 무엇일지 직접 찾아가 봤다.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.3-15
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• 2014

Ever expanding overseas construction is one of the most important issues for Korean construction companies. Among these issues, strategies for overseas plant construction have widely been discussed, because the plant construction has features of low competitiveness and high ripple effects when compared with other construction sectors. In this sense, the purpose of this research is to evaluate the CM capability of Korean construction industry for overseas plant construction. Fourteen construction business functions and four techniques were defined first. Based on these functions and techniques, CM capability was quantified for As-Is (2013), To-Be (2018) and Gap analyses. Findings of this research reveal that 1) capability for construction is quite competent, 2) capabilities for planning, design management, contracting, and risk management are found to be relatively low, where higher value can be added. In addition, it is found that R&D needs to be extended to develop systemized management techniques. It is also required to secure specialists and original technologies at national industrial level.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.179-186
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• 2019

Identifying potential accidents at construction sites is a major concern for the construction industry, and, according to the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, the death rate of safety accidents caused by construction equipment is particularly high at 19.8% as of 2016. Although Internet of Things (IoT) has not been applied widely in construction sites, it can build an operating system that feeds accurate and useful information to construction accident management for identifying potential accidents. In this context, this study proposes an IoT- and RTLS-based construction equipment safety accident prevention system, which can be useful for preventing and managing safety accidents caused by construction equipment. Future deployment of such system would contribute not only to the safety of workers but also to efficient equipment and manpower operation.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.46-54
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• 2011

There have been research and developments for effective and efficient logistics and progress management in a construction project. Among them, RFID+4D has been developed for the supply chain management of long-lead item materials such as steel component, precast concrete component and curtain wall by integrating RFID with 4D CAD. And the feasibility of RFID+4D has been verified and validated and the benefits in terms of time and cost were shown in several case studies. However, the previous development of RFID+4D has not been adapted widely because of additional modeling cost, non-real time data update, additional labor for data update, and so forth. Therefore, this research has proposed a framework and process for solving these problems. And the web based simulation system has been developed and verified based on the proposed framework. The proposed framework and process can improve the existing RFID+4D system in a construction project by saving its operation cost and utilizing project information more efficiently and effectively. Also it is expected that the proposed framework could be applied to a method transferring design RIM data to construction BIM data.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.161-184
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• 2011

It has been widely spread that the acquisition and retention of the core personnel is very important for improving firms' competitiveness. Many companies have made a lot of efforts to keep these core personnel, job embeddedness and work satisfaction are important factors which make effects on workers turnover. Prior research applying for many different industries do not show the consistent research results. There is no empirical research applying for construction IT industry which information technology has been playing more important role because of u-city etc. Therefore, in this research job embeddedness and work satisfaction are to be measured and the relationship with turnover intentions are to be investigated focusing on small and medium construction IT workers. The sub-constructs of job embeddedness are fit, links and sacrifice, and the sub-constructs of work satisfaction are career satisfaction and job satisfaction. It is empirically tested how these factors can have effects on the turnover intentions. Field surveys targeted to construction IT workers were done and finally 177 survey questionnaires were used to analyze. Research results show that if the sacrifice, career satisfaction and job satisfaction of small and medium construction IT workers are higher, turnover intentions will be lower. On the other hand, 2 hypotheses are rejected that if the fit and links of these workers are higher, turnover intentions will be lower. These research results clarified the factors affecting the turnover intentions of small and medium construction IT workers and can be utilized how turnover intentions can be decreased practically.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.7-19
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• 2006

최근 들어 지구촌은 기상이변 등으로 인해 많은 인적, 물적 피해를 겪고 있습니다. 우리가 살고 있는 이 땅을 가꾸고 조각하는 건설인으로서 이러한 피해를 반복적으로 경험하고 있다는 것은 매우 부끄러운 일이기도 하지만, 한편으로는 우리가 나아가야 하는 기술개발의 방향을 암시하는 것이라고 할 수 있습니다. 우리나라도 이러한 피해에 자주 노출되다 보니 방재분야에 대한 관심이 점차 깊어지고 있습니다. 방재를 담당하는 전담기구도 조직되고 관련 제도 및 법령을 정비하기 위한 노력도 많아졌으며, 대학에서는 방재전문인력을 양성하려는 움직임도 있습니다. 물론 우리학회에서도 '재해대책기술위원회'가 새로이 조직되어 좀더 전문적으로 기술발전을 이끌어가고 있습니다. 그래서 올해에는 이러한 방재분야의 정보를 공유하고 발전시키기 위해 방재와 관련된 지반공학분야의 전문가들을 모시고 [지반공학 분야의 재해와 예방]이라는 주제로 특집내용을 기획하였습니다. 지반공학에서 다루고 있는 구조물들 중 방재대상으로 관리할 필요가 있는 터널분야, 사면분야, 댐분야 등 각 분야에서 발생하는 재해와 이를 해결해 나가려는 최신의 기술동향을 다루고자 합니다. 앞으로 다뤄지는 [지반공학 분야의 재해와 예방] 특집기사에 많은 회원 여러분의 관심을 부탁드립니다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.20-22
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• 1984

공작기계는 "기계를 만드는 기계 (Mother Machine)" 로서 기계공업 발전을 주도할 뿐만 아니라그발전수준을 가늠하는 척도로 인식되고 있다. 우리나라 공작기계공업은 70 년대 이후 정부의 강력한 중화학공업육성정책과 함께, 특히 방위산업과 관련된 전략산업으로 그 육 성이 본격화되기 시작하였고, 뒤이어 창원기계공업기지 건설과 같은 기계공업부문의 시설투자가 활발해 짐으로써 발전이 가속화되었다. 그간 업계에서는 선진국과의 기술협력을 확대하고 고급 기술인력을 육성하는 등 다각적인 노력을 기울여 70 년대 후반에는 NC화 할 수 있게 되어 부분적 으로는 선진국 수준에 도달 할 수 있게 되었다. 이렇듯 우리의 공작기계공업은 일천한 역사에 비해 비약적인 발전을 이룩하였으나 국내시장이 협소하고 주변 요소기술이 미약하여 아직 많은 제약을 받고 있다. 이를 타개하기 위해 우리는 우선 기존제품의 생산성향상, 원가절감, 품질 고급화를 기하여 국내외 시장에서의 경쟁력을 강화하고 나아가서는 새로운 기술개발에 더 많은 노력을 기울여 치열 해져가는 국제경쟁에 대처해야 할 시점에 있다. 할 시점에 있다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.2541-2549
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• 2013

The Construction industry has been dealing with much trouble due to global economic recession and domestic political trends emphasizing on welfare than development. Consequently, domestic construction market has been dramatically shrunk during the last a few years, and international market has become the only potential solution for the industry. However, there has been lack of efforts in developing a quantified measure of global competencies for Korean engineering and construction organizations. This study attempted to develop quantified indices for Korean engineering and construction contractors with which the level of global construction competencies can be objectively monitored. In doing so, a survey questionnaire was developed to identify relative importances of core competency elements which were derived from extensive literature reviews and experts interviews. AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) was employed as a main analysis method in developing quantification measures. The analysis results reveal little differences in competency requirements between engineering and construction firms and it implies that the global market becomes more integrated and requires a total solution for a construction project. The developed core competency measures can be used to quantify the level of preparedness of Korean engineering and construction firms at the time of evaluation and also be used as a basis for performance benchmarking indicators if they are compared with business showings.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.85-94
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• 2022

Construction industry is facing difficult challenges in terms of productivity, manpower, and industrial accidents. Currently, along with the 4th Industrial Revolution, various high-tech technologies are emerging, and efforts are being made to solve the problem by applying the technologies related to the 4th Industrial Revolution to the construction industry. As part of these efforts, research is being conducted to develop a construction equipment control system to increase productivity and safety at earthworks sites where many and various types of construction equipment are involved, and the system needs a function to increase productivity by optimizing the moving path of construction equipment. In the case of trucks, the location of the temporary road must be optimized in order to optimize the path of movement in the construction site. However, only matters related to the quality standard of temporary roads have been suggested so far, and there is no standardized process for efficiently determining the location of temporary roads. In this paper, the factors and its importance related to the location of the temporary road were identified through field surveys and interviews with experts, and a method for determining the location of the temporary road was presented. It was confirmed that the suggested method through a case study could improve the productivity of earthwork.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.1181-1189
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• 2013

This study illustrates the results of a background policy research conducted to provide supports for the 'Korean Engineering Industry Enhancement Law' promulgated by the Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy. The main issue covered in this study is an effective way of managing standardized career development program for construction engineers. This study attempted to provide detailed criteria and guidelines for the public career development program for construction engineers by effectively collecting and analyzing relative. In doing so, various opinions from a wide range of stakeholders and related parties were gathered. In addition, an in-depth benchmarking investigation was performed with four main associations who have been operating their own career development management program for construction engineers. Some of the findings from this study have played a positive role specifying the details of the recently promulgated law such as 'Notice by Ministry of Knowledge Economy 2011-76: guidelines for managing construction engineer career'. This study was an empirical and practical research effort helping the government to set up an effective construction law system.