• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.183-190
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• 2020

Currently, the multi-unit houses are the largest in the ratio of housing types, and the number of households in multi-unit houses is steadily increasing. As the multi-family housing project continues, the accuracy of estimates for decision-making and feasibility assessment are required in the early stages of the project. Therefore, this study selected the influential factors affecting the estimated estimate and showed the relative importance of each factor through weight analysis and suggested the method of calculating the estimated estimate to improve the accuracy. The calculation plan presented through this study will be used as a useful data for project feasibility review and is expected to make a great contribution in preventing the economic loss of the client.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.6 no.1 s.23
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• pp.186-194
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to examine the problems of the regulations regarding the modification of subcontact price. It also suggests several measures to improve the regulations related to the subcontact price adjustment which help to reduce unnecessary claims and commercial disputes. The literature research, structure and context analysis on the subcontract regulation and survey are adopted as basic research methods. The primary findings of this study are summarized as the following: (1) A provision outlining necessary procedures that an owner and a contractor should notify a subcontract or the adjustment of contact price needs to be made. (2) A provision allowing procedures that subcontactor could make the alteration of subcontract agreement and adjustment of subcontact price needs to be made. (3) The terminology like a unit cost and the rate of contact price needs to be clearly defined in order to improve the criterions of the subcontact price adjustment. (4) The criterions and additional expenses that the contractors ate responsible far need to be defined.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.3-11
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• 2016

CM at Risk has been introduced in Korea to keep up with the global standards of construction management and provide a higher quality of cm service in line with a rapid change of the construction industry recently. However, it is widely considered that more time would required to settle down the system due to a lack of understanding towards CM at Risk, shortage of reliability and low capability to manage and undertake CM at Risk. Therefore, this research is analyzed problems of contract types, open book policies, and contract conditions of 33 numbers of projects undertaken by a bespoke domestic construction management firm in this research. Moreover, this research is suggested a method to establish an open book policy of CM at Risk aiming a better customers satisfaction through staff training, simplifying and improving a payment system, and a way to settle down an open book policy by improving a performance management system on site. It's expected that this research will contribute to a more competitive system with more dominating the market and a differentiation of the service so as clients to rely more on the CM at Risk.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.33-41
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• 2010

It is stated in the highway geometric design guide that expressway interchange types should be selected considering a set of input variables including travel demand, topography, construction cost and interchange spacing. However, this selection method has a problem of providing different interchange types even for the same input variables depending upon different applications of engineers discretion. A procedure that produces consistent results is necessary and this paper presents the development of an efficient and reliable procedure based on the quantification of road user costs and construction costs on interchanges. To develop this procedure, a survey of existing expressway interchange types in South Korea was made and 10 basic interchange types and 52 supplementary interchange types were identified. To relate road user costs and construction costs to these interchange types, this research uses two method. First, interchange types were expressed by a set of ramp configurations. Second, road user benefits and construction costs associated with these different interchange types were formulated based on the current national guide of the expressway economical analysis. As a result, it was proved that an interchange type to provide minimum costs could be selected consistently and this research result should be useful for future expressway geometric designs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.300-305
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• 2002

The construction project is a complex undertaking involving multiple participants. Conflicts are inherently natural in the construction projects and subsequently, a success of projects mainly depends on how well to cope with the conflicts. In the past, courts usually took the position that the professional's exposure in damages for negligent performance of any of his/her duties would not extend to strangers to the contractual arrangement. However, courts today generally reject that rationale which was earlier in vogue and protect architects, engineers, and contractors from being liable to third parties. It means that the lack of privity of contract could rarely protect a profession in a suit alleging the negligence or professional malpractice in preparing plans or specifications. The main goal of this paper is to enhance the understanding of the legal aspect of privity and to provide the trend of no-privity disputes through the analysis of lawsuit cases during the last 40 years. On the base of the analysis, importance of the third relationship and the liability in construction disputes is presented.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.112-123
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• 2015

Many disputes are happened with various causes in overseas construction projects. One of major disputes is closely related with nominated subcontractors (NSC). This paper investigates 30 judical precedents for Singapore, Malaysia and Hongkong to analyze the detailed disputes related with the NSC, and then the judical precedents are classified into 6 categories: Delay and Defect Trouble (T1), Contract Relation (T2), Payment Trouble (T3), Set-off (T4), Liquidation (T5) and so forth (T6). According to the analytical results, the frequency of occurrence of disputes is considerably related with social and economical changes, and the dispute between NSC and employer for residential and commercial building projects is the most frequently happened case. As the results of analysis, therefore, it is concluded that the employer needs to response aggressively to the problems related with NSC, and it is also important to make the council for communication among related bodies. Furthermore, the institutional reform that make the role and the responsibility of employer consistent under considering contract terms and conditions is considered as the most important and fundamental issue.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.39-49
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• 2021

According to the recent "Status of Industrial Accidents at the End of December 2020" released by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, each industry is subject to industrial accidents. The number of accident deaths by construction industry, accident deaths by accident type fell, and accident deaths by workplace size were 5 to 49, indicating that most accident deaths occurred due to falling accidents at small construction sites. Therefore, urban living houses are small construction sites, and the probability of falling accidents is very high. Fall simulation training for disaster occurrence is conducted mainly by large construction ordering organizations in the public sector, and it is the first case in Korea that a housing construction company has conducted at a small construction site. This study analyzed and presented the definition, construction characteristics, and safety management status of urban living houses, and developed and spread an emergency relief procedure manual in the event of a fall accident to minimize deaths.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.6D
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• pp.975-983
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• 2006

This study analyzed bidding data for construction projects ordered by the Public Procurement Service under the lowest bidding system since 2001 by using statistical technique in terms of construction types, company sizes, bidding prices. This study brings out construction company's bidding practices and problems caused by the current lowest bidding system and suggests the way to mitigate the problems and to improve the lowest bidding system. The analysis shows the problem of winning a bid in abnormally low price under the lowest bidding system, feared at the start, was realized. As bidding practice has polarized with low and high price, the analysis shows that the lowest bid system's market has a high possibility to be distorted by construction companies' bid strategies. To complement the lowest bidding system's problem, the analysis shows that introduction of the bidding system using particulars where bidders estimate construction quantities and unit prices by themselves is needed.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.141-152
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• 2011

The market volume of urban regeneration projects has steadily increased, thereby mixed-use development also shows significant market growth. However, previous researches on urban regeneration mainly deduced suggestions and plans for institution improvement based on comparison between projects implemented the inside and outside of the country. Whereas, researches on project management closely related to project success were limited, particularly in performance management. Accordingly, this research aims at developing a program performance management framework for public clients so as to succeed mixed-use development projects. Through extensive literature review and expert interview, this research developed performance indices for diverse facilities, risk management framework and integrating method of program performance score. The proposed framework is able to consider total life cycle from basic planning to maintenance phase and to check real-time performance level. Moreover, risk management framework can periodically assess and control the level of inherent risks within performance indices. The results can contribute to improve existing performance management practices and be basis for a web-based system developed in future.