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Construction Projects Productivity in West African country of Benin: Case of Ground Earthworks

  • Akogbe, Romuald Kokou;Feng, Xin;Zhou, Jing
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a survey related to excavation construction activities among national and international construction companies was conducted to evaluate site productivity in construction industry. To analyze the respective productivity levels of each construction company, a benchmarking measures analysis that featured calculations of the performance ratio (PR) and performance management index (PMI) was performed. As a result of these analyses, it has been found that the work performed by local companies was marked by lower productivity and that of international companies was characterized by good productivity. Further analysis of construction workforce resources P% revealed that a construction company's productivity is largely dependent on production capacity and consumption resources, which means that the retention of skilled workers and utilization of high-quality resources yields the highest level of productivity. These results suggest that for a local construction company to be competitive in the construction work market, it must retrain skilled craftspeople, foremen, engineers, and project managers, and strengthen its building capability by leveraging new equipment and technologies.

Planning the Information Technology Infrastructure in High-school Buildings (교육정보화(敎育情報化)를 위한 고등학교(高等學校) 기반시설계획(基盤施設計劃)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Lee, Han-Seok;Lee, Kyung-Hoi;Bae, Hyun-Jeen
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.39-52
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    • 1996
  • Continuously expanding information technology is changing the world in which our students live. Many schools are using this new technology and many schools are contemplating the use of this new technology. The ways in which teachers and students work, and their dependence on information technology, have evolved significantly-increasing the importance of getting the information technology infrastructure right in schools. Yet, all too often, most of schools are unable to take full advantage of the opportunities that information technology offers since those designing and fitting out school buildings have failed to consider information technology adequately. This study is to guide the physical design of practical networked schools. In this paper, we present the ways to achieve architectural solutions to the manifold problems associated with accommodation of information technology in schools. The practical guidelines for planning and managing information technology infrastructure-that is, the spaces and services provided in the school building to support the user' information technology requirements-are offered. Adherence to these guidelines will provide a substantial degree of adapability and flexibility in school buildings.

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The Building for Safety Regulation DB of Urban Transit System Infrastructure used by Computer Design Tool (전산지원도구를 이용한 도시철도시설 안전기준 DB구축 연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Dong;Shin, Jeong-Ryul;Ahn, Tai-Ki
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2006.11b
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    • pp.786-790
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    • 2006
  • Urban rail transit offers target performance and function because various lower part system such as rolling-stock, signal, power and trackis consisted as complex. In order to function properly an urban rail transit which is complicated system to work as safety and reliability, System must secure safety with structure, design, manufacture, install and verification and it is important to establish a safety standard follows it procedures, establish what step all it is important to operate. Safety standard of urban transit infrastructure is minimum standard necessary to secure safety of signal, power and track. Urban rail transit standard business leads to make many requirements. Recently, many types of equipment have applied to manage requirements and standards for system efficiently in part of universal, airline and car accordingly applied equipments use to manage a pursuit(Trace) between standard of system. Especially importance of management is emphasized more become more. Importance of standard management which usesa computing support tool recently in transit filed is embossed and is predicted to be more such forward. Therefore we propose the effective method of management with infrastructure system by constructed data-base system.

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A Study on the Improvement Plan of Domestic Fire Industry (국내 소방산업 육성방안에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Mi-Young;Kim, Jung-Sook;Jung, Do-Young
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.60-70
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    • 2011
  • Due to the city concentrated symptoms, high-rise building symptoms and diversity, the scale of fire disaster is increasing. So the economic expectation of fire disaster industry is growing. The domestic fire industry has an inadequate system, and hasn't a methodical system to foster the industry. And also most of the fire industry company are small and poor scale. So they haven't enough infrastructure like technical skill, manpower, marketing and so on. In order to drive fire industry from local fire protection industry to knowledge service, in this study, the items of human resources fostering, infrastructure and R&D were set and analyzed as detailed growth analysis factors. Also, the improvement plans were suggested and compared with IT industry which is defined as core industry in the 21st century knowledge-based economy in Korea.

An Open Standard-based Terrain Tile Production Chain for Geo-referenced Simulation

  • Yoo, Byoung-Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.497-506
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    • 2008
  • The needs for digital models of real environment such as 3D terrain or cyber city model are increasing. Most of applications related with modeling and simulation require virtual environment constructed from geospatial information of real world in order to guarantee reliability and accuracy of the simulation. The most fundamental data for building virtual environment, terrain elevation and orthogonal imagery is acquired from optical sensor of satellite or airplane. Providing interoperable and reusable digital model is important to promote practical application of high-resolution satellite imagery. This paper presents the new research regarding representation of geospatial information, especially for 3D shape and appearance of virtual terrain. and describe framework for constructing real-time 3D model of large terrain based on high-resolution satellite imagery. It provides infrastructure of 3D simulation with geographical context. Web architecture, XML language and open protocols to build a standard based 3D terrain are presented. Details of standard-based approach for providing infrastructure of real-time 3D simulation using high-resolution satellite imagery are also presented. This work would facilitate interchange and interoperability across diverse systems and be usable by governments, industry scientists and general public.

The investment point on cooperative innovation in EVs for the spoke-smart cities : focused on Nordic countries and Korea

  • Seo, Dae-Sung
    • The Journal of Economics, Marketing and Management
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2017
  • E-infrastructural economy for ICT Living-Labs is a need for economic and cultural changes in various types of cars in accordance with the supply of the electric car. Depending on the number of cases by analyzing the supply and demand of electric vehicles among Korea and Northern Europe countries. it was indirectly proved that it makes economic growth. The research design is analyzed with the data and how to respond quickly to focus on the possibility of potential changes to the infrastructure realization and commercialization of government enterprises or electric cars through the ICT Living-Labs in Nordic countries. The data indicates that the leading commercialization emphasize on the development of the electric economic convergence and scalability for electric vehicle. When It shows the time of the infrastructure as ICT Living-Labs being delayed, it lowered growth target results for the development of the electric car industry in the future. All this is from the reason of opening the E-convergence economy over time. It is required that Korea should prepare E-convergence economy. Public regional energy should be present through the consistent selection of development for energy linking E-economy and E-trans distribution. Korea needs to be many difficulties in building the E- infrastructure for ICT Living-Labs. Unlike the Northern Europe it is to prepare the active support of both government and business. The role of the government discovers that the power generation through the quick selection of the industry, as well as to connect with the growth of the smart cities with the EVs industry.

Deep learning approach to generate 3D civil infrastructure models using drone images

  • Kwon, Ji-Hye;Khudoyarov, Shekhroz;Kim, Namgyu;Heo, Jun-Haeng
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.501-511
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    • 2022
  • Three-dimensional (3D) models have become crucial for improving civil infrastructure analysis, and they can be used for various purposes such as damage detection, risk estimation, resolving potential safety issues, alarm detection, and structural health monitoring. 3D point cloud data is used not only to make visual models but also to analyze the states of structures and to monitor them using semantic data. This study proposes automating the generation of high-quality 3D point cloud data and removing noise using deep learning algorithms. In this study, large-format aerial images of civilian infrastructure, such as cut slopes and dams, which were captured by drones, were used to develop a workflow for automatically generating a 3D point cloud model. Through image cropping, downscaling/upscaling, semantic segmentation, generation of segmentation masks, and implementation of region extraction algorithms, the generation of the point cloud was automated. Compared with the method wherein the point cloud model is generated from raw images, our method could effectively improve the quality of the model, remove noise, and reduce the processing time. The results showed that the size of the 3D point cloud model created using the proposed method was significantly reduced; the number of points was reduced by 20-50%, and distant points were recognized as noise. This method can be applied to the automatic generation of high-quality 3D point cloud models of civil infrastructures using aerial imagery.

Bicycle Custody Place Provision in the Station (역사내 자전거보관소 설치 방안)

  • Lee, Pil-Sin;Oh, Suk-Soon
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.1468-1477
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    • 2011
  • Central government and local self-governing bodies are actively promoting bicycle-riding as a solution for transportation, environment, energy and health. They put lot of efforts in the practice of bicycle-related policies such as building bicycle-related infrastructure and creating task force team to improve the bicycle-related systems. However, there is no substantive improvement in the city rail operation agencies regarding the bicycle-related facilities and operation. The expansion of bicycle-related infrastructure in city rail stations is urgently required considering the increase in demands from the bicycle-riders for the facility and bicycle-related service improvement. Accordingly, this study suggests a bicycle-riding vitalization plan linking the city rail and bicycle by providing with a bicycle custody place in the city rail stations which will have comprehensive convenience facilities including the safe-keeping facility for bicycles.

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Analysis of Singapore's BIM tender documents for the development of infrastructure BIM guidelines in Korea (국외 BIM 발주지침 분석을 통한 국내 토목 분야 BIM 가이드라인 개발 방향 제시에 관한 연구 - 싱가폴 토목 사업 과업지시서를 중심으로-)

  • Koo, Bon-Sang;Ok, Hyun;Yu, Young-Su;Jung, Rae-Kyu
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2018
  • Recent increase in the interest and adoption of BIM for infrastructure projects has created a need for formal BIM guidelines in the civil engineering domain. Currently a BIM guideline has been developed in Korea exclusively for the road sector. However, the guideline has gaps in the specification of how BIM models should be generated, managed and applied for maximum effect in projects. This study reviewed the guidelines and tender documents of Singapore to determine potential improvements to adopt in Korea. Results showed that Korea's guideline should focus more on process integration as to stipulating BIM deliverables, encourage a common data environment, clearly distinguish between compulsory and selective BIM applications, and require data and models that can be leveraged in the operation phase of the facility.

Cyber-Physical Computing: Leveraging Cloud computing for Ubiquitous Healthcare Applications (사이버 물리 컴퓨팅 : 유비쿼터스 건강 관리 응용에 대한 레버리징 클라우드컴퓨팅)

  • Abid, Hassan;Jin, Wang;Lee, Sung-Young;Lee, Young-Koo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2011.06b
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    • pp.41-43
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    • 2011
  • Cyber-Physical Systems are tight integration of computation, networking and physical objects to sense, monitor, and control the physical world. This paper presents a novel architecture that combines two next generation technologies i.e. cyber-physical systems and Cloud computing to develop a ubiquitous healthcare based infrastructure. Through this infrastructure, patients and elderly people get remote assistance, monitoring of their health conditions and medication while living in proximity of home. Consequently, this leads to major cost savings. However, there are various challenges that need to be overcome before building such systems. These challenges include making system real-time responsive, reliability, stability and privacy. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an architecture that deals with these challenges.