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Improving Data Input of ECO2-OD Program Utilizing BIM (BIM을 이용한 ECO2-OD 프로그램의 정보입력 개선)

  • Kang, Min-Su;Kim, Ka-Ram;Yu, Jung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.205-207
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    • 2013
  • In a situation that building energy consumption is increasing worldwide, the research utilizing BIM technology to analyze building energy has been actively conducted. On the other hand, data input method of the building energy analysis has been still manually entered. This paper proposed a improved input method of required information for building energy analysis using the ECO2-OD program. As a result, although some required information of BIM based design software could be almost entered when it comes to general information and architectural sector, it has a problem to be handled in HVAC sector. Therefore, in the both of general and architectural sectors, the BIM information from the BIM-based design software could be directly used to automatically and systematically input the information. Future research should be studied the algorism and method in connection with data exchange to utilize input method of ECO2-OD from BIM data.

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A Review of Large-Scale Hydropower Project in Public Sector of Pakistan

  • Umair, Muhammad;Choudhary, Muhammad Abbas;Jahanzaib, Mirza
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.47-59
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    • 2014
  • Client organization inadequate project planning before awarding the contract and insufficient monitoring and control system among the parties involved create severe problems. Ultimately, large-scale projects go beyond the expected cost and time control limits. This paper discusses the major issues involved with a large-scale Hydropower Project in Pakistan Public Sector environment. The latest approved Baseline Plan of project was reviewed and analyzed using Variance Analysis and Trend Analysis techniques in Primavera project management software to assess the efforts made of the parties involved. It was found that Project is 202% Cost overrun and 25% time delays from original contract award. After analysis of baseline plan and quantification of various variance issues in impacted activities, the questionnaire survey was conducted to identify the impact of causative factors. There were almost 17 most significant causative factors identified among 60 identified factors and responsibilities are assigned accordingly. At the end recommendations are made for strategic decisions as lessons learned during project evaluation.

MODELING THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROCESS IN THE THAI CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: A PILOT STUDY

  • Tanut Waroonkun;Rodney A. Stewart;Sherif Mohamed
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.845-848
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    • 2005
  • Technology transfer (TT) has been defined as the shared responsibility between the source and the destination for ensuring that technology is accepted and at least understood by someone with the knowledge and resources to apply and/or use the technology. The adoption of TT in construction industries is necessary for economic growth to occur in developing countries such as Thailand. This process should provide numerous benefits for the host sector in areas such as increased productivity, enhancement of product quality, cost savings, improvements in market share and entry to new markets. However, there are many factors, which may impact on the TT process and its subsequent outcomes for Thai construction firms and individuals, including, the transfer environment, learning environment, transferor characteristics and transferee characteristics. The performance and interaction of these enablers will influence the degree of value added to the local construction sectors in areas such as economic advancement, knowledge advancement and project performance. This paper presents a conceptual framework for international TT that accommodates the numerous factors believed to impact on the processes effectiveness. Through a Pilot Study, where 27 industry professionals from Thailand were interviewed, the significant factors which impact on the TT process have been identified along with the strength of interrelationship between individual and groups of factors. Future research seeks to target a greater sample of respondents with the view to validate the conceptual model and apply it on a number of large Thai projects where international TT was incorporated into the project agreement.

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DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF FAILURE-BASED LEARNING MODEL FOR CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

  • Do-Yeop Lee;Cheol-Hwan Yoon;Chan-Sik Park
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.99-106
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    • 2011
  • Recent demands from construction industry have emphasized the capability for graduates to have improved skills both technical and non-technical such as problem solving, interpersonal communication. To satisfy these demands, problem-based learning that is an instructional method characterized by the use of real world problem has been adopted and has proven its effectiveness various disciplines. However, in spite of the importance of field senses and dealing with real problem, construction engineering education has generally focused on traditional lecture-oriented course. In order to improve limitations of current construction education and to satisfy recent demands from construction industry, this paper proposes a new educational approach that is Failure-Based Learning for using combination of the procedural characteristics of the problem-based learning theory in construction technology education utilizing failure information that has the educational value in the construction area by reinterpreting characteristics of construction industry and construction failure information. The major results of this study are summarized as follows. 1) Educational effect of problem-based learning methodology and limitation of application in construction area 2) The educational value of the information on construction failure and limitation in application of the information in construction sector 3) Anticipated effect from application of the failure-based learning 4) Development and application of the failure-based learning model

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Authentic Leadership and Construction Superintendent Effectiveness

  • Broughton, Benjamin;Lee, Soon-Jae;Ryu, Jay Sang;Talley, Kimberly
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2016
  • The construction industry suffers from declining productivity and lack of trust between stakeholders and among the public. Increasing technical, regulatory, environmental and ethical challenges face the sector and necessitate a new type of leader. Authentic leadership is a relatively new construct that focuses on a leader demonstrating self-awareness, relational transparency, an internalized ethical and moral perspective and balanced processing. This study uses the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire to measure construction superintendent's levels of authentic leadership and compares them to effectiveness ratings. There is a correlation between higher authentic leadership scores and effectiveness and this study concludes that authentic leaders are more effective superintendents.

Understanding Technology-Enhanced Construction Project Delivery: perspective from expansive learning and adaptive expertise

  • Sackey, Enoch;Kwadzo, Dzifa A.M.
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.26-38
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    • 2017
  • The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is yet to formulate a holistic strategy to realign the evolving technological infrastructures with organisational ambitions and adaptive knowledge of the workforce. This study attempts to create an understanding of the underlying processes adopted by technology-enhanced construction organisations to disseminate and maintain knowledge within the workforce in order to keep pace with the evolving construction technologies. The study adopted expansive learning and adaptive expertise constructs to help better explain workplace learning support structures for organisational effectiveness in a turbulent situation. The two theories were tailored to empirically evaluate three case study construction organisations that have embarked on technology-enabled organisational changes. The study concluded on the creation of a facilitating workplace learning environment to enable the workforce to adapt into and resolve any inherent contradictions and cognitive ambiguities of the changing organisational conditions. This could ensure that novel and conflicting features of the emerging technologies can be adapted across the myriad multi-functional project activities in order to expand the frontiers of the technological capabilities to address the eminent issues confronting the AEC sector.

A Study on Problems and Improvement of Disaster Prevention Technology Guidance(Focused on construction disaster) (재해예방 기술지도의 문제점과 개선방안에 관한 연구 (건설 재해를 중심으로))

  • Roh, Tae-Woo;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 2016
  • Recently, industrial accidents rate has been gradually decreasing due to the development of safety management methods, but until now, the accident rate in the construction sector is higher than other industries. Large-scale construction sites are operating systematic safety systems to reduce industrial accidents. However, small and medium sized construction sites do not have systematic safety system and lack safety management ability, so that disaster is not reduced compared with large scale construction site. As a result, disaster prevention technology instruction system has been implemented to reduce the disasters of small and medium scale construction sites. However, in the case of a small construction site less than 2 billion won, there is little decrease in the accident rate, and in some cases, the accident rate increases. After the technical guidance system has been implemented, it is necessary to identify the performance and problems of implementation and to improve its effectiveness. In this study, we suggest the improvement plan to improve the efficiency of the technical guidance system by analyzing the problems and actual conditions of technical guidance operation in small and medium sized construction work sites.

The Critical Factors of Project Management in Sudanese Construction Projects

  • Hakami, Waled Gaber Mohammed;Yousif, Mohamed Ibrahim
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2014
  • The Sudanese construction sector is characterized by many small and large projects and high labor intensity, and accounted for 3.2% of the Sudanese country's GDP. The basic problems facing the Sudanese construction projects are the factors that affect on construction project performance. The objectives include identifying the factors affecting the performance of Sudanese construction projects, and to determine the critical factors. The literature review has been done to gather the information about the causes and their factors that affect on the performance of construction projects from the previous researches. The research methodology was conducted to gather the data by questionnaire which was examined to be reliable and valid according to statistical tests. The (34) factors were identified as factors affect on construction projects and the (10) factors were the critical factors which may lead to poor performance of Sudanese construction projects. This study has some conclusions such as the instrument for measuring the critical factors on the performance is reliable and valid, so the project management stage performance is 64.2%.

Keyword Analysis of Drone Research in Domestic Construction Industry (키워드 분석을 통한 국내 드론 연구 동향 분석)

  • Kang, Woo-Taak;Lee, Seung-Yeon;Kim, Min-Ji;Yu, Jung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.43-44
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    • 2021
  • As drone technology advances, the cases of using drones in the construction industry are increasing rapidly. Research by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, has shown that drone use in the construction sector is expected to expand the fastest, and research has been carried out continuously to utilize drones in the construction industry. In this way, we will identify drone research trends in the construction industry as a basic data that will provide direction for future research. This paper collected papers for 10 years from 2011 to 2020 and keyword analysis through Gephi 0.9.2. This paper was classified by the study details of the paper with the upper keywords by year, through which it analyzed the changes in the direction of the study by field. The data in this paper is designed to contribute to the development of balanced drone utilization research, despite the limitations of 10-year statistics.

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A Study on Establishment of a Scientific Policy Process for Technology Commercialization (기술사업화를 위한 과학정책 프로세스 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dae-Geon;Cha, Hun;Jung, sinyoung;Choi, Sang-Hwan;Moon, Kyeong-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2014.11a
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    • pp.216-217
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    • 2014
  • Science & Technology(S&T) is the most important thing to attain competitiveness in the 21st century. Our traditional S&T policies have been forcused on hardware infra structure. We should consider software of S&T to enhance effectiveness. S&T Should be had a correct understanding method of the creation for S&T culture. It implies that S&T policy should consider nonmaterial factors which include social, environmental and culture. Under this background, The purpose of this paper is to seek new S&T policy. Therefor this paper deals with how we can prepare for the future S&T policy and classify the change of S&T policy of korea. In addition, Recent construction sector integration and fusion technologies in various areas of research and planning system is being maintained by the system. Past experience of conservative management in this emerging technology-driven technology commercialization in management of technology through the convergence of various technologies and to find synergies to secure the future of construction technology because it is a need.

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