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General Disaster Scattered Action Research -Focusing On the Construction Site Accident Cases- (일반재해 발생시 산재처리 방안연구 -건설현장 사고사례를 중심으로-)

  • Yoo, Yong Tae;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 2015
  • Recently, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Management is a trend to strengthen all men death rate than the accident rate. Points reduction in the accident rate change orders related to credit rating score to +2 points in his plans as part of +1 point. In addition, according to the fancy linger RISK treatment in the event of a disaster site and fiction treatment to achieve accident-free during processing the scene interspersed with equity issues have been raised. In general disaster for the problem in the first two cases occurs when abnormal process according to the disaster site manager positions dismissal policy, each division headquarters itself, interspersed disasters performance compared to processing in accordance with the refrain, processing expenses in accordance with the composition of untreated industrial accident, costs and burdens partners FTC, there is a possibility that the issues raised, such as the Ministry of Employment and Labor. In response to domestic social practices focused on the construction site practices and prevention measures should be evaluated with respect to what.

An Economic Evaluation Study of Office Remodeling and Green-remodeling Projects : A Simulation Approach to a Rental Office in GBD, Seoul (생애주기를 고려한 오피스 건물의 리모델링과 그린리모델링의 경제성 평가 연구 : 서울시 강남업무지구의 임대오피스 사례)

  • Lee, Seong-Ho;Lee, Jae-Su
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 2018
  • Due to a waste of energy in korea, about 525,000 which are 75 percent of total buildings are at least 15 years old buildings that need remodeling. There are two current remodeling systems. One is a remodeling system to reduce a waste of resources from the reconstruction. The other is a green-remodeling system aimed to energy savings and reducing environmental costs. This study is to analyze quantitatively these current systems with respect to the cost-benefit caused by the life cycle and suggests the political and institutional implications through the interpretation of the results. For a quantitative analysis, we analyzed reducing maintenance costs and rent benefits with simulation by using opportunity costs, construction costs, plan costs and supervision costs as expense variables and using the reduced floor area ratio, institutional incentives, energy, water resources and certified emission reduction(CER) as benefit variables. As a result of the empirical study, the green-modeling was more beneficial in the field of environment such as the energy savings, however, the final benefits of remodeling which has no green building certification costs but more floor area ratio incentives were more economical. The green-remodeling system focused on reducing environmental costs and energy savings needs a equatable institutional incentive system.

Cost-Benefit Analysis on the Economic Effectiveness of Safety and Health Ledger (비용편익분석을 통한 안전보건대장의 경제적 효과성 분석)

  • Lim, Se-Jong;Won, Jeong-Hun;Shin, Seung-Hyeon;Seo, Jae-Min
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.409-420
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    • 2021
  • The safety and health ledger system, which gives the responsibility of safety and health management for construction site workers to the construction project owner, was introduced as part of the overall revision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. There is a need to explain the system's effectiveness in terms of economic feasibility to solve the execution problem of the system caused by low awareness and implementation rate. In this study, the economic effect of implementing the safety and health ledger system was analyzed using cost-benefit analysis based on the data discussed at the time of the introduction of the system. Results show that creating and managing the design safety and health ledger caused additional costs in implementing the system. As a result of comparing the cost of preparation and the direct and indirect benefits caused by the reduction of industrial accidents, the benefits were evaluated higher than the costs. Thus, it is thought that the safety and health ledger system reduces construction work accidents and generates economic effects.

A study on the evaluation for variation of revenue water ratio considering water supply area conditions and the development of proper cost estimation model of project for improvement of revenue water ratio (급수지역 여건을 고려한 유수율 변동 분석 및 적정 유수율 제고 사업비 산정 모델 개발)

  • Kiwon Kwon;Jinseok Hyung;Taehyeon Kim;Haekeum Park;Yoojin Oh;Jayong Koo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.37 no.6
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    • pp.409-423
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    • 2023
  • In this study, we analyzed how the revenue water ratio(RWR) is affected by changes in conditions of the water supply area, such as the ratio of aging pipes, maintenance conditions, and revenue water. As a result of analyzing the impact of pipe aging and maintenance conditions on the RWR, it was confirmed that the RWR could be decreased if the pipe replacement project to improve the aging pipe ratio was not carried out and proper maintenance costs were not secured. It was also confirmed that an increase in the revenue water could be operated to facilitate the achievement of the project's target RWR. In contrast, a decrease in the revenue water due to a population reduction could affect the failure of the target RWR. In addition to analyzing the causes of variation in the RWR, the calculation of estimated project costs was considered by using leakage reduction instead of RWR from recent RWR improvement project cost data. From this analysis, it was reviewed whether the project costs planned to achieve the target RWR of the RWR improvement project in A city were appropriate. In conclusion, the RWR could be affected by variations in the ratio of aging pipes, maintenance conditions, and revenue water, and it was reasonable to consider not only the construction input but also the input related to RWR improvement, such as leakage reduction, when calculating the project cost.

A Study on the Reduction of $CO_2$ Emissions and Operating Costs of the Ship in Port by Shore Electric Power (육상전력 사용에 따른 정박중인 선박의 $CO_2$ 배출 및 운항비용 절감에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Won-Hui;Lim, Kyung-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.229-234
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    • 2010
  • Recently, nations around the world are putting various efforts in many aspects to decrease greenhouse gases and international cooperation is urgently required. As part of these efforts, the shipping industry is working towords establishing "green parts" that reduce the carbon content of the greenhouse gases emitted in ports and can also decrease the operating costs. This study has tried to look for how to supply shore power instead of suppling ship's own generated power as a basic researches for reduction of carbon emissions and construction of "green parts" system. And in this paper, the training ship 'SAENURI' of Mokpo Maritime University under actual operation was selected to investigate for environmental and expense effects. The results of this study showed that $CO_2$ emissions Mere reduced 34% and operating costs Mere reduced approximately 31% in case of using the shore paper.

An Improvement Plan of Ex-post Settling up System on the Social Insurance of Construction Project - Focused on the National Pension and National Health Insurance - (건설공사 사회보험료 사후정산제도의 문제점 및 개선방안 - 국민연금 및 국민건강보험을 중심으로 -)

  • Oh, Chi-Don
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Structure & Construction
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2019
  • In the past, social insurance premiums, such as national pension and national health insurance, is contained within the costs of construction projects, have been lowered due to price competition of companies participating in the bidding. The government is implementing the "Ex-post settlement system" to improve the problem. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the concept of an Ex-post settlement system and background of its introduction and to identify problems in the management of the system. The problems of the Ex-post settlement system are: 1) avoiding the participation of construction workers, 2) the rigidity of the insurance premium settlement method in construction field, and 3) the cause of direct construction cost reduction. The ways to improve these problems are: 1) excluding social insurance premiums from construction project cost, 2) securing flexibility of the settlement method of insurance premiums in construction field, and 3) expanding the scope of persons eligible to participate in social insurance.

A Study on the Development Prospects of Building Construction Productivity through Construction Status Analysis (건설업 실태분석을 통한 건설업생산성의 발전전망에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Hong Tae;Jeon, Jun Tai;Lee, Yang Kyu
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.242-257
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    • 2012
  • Korea's population change trend is the aging and feminization as Reduction in mortality, average life extension. and is further increased Reduction of birth rate and aging population. if Our country concluded FTA(Free Trade Agreement) with the United States, Europe and China etc. labor-intensive industries will be the decline. Then, the construction workers' jobs are continually reduced. This is critical to the nation's economic, social and environmental influences due to Shortage of construction workforce and increasing labor costs. Eventually this is a major factor in reduced construction productivity. Therefore, this study is presented as a construction productivity development prospects on the value-added analysis per Labour productivity employee from Construction market trends, industry-specific productivity index, industry trends Employed, age tiered workforce trends, women's workforce trends, labor time trend, foreign workers, workforce trends, analysis of trends in construction contract, awarded by Company Size trends, construction management analysis index.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Construction and Agriculture: Uses, Benefits, Challenges, and Why Companies Choose to Invest

  • Pecoraro, James;Harper, Christofer;Wang, Chao
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.34-44
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    • 2017
  • The use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) in the construction and agriculture industries continues to gain in popularity and use. Firms within these industries have begun to utilize UASs to perform many of the traditional processes and procedures, which can result in a reduction in total work force and costs needed for a task. However, as with any technology, there is a learning curve and UASs do change the way certain activities are completed. Due to this, there exist firms and individuals that have not or are not willing to invest in UASs yet. The objective of this study is to explore the applications of UASs in construction and agricultural industries to discuss the benefits, challenges, and reasons of investing in UASs. This paper conducted an in-depth literature review of current topics on UASs in construction and agriculture. Additionally, six expert interviews were conducted with individuals from construction and agricultural industries in the southeastern United States. Ultimately, this study successfully found several benefits and challenges to using UASs and discussed the reasons that some firms invest in UASs while other still do not.

Evaluation of Installation Damage Factor for Geogrid using Maximum Particle Size of Backfill Material (뒤채움 최대입도를 이용한 지오그리드 보강재의 시공손상계수 산정 방법)

  • Kim, Kyung-Suk;Choi, Young-Chul;Kim, Tae-Soo;Lim, Seoung-Yoon
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.29-37
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    • 2007
  • Reduction Factor for Installation Damage required for calculation of design strength of geogrid used in MSEW(mechanically stabilized earth wall) design is usually obtained in the field test simulating real construction condition. However, damages occurred in geogrid during backfill work are influenced by many factors such as polymer types, unit weight per area, backfill construction method and gradation of backfill material and field test considering these factors demands lots of time and costs. In this study, factors affecting installation damage are analyzed and empirical method for evaluating reduction factor for installation damage using maximum particle size in backfill material is suggested.

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The effects of congestion cost reduction by the application of Superconducting cable (초전도케이블에 의한 전력계통의 혼잡비용 저감 효과)

  • Kim, Hyun-Houng;Lee, Geun-Jun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.66-68
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    • 2005
  • In Korea power system, the transfer capability of transmission line is limited by the voltage stability and it is difficult to construct new iron tower due to incremental interest for environmental problem and construction costs. Recently, HTS cable could be one of the countermeasures to solve the transfer limit because of it is transported to large power with compact size However, the characteristic of HTS cable have a various problem. This paper presents the effects of congestion cost reduction by the application of HTS (High-Temperature Superconducting) cable. In this paper, the transmission ability before and after application of HTS cable are examined in a viewpoint for voltage stability. therefore, the effects of congestion cost reduction by HTS cable.

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