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Multi-family Residential Construction Management Practice in the U.S.

  • Cho, Namho
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1254-1254
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    • 2022
  • The Multi-family Residential is one of the most famous building types for a rental property in the US. Often times it includes multiple residential buildings and some amenity facilities, including a clubhouse or leasing office, swimming pool, dog park, and garages. Since the building type is built for rental purposes, the construction planning is phased and it makes the project complicated. Detailed planning and execution are important for successful construction management. This paper provides some management practices that are applied to one of the multi-family residential construction projects in Phoenix, AZ. The Front End Planning (FEP) process performed by both owner and contractor is the first key to a successful construction project. Specifically, the early review of phased turnover strategy, grading, fire/Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, and Mechanical/ Electricity/Plumbing/Technology (MEPT) will provide absolute benefit to the project. Second, using a scheduling method to control short-term schedules and long-term can provide the ability to manage the issues with agility. Third, material delivery and procurement dominate the both project schedule and cost. With this COVID-19 circumstance, it is hard to expect the material, equipment, and labor forces to be delivered on time with the contracted price. Managing floats are more than important to managing construction productivity. Risk management should work to share the risks fairly. Lastly, turnover is directly linked with the profit of the project for both owner and contractor. The communication between the owner and contractor to re-schedule the proper turnover schedule is important for the phased construction project.

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Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)-Aided System for Logistics Monitoring: Supply Chains in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Plant Construction

  • Moon, Sungkon;Chi, Hung-Lin;Forlani, John;Wang, Xiangyu
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.195-199
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    • 2015
  • Many conventional management methods have emphasized the minimization of required resources along the supply chain. Accordingly, this paper presents a proposed method called the Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)-aided system. It is based on object-oriented resource control, in order to accomplish a feed-forward control monitoring supply chain logistics. The system is supported by two main parts: (1) IT-based Technologies; and (2) VDC Models. They enable the system to convey proactive information from the detection technology to its linked visualization. The paper includes a field study as the system's pre-test: the Scaffolding Works in a LNG Mega Project. The study demonstrates a system of real-time productivity monitoring by use of the RFIDbased Mobile Information Hub. The on-line 'productivity dashboard' provides an opportunity to display the continuing processes for each work-package. This research project offers the observed opportunities created by the developed system. Future work will entail research experiments aimed towards system validation.

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A Study on Variation Control in Building Construction Process (건축공사 공정중심의 변이관리에 관한 연구)

  • Oh Sang-Jun;Suh Sang-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.2 no.4 s.8
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    • pp.117-126
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study is to present a way of Variation Control in building construction process. The study suggest a way of the application method of shielding, decoupling concept and also Poka-yoke device to control variation that occurs from uncertainty in construction industry with lots of waste factors. The main contents of the study are as follows; (1) It's suggested strategy to apply shielding, decoupling as variation control technique. (2) Current Poka-yoke devices are investigated and analyzed. As a future research, it is required to study continuously on the more effective application method of Poka-yoke device and on existing examples in domestic construction sites for the process improvement.

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Analysis on the Changes of Teachers' Consciousness and Ambivalent Attitude through the Environmental Education Training (환경교육 직무연수를 통한 교사들의 의식변화와 양면가치태도 변화 분석)

  • Lee, Jin-Heon;Sung, Jung-Jin;Choi, Jin-Ha
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.18 no.1 s.26
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    • pp.120-133
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    • 2005
  • This study investigated the changes of consciousness and ambivalent attitudes about the important environmental issues among the teachers who enrolled the environmental education training. Experimental and control groups were composed with 47 and 30 person, respectively. Environmental issues were constructions of sea-wall, nuclear power plant and dam. Cronbach alpha of the self-developed questionnaire was $0.6909{\sim}0.8992$. Score were made with 5 Likert scales for consciousness, and with semantic differential half scale for ambivalent attitudes. Almost teachers(94.0% and 97.1%) have above 10 years teaching career. Strangers in environmental program were 53.2%. After environmental training, teachers' consciousness was significantly changed to negative about the construction of sea-wall for the farm field and industry complex area(p=0.019), and about the construction of dam for disaster like flood(p=0.026), and for adverse effects of citizen by fog(p=0.042). They were also significantly changed to negative about the construction of nuclear power plant for economical energy(p=0.004)', no-emission of greenhouse gases(p=0.033)', 'alternative energy(p=0.000)', 'destruction of ecology(p=0.052)' and 'social fear(p=0.009)'. The consciousness of teachers who have the experience of environmental training, were significantly changed to negative about the construction of nuclear power plant. Scores of teachers' ambivalent attitudes were made lower in experimental than control group about the construction of sea-wall and nuclear power plant. After education training, they were made lower so much as -10.0% in control, but higher much as +4.4% in experimental, and severely higher much as 86.5% in teachers who had experienced the environmental training about construction of sea-wall. Their scores were made lower so much as -3.3% in control, but much as -6.4% in control.

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Analysis of Road Construction Projects' Escalation under Historical Data-Based Estimate System in Jeju (실적공사비가 적용된 제주도 도로공사의 물가변동률 영향 분석)

  • Hong, Jeong-Ho;Lee, Dong Wook
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.667-676
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    • 2014
  • This study has conducted case studies in order to suggest alternatives to the historical data-based estimate system. Price fluctuation calculation methods based on historial cost indexes, standard estimate and construction cost indexes were applied to 9 road construction sites in Jeju for an analysis. As a result, in 5 construction sites (about 56% of 9 sites), the index control rate calculated based upon historical data-based estimate system was higher than that calculated based upon standard estimate and construction cost indexes. Thus the establishment of the requirements for the adjustment of contract price due to price fluctuation delays, which leads to a significant difference in price fluctuation amount. And, in an analysis of construction cost indexes, the indexes for road construction were used for calculating index control rate which ranges from 2.0 to 9.4 percent, indicating the time of construction amount and price fluctuation application has a significant influence on index control rate.

Extraction of the Key Performance Indicators of Construction Management Using Balanced Score Card (균형성과표를 활용한 건설사업관리의 핵심성과지표 도출)

  • Lim, Wooseok;Jung, Jihyun;Lee, Hakki
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.22-30
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    • 2015
  • Enterprises should set up realizable goals and continually control the goals from apprehending whether they can be realized or not so that the enterprises grow consistently. Furthermore, from supplementing parts to be improved, goals are reset and the result should be controlled in order to fit to them. Lately, a lot of discussions about the results of organizations, projects, and companies are being realized in construction field. Particularly, in construction management, effective and professional control activities throughout the life cycle of facilities as well as the stage of business implementation of construction work are needed. About the result measurement of the construction management, lots of most domestic researches stay in the level of establishing basic concepts. Also, since characteristics of the construction field and the construction management were not reflected properly, it is in a situation that the result control system is not applied to on-site real works. Hence, this study intends to suggest fundamental data for measuring objective results from extracting result areas and key performance indicators of the construction management using Balanced Score Card.

Improvement Plan of Fugitive Dust Regulations in Construction Site (건설현장 비산먼지 규정 개선방안)

  • Noh, Hyunjun;Yu, Jungho
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.68-76
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    • 2017
  • A recent issue of fine dust is particulate matter with a diameter of less than $10{\mu}g/m^3$. It's classified as a pollutant that has a fatal effect on the human body when inhaled. The fugitive dust must be well controlled, since the adverse effects of dust on the surroundings are increased when the dust is blown away by the wind. Since the construction site is the place where the most fugitive dust is discharged in Korea, managing the fugitive dust discharged from the construction site can be an important issue to solve the problem of domestic fine dust. However, since the construction industry in Korea is the largest in Korea, it is difficult to control the emission of fugitive dust in the domestic construction site. In this paper, we compare and analyze the fugitive dust regulations applied to construction sites in major cities and propose the improvement plans to help control the fugitive dust generated in domestic construction sites.

The Cost Saving Method on Each Building Phase by Analyzing the Cost Structure (비용구조분석에 의한 건축단계별 공사비용 절감방법)

  • Park, Keun-Joon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.5 no.1 s.15
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2005
  • Building costs means capital costs which include cost of land, costs of acquiring and preparing the site, construction costs, professional fees, furnishings, cost of financing the project. and cost of management required to run and maintenance the building for use. There are several phases that determine the building costs : design phase, construction phase, and operation & maintenance phase. So, the cost of work could be set against the examining the full range of complexities that a building program might contain. To solve this problem, it needs to compute building cost systematically. This is still in the development stage, awaiting the organization of rational cost data base. The method of cost saving by cost control could be constituted by detailed knowledge of building costs for all possible combinations of components and subsystems that can be assembled into integration model of cost factor on each phase of project development. The model of cost saving in each building phase is available for procedures of cost control of building systems.

DEVELOP AND USE OF STUD PENETRATE WELDING TECHNOLOGY IN COMPOSITE FLOOR OF STEEL STRUCTURE

  • Fu, Jifei;Zhang, Youquan;Ma, Dezhi
    • Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.349-354
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    • 2002
  • Stud penetrate welding is an important item of composite floor in modern steel structure, especially in high-rise buildings. But it is difficult to get satisfied welding quality due to all kinds of factors. In this paper, the author put forward a new welding procedure named method of energy control through analysis and comparison of the wave curves of stud welding based on large amount of experiments and tests in laboratory and construction areas. The use of this welding procedure in some large engineering in recent years proved that this method is effective and practicable

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Analysis of Construction Schedule Progress Management Practice (건설공사 진도관리의 현황 분석에 대한 연구)

  • Shin, Yoon-Kyung;Yun, Seok-Heon;Pack, Joon-Hong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.207-211
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    • 2010
  • As mega-sized and complex building construction projects are increased, the importance of project scheduling and control is emphasized. Project scheduling and control technic is not used widely yet in Korea, but interests in it is progressively increased. By now, most research projects mainly have focused on scheduling issues. Project progress management is also as much important as project scheduling issues. Current state about project progress management in Korea is analysed and way for improvements are suggested in this paper. At first, research projects undergone and practice are analysed and fields experts are survey about current state about project progress management. This study suggests the progress management method for quantitative and qualitative project progress analysis.

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