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The Method of Value System Management to support decision-making of Urban Regeneration Project (도시재생사업의 의사결정 지원을 위한 가치체계 관리 방안)

  • Kang, Hyun-Koo;Yu, Jung-Ho;Kim, Chang-Duk;Son, Bo-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.139-150
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    • 2009
  • Objective of Urban regeneration is a recovery of urban utilities through a physical, environmental, cultural, industrial and economic regeneration. The current paradigm of urban regeneration is not a simple redevelopment as physical redevelopment or improvement. This study is proposed that value system management applied the benefit management, value system, Quality Function deployment for a value conflict of urban regeneration. There is a reason to conflict value that value system is unstructured. Because this study is proposed to establish the process of value system, and applied this process to Se-woon 4th area urban regeneration project. This study is analyzed to divide value system of urban regeneration program into city level, district level, zone level in district. An analysis of value system obtained through '2020 urban master plan', 'the downtown recreate a comprehensive plan', 'Se-woon New town plan'. It is proposed that value system management method through Between values correlation analysis and the order of priority deduction. These are obtained to use Delphi technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)

A Feasibility Study to Adopt BIM-based Infrastructure Management System (BIM기반 사회기반 시설물 유지관리 도입을 위한 경제적 타당성 분석)

  • Kim, Jeonghwan;Ji, Seung-Gu;Jeong, Taehyung;Seo, Jongwon
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.285-292
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    • 2014
  • BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a new paradigm that includes construction life-cycle, and BIM has become mandatory regulation according to the Public Procurement Service since 2016, which accelerates its application. BIM is now expand from architectural field to infrastructure industry. Through pilot projects, BIM has been challenged with verification process. This trend has affected to maintenance and operation (M&O) phase of construction life-cycle. Advanced country has already published their research and result with feasibility study and guidelines. In this paper, we conduct the feasibility study to adopt BIM-based infrastructure management system. Bridges and tunnels were selected as application target, and benefit/cost ratio were used. The result shows that BIM-based infrastructure management system is feasible when the level of detail is more than "Medium" in bridge, and "High" in tunnel.

Global Trend of Cement Production and Utilization of Circular Resources

  • Lim, Chaeyeon;Jung, Euntae;Lee, Seongho;Jang, Changsun;Oh, Chaewoon;Shin, Kyung Nam
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.57-63
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we reported that the global trend of cement production and utilization as raw materials and as a fuel. As we know, cement is one of the significant materials required for the construction industry. The recent trend of rising urbanization, both the cement and construction industry played a vital role. The cement industry is a major sustainable infrastructure for the countries. Currently, China producing cement half of the world's cement production. During the year 2018, Korea producing cements nearly 57.5 million metric tons. Waste materials are used as circular resources and also having tremendous benefits for cement production. Another important use of these circular resources is fuel for the cement industry. There is a large potential benefit of the cement industry, but it's creating a severe environmental threat. The cement industry contributes to the major emissions of CO2. This leads the global warming. As per the Paris agreement, the Korean government initiated the recycling policy of waste materials and also the utilization of circular resources for the prevention of limited natural resources and also the global warming effect.

A Study on Smoking Area Guidelines that Respect the Rights of the People - With a Focus on Independent Outdoor Smoking Areas - (국민 권리존중을 위한 흡연공간 가이드라인 연구 - 실외 독립형을 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Byoung-Ho
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.154-163
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    • 2013
  • Current principles of designating a smoking area within a non-smoking area rely on mere compartmentalization. This causes non-smokers aversion against smokers and smokers complaints about anti-smoking policies, which means both of them are not satisfied with the current scheme. In addition, such a system, far from the original intent of the law, does not provide appropriate respect for people's rights. The biggest problem of the current scheme is that smoking areas are not separated from non-smoking areas. Japan has continued installing independent smoking areas since 2002 and witnessed a decrease in the smoking rate. The country's success is attributable to: the state's active intervention in connection with enterprises; continuous environmental improvements and creation of goods; 'smoking etiquette' campaigns; and the sociality and group consciousness of Japanese people. It is recognized that the synergy of the designation of independent smoking areas and such multi-faceted efforts has led to the nation's accomplishment. Hence, it is required to install independent smoking areas in non-smoking areas in Seoul in order to respect the rights of smokers and non-smokers and resolve conflicts between them. It is not suitable to merely model after Japan's case, however, studies and guidelines that are tailored to Korea's own environment and social atmosphere are required. To ensure that the people recognize the necessity for smoking areas, a social consensus is formed and proper smoking areas are established in a systemic manner, a system for that purpose should connote a symbol of the social consensus and consequent guidelines should take physical elements, human activities and semantic assignment into consideration. This study aims to present basic guidelines to install separated smoking areas, which will keep distance between smokers and non-smokers, form a social consensus and establish a sound smoking culture. These would ensure that the rights of both smokers and non-smokers are fully respected and that government policies are trusted by the people.

Measurement of the Greenhouse Gas Emission Benefits from the Marine Bio-Energy Development Project (해양바이오에너지 개발사업의 온실가스 저감편익 추정)

  • Kim, Tae-Young;Pyo, Hee-Dong;Kim, Hye-Min;Park, Se-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.217-225
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    • 2013
  • It is time to develop new renewable energy that could fundamentally replace fossil fuel, which has been increasingly needed due to environmental pollution and energy security. Korean marine bio-energy development project is planned to produce 50% of total bioenergy. This study attempts to measure the greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits of marine bio-energy development project through contingent valuation method. Single bounded dichotomous choice (SBDC) is applied with spike model. The results show that the average willingness to pay are estimated to be KRW 4,190 at SBDC, per household per year. If the result has been expanded to the region which is survey conducted, KRW 50.1 billion annually. These quantitative information can be usefully utilized in the cost benefit analysis to implement project and policy-making for the industrialization of marine bio-energy development project.

Electricity Demand and the Impact of Pricing Reform: An Analysis with Household Expenditure Data (가구별 소비자료를 이용한 전력수요함수 추정 및 요금제도 변경의 효과 분석)

  • Kwon, Oh-Sang;Kang, Hye-Jung;Kim, Yong-Gun
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.409-434
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    • 2014
  • This paper estimates household demand for electricity using a micro-level household expenditure data set. A two-stage estimation method where the endogenous block price estimates are obtained from a discrete block choice model is used. This method successfully identifies a downward sloping conditional demand function with the data, while both the usual two-stage method with instrumental variable estimation and the Hewitt-Hanemann discrete-continuous model fail to do that. The paper simulates the impacts of two hypothetical pricing reforms that reduce the number of blocks and make the price gap smaller. It is shown that the reform may increase the overall consumer benefit, but is regressive.

The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibilities and Financial Reporting Quality: Focusing on Distribution & Service Companies (사회적 공헌활동과 재무보고품질: 유통, 서비스 기업을 중심으로)

  • Chae, Soo-Joon;Ryu, Hae-Young
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.16 no.10
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - This paper examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial reporting quality. Corporate social responsibility is a way for firms to take responsibility for the social and environmental impacts of their business operations. Corporate social responsibility is a broad concept that can take various forms depending on the firm and industry. Through corporate social responsibility programs, firms can benefit society. At the same time, firms improve their reputations by increasing engagement in corporate social responsibility activities. However, corporate social responsibility activities are not directly related to profitability, especially for distribution firms. Research design, data, and methodology - 229 distribution & service firm-years between 2011 and 2016 are used for the main analysis. In Korea, Korean Economic Justice Institute evaluates the ethical performance of Korean firms, and the institute annually discloses the scores of top firms. This study uses the KEJI Index scores to measure firm-level corporate social responsibility activities. Discretionary accruals are used as a proxy for financial reporting quality. Discretionary accruals can be used opportunistically, and thus distort the information in earnings. We extract financial data from the KIS Value database. Results - We find that distribution & service firms' engagement in corporate social responsibilities is positively related to their financial reporting quality. First, there is a negative correlation between implementation of corporate social responsibility activities and discretionary accruals. In addition, we find that the coefficient of CSR is significantly negative, supporting our prediction. The result is significant at the 1% level. Conclusions - We examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility activities of distribution firms and their financial reporting quality while most prior studies examine the engagement in corporate social responsibility activities of manufacturing firms. The results of this study show that distribution & service firms engaging in corporate social responsibility activities are likely to maintain high-quality financial reporting.

Strategies to Improve Functional Competency and Effectively Respond to Environmental Changes of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Team in Companies (기업의 환경, 보건, 및 안전 (EHS) 조직의 직무능력 개선과 환경변화 대응 방안)

  • Kim, Myung Jung;Park, Sun-Kyoung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 2016
  • Our nation has experienced remarkable growth over the half a century. Nonetheless, there is still much room for improvement in the area of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS). In particular, frequency and severity of industrial accidents did not considerably improve compared to the economic and social progress we made. The main objective of this research is to analyze what plans and actions are required for companies to promote industrial safety by 1) fostering functional competencies of EHS staffs and 2) effectively and proactively responding to rapidly changing EHS environment. For this research, EHS staffs from five large companies in Korea were surveyed. Most respondents indicated that one of key expertise required by EHS staffs is capabilities to effectively deal with changes to various domestic and international EHS-related laws and regulations. Furthermore, a predominant number of respondents commented that it is imperative for EHS staffs to have a broad knowledge of business management. As for internal issues that EHS staffs encounter within their organizations, many pointed out that their EHS vision is not sufficiently shared throughout the organization, and that the rules of leadership are critical in solving this issue. On the other hand, the survey respondents also raised an issue of limited EHS-related investments due to slow economy. As a solution, they proposed ways to align EHS organization's performance with the company's performance. Based on this survey, issues and solutions for EHS organizations were identified. Results of this research can benefit companies that plan to newly establish or further expand EHS organization.

A Study on Realization of System in Wireless Location Awareness Technology Using Ubiquitous Active RFID (Active RFID를 이용한 실내 무선 위치 인식 기반 스마트 센서 빌딩 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Chang Duk
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 2006
  • This paper is wireless location awareness technology using RFID. We investigates the Location of the received Signal strength reported by RF Analyses of the data are performed to understand the underlying features of location fingerprints. The system is performed factors the extreme environmental Emit signal, which consists of a unique 5000 Terminals. The Location Service have become very popular in many service industries, purchasing and distribution logistics, industry, manufacturing companies and a parking place. The Technically optimal Solution would be the storage of Intelligence information in the most common form of electronic data-carrying device in use in everyday life is the smart card based upon a contact field (telephone smart card, bank cards). The method of an indoor positioning experiment system is compared using measured Location data and a charge of service. The result of research showed the following: first, to check out the mechanism between benefit of system installation and operation of Active RFID. Second, it contributed on indoor wireless location intelligence system efficiency.

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Estimation of Water Quality Improvement Benefit by Supplying Environmental Water Use of Dam (댐의 환경개선용수 공급에 따른 수질개선 편익 산정)

  • Yeo, Kyu-Dong;Kim, Woo-Chan;Yi, Choong-Sung;Shim, Myung-Pil
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.1489-1493
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    • 2008
  • 신규 수자원개발을 위해서는 사회적으로 공감대를 형성해야 하며, 사업을 평가할 수 있는 기준과 방법이 객관성과 타당성을 가져야 한다. 이를 위해 수자원개발 사업시 대상이 되는 편익과 비용을 제시하여 계량화하는 것이 필요하다. 수자원사업에 따른 편익 및 비용의 대상 항목과 그 필요성은 기존에 이미 정립되어 있으나 용수공급과 홍수조절, 수력발전 등 일부 항목에 대한 계량화만이 비교적 실체적으로 연구되었을 뿐이다. 그러나 최근의 사회적 여건변화에 따라 환경개선, 관광 및 레크리에이션, 주운 등 다양한 편익항목의 계량화 방안 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 댐에 의한 환경개선용수공급에 따른 하천수질개선 편익의 계량화 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 댐에 의한 하천의 수질개선은 크게 두 가지 측면에서 바라볼 수 있는데 하천유량 증대에 따른 희석효과와 수처리 시설에 의한 정수효과가 그것이다. 본 연구는 댐으로부터 공급되는 풍부한 유량을 바탕으로 희석효과에 의한 하류 수질개선 편익을 계량화하기 위한 것이다. 즉, 풍부한 유량으로 유량감소에 따른 수질악화를 막고, 희석작용에 의한 자정작용의 향상 및 이에 따른 수질개선 효과에 대한 편익이다. 본 연구는 이를 위하여 낙동강수계 내에 신규댐 건설에 의한 하류 수질개선 편익을 산정하고자 한다. 기존에는 환경개선용수 공급을 위한 댐의 편익산정에 대체댐에 의한 대체시설비용법을 적용하였으나, '댐을 대체하는 또 다른 댐'에 의한 편익산정이 갖는 이론적 모순이 제기될 수 있어 설득력을 갖기 힘든 면이 있었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 댐의 환경개선용수 공급을 통한 수질개선 효과를 산정한 후, 이에 상당하는 효과를 환경기초시설에 의해 구현하였을 때의 비용을 계산하여 환경개선용수 공급의 편익으로 가정하는 대체시설비용법을 제시하였다.

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