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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"CONSTRUCTION WORKER"”.
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Vision-Based Construction Worker Task Productivity Monitoring
Over the past decades, the construction industry lags further and further behind the manufacturing sector when productivity is considered. This is due to internal factors that take place on-site. Almost all of them are directly related to the way that productivity is monitored. Current practices …
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Lightning Flowers
… collapse of Waylan Dranger, an East Texas construction worker / folk artist. Waylan suffers from hallucinatory encounters with Reeve, his missing brother. Reeve often blames Waylan for his disappearance and implied death. Waylan also worries that Sam, his live-in girlfriend, will leave him …
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An Integrated Framework for Worker Planning and Supervision in Construction
Construction is a highly labour-intensive industry; therefore, the planning of worker crews is vital to achieving quality, cost, schedule and productivity targets. However, current construction practices do not initiate worker planning during the early stages of construction, nor do they pay …
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Monitoring and designing built environments with computer vision
The digitalization of the construction industry has led to workflows of modern construction projects relying on visual data. In particular, cameras are used for monitoring progress and construction resource activities, and Building Information Modelling (BIM) models are used to digitally represent …
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Measuring Safety Attitude Differences in the Construction Supply Chain
Construction worker safety is normally a construction activity in the United States, even though there is an emerging body of literature discussing the positive effects of considering safety earlier in the construction lifecycle. This literature has discussed the fragmentation in terms of safety …
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The Behaviour of Plank (Tongue and Groove) Wood Decking Under the Effects of Uniformly Distributed and Concentrated Loads
… that is commonly used in post and beam timber construction to transfer gravity loads on roofs and floors. In 2010, The National Building Code of Canada changed the application area of the specified concentrated roof live loads from 750 mm x 750 mm to 200 mm x 200 mm. The change was made to …
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Evaluating the impact of innovative cyber technologies on the delivery process of South African sustainable affordable housing
… enhance housing delivery by monitoring construction, ensuring the site is built on schedule and correctly, and monitoring construction worker productivity. However, the study also identified high costs and limited social acceptance as major challenges. To address these issues, the study …
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Semantic and spatio-temporal understanding for computer vision driven worker safety inspection and risk analysis
… of efforts, we are still far from eliminating construction safety risks. Recently, computer vision techniques have been applied for construction safety management on real-world residential and commercial projects; they have shown the potential to fundamentally change safety management practices …
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The impact of compensation on public sector construction workers in Jigawa state of Nigeria
Compensation is the remuneration which workers receive for their services or contributions to the organisation. The literature reviewed showed that compensation packages have relationship with workers’ motivation, job satisfaction, attraction and retention. On this basis, this study established a …