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Showing 1 to 20 of 262 for “"building construction"”.
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Accident causation model for building construction sites
Construction safety at Malaysian building and construction project sites is of utmost importance due to the nature of the construction industry. Workplace safety is a care consideration for all types of organizations or stakeholders. However, statistics shows that safety at project sites is not …
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Settlement Due to Building Construction in Chicago
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:36:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0015228.pdf: 47969417 bytes, checksum: 4bc828e65e038d050fa9083caf7e68e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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Quality management in the public building construction process
The poor quality of public buildings in the Botswana construction industry has been surrounded by controversy and strongly held opinions. The work reported here attempts to indicate some salient issues affecting the quality management system, with particular reference to the construction phase. …
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Learning styles and academic achievement among building construction students
… on cognitive mastery and vocational elements in Building Construction Subject (BCS) involving the students and teachers of Building Construction Course (BCC) from three secondary vocational schools in Johor. Descriptive case study was applied with quantitative and semi-structured interview as …
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LIGHTWEIGHT AND ADVANCE PRECAST CONCRETE SYSTEM FOR MODULAR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
… proposes a new cruciform module design for the construction of buildings with wider column-to-column such as the Healthcare and Institutional Buildings with the use of lightweight concrete. Based on the finite element analysis (FEA) of two buildings with similar configurations and global aspect …
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Engineering Drawing Segmentation and Understanding For Building Construction Digital Twins
<p>Many legacy buildings lack Building Information Models (BIMs), even though they have detailed engineering drawings that contain essential mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) components and structural components. Converting these drawings into BIM models remains a largely manual process, which …
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Social control of technological innovations: the regulation of building construction.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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The development of unfired clay building materials for sustainable building construction
… a growing pressure on energy efficiency for new buildings in the UK and worldwide. This has arisen partly due to the increasing awareness of the public for sustainable building construction. In addition, there is pressure on building materials manufacturers, due to new government regulations and …
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Time and cost overruns on high-rise building construction in Bangladesh
Construction projects in developing countries may suffer from time overruns, which are associated with cost overruns. This research project investigated both time and cost overruns on high-rise building projects in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Surprisingly, preliminary data analysis showed negligible cost …
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The Determination of Negotiated Wage Change in The Building Construction Industry
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Low-income housing : alternative strategies for building construction and project control
… before self-help methods. can be realized construction techniques have to be simplified. This thesis proposes an alternate construction method which promises to simplify some of the building tasks in construction of low-rise dwellings, and hopes to reduce the overall material costs in …
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Present and future uses of aluminum and magnesium in building construction
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of General Engineering, 1954
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Robust control of cost impact on fast-tracking building construction projects
… manner. A closer observation of the design and construction process reveals that all of the cost-increasing factors in fast-tracking are directly or indirectly related to non value-adding or corrective changes. These changes are mainly attributed to uncertainty that is rooted in the …
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Inter-firm collaboration in the implementation of structural innovations in building construction
… often necessitate changes in other areas. In the construction industry, the problem is not merely one of interdisciplinary collaboration within a vertically integrated firm, but one of inter-firm collaboration over the life of a project because dozens of specialized firms typically work together …
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Identifying the Economic Barriers to CLT Cost Estimation Among Building Construction Professionals
… (CLTs) are strong and lightweight structural building materials. CLTs are made from renewable wood resources and have significant economic potential as a new value-added product for the United States. However, market penetration has been obstructed by product affordability and lack of …
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Measures for mitigating the delay in high-rise building construction projects in Dubai
Construction industry faces several challenges such as low labour productivity, cost overrun, time overrun, and extreme weather condition. Globally, the most severe challenge is project delay, particularly in Dubai where the construction industry is booming rapidly than other parts of the world, …
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Efficient water management in building: an approach to promote sustainable building construction in India.
… water (EW) studies globally. The EW of a building is the sum of the amount of water needed to manufacture all the building materials throughout their supply chain (indirect embodied water (IEW)), plus the amount of water needed for the building construction (direct embodied water (DEW)). …
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Research on the application of concrete/steel panels in a composite building construction system
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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A composite structural system of steel-edged concrete panels in the industrialized building construction
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
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