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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"construction industry institute"”.
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Measuring the Effects of a Step Change in the EPC Process
… This research was done as part of a Construction Industry Institute sponsored project to develop and quantify a step change to the EPC process that will bring the supplier into the circle of cooperation between the owner, engineer, and contractor. The result was a step change entitled …
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Opportunities for pre-project planning improvement within NAVFAC
… practices and effectiveness for a variety of construction projects completed by Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC). Data were collected from the CII database and from surveys sent to NAVFAC offices around the world. This thesis endeavors to measure historical NAVFAC pre-project …
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Use of Team Building on Construction Projects to Reduce Cost Growth and Schedule Growth
… The Army Corp of Engineers, Project Management Institute, and Construction Industry Institute studies provided the foundation for this research. Cost growth and schedule growth are two areas that were suspected to be improved by the use of team building. A thorough statistical and graphical …
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Discriminant function analysis for categorization of best practices
… resulting in a consensus of opinion in the industry that implementation of certain practices leads to improvement. Yet there have been no definitive studies reporting in a quantitative manner, the impact of best practices on different project objectives. This research seeks to suggest …
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Extension of activity analysis methodology to maintenance, shutdown, and turnarounds in petrochemical facilities
Studies show that construction productivity has been stagnant for decades. Interestingly, other industries like manufacturing, automobile and agriculture have witnessed a steep increase in productivity, nearly twice, over the same period of time. It has been the norm for many continuous improvement …
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Quality management and rework in the construction industry
Rework is an insidious problem in the construction industry. According to the Construction Industry Institute (CII) Source Document 29, the cost of rework is 12.4% of the total project cost. However, these costs are just the tip of the iceberg, because they do not represent schedule delays, …
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Safety Benchmarking of Industrial Construction Projects Based on Zero Accidents Techniques
Safety is a continually significant issue in the construction industry. The Occupation Safety and Health Administration as well as individual construction companies are constantly working on verifying that their selected safety plans have a positive effect on reduction of workplace injuries. Worker …
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Measuring progress and defining productivity in model-based engineering
… on their modeling programs. Although the industry is adjusting to a data-rich model-driven approach to engineering, there are no established and standardized processes for measuring progress and productivity of a model-driven engineering process; particularly, when the deliverable type, …