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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"construction phase"”.
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A comparative evaluation of two alternative access routes, the Least Cost Alternative Route (LCAR) and the Western Access Route (WAR), for the Mohale Dam construction, phase 1B, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
… Development Authority) 1000 is the design and construction of the supporting infrastructure for the Mohale Dam, Phase lB of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). The Environmental Evaluation Unit (EEU) of the University of Cape Town (UCT) was employed by GBJV (Gibbs-Bergman Joint …
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An Investigation of Change to Key Provisions in the AIA A201 and its Impact on Perceptions of the Value-added Benefit of the Design Professional during Construction
… a very important role in the dynamics of the construction phase. The general conditions of contract outline the roles, rights, and obligations of the contracting parties during the construction phase of a project. The American Institute of Architects General Conditions of Contract for …
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Quantitative Framework to Evaluate Alternative Dispute Resolution Investments in Architecture Engineering and Construction Projects Using Option and Real Option Theory
… generated from the DRL implementation during the construction phase of a project. The second concept correlates the effect of CCO's on the expected cost savings in a project from a given DRL implementation with exogenous competitive entry and its effect on the gross value of a capital project …
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Quality Control Recommendations for Structural Interventions on Historic Properties
… project, these recommendations are for the first phase of an intervention, the Pre-Construction Phase. To create these recommendations, first a literature review of past and present intervention methods is conducted. After breaking down the Pre-Construction Phase first into a series of steps, and …
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Controlling interfaces : a key to project success
… the responsibility of particular players in the construction phase, rather than to the relations among them and with their environment. Challenging the current belief that "dividing is ruling", this new vision groups problems seemingly different in nature, and provides, from their analysis, a …
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Model-driven management of construction carbon footprint
The construction industry is one of the highest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and there is an increased awareness towards making the industry more sustainable, efficient and environment-friendly. Although there have been significant strides in building energy efficiency through adoption …
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The development of an evaluation tool to assess doctoral research supervision at a South African University
… level of overarching design resulting in a multiphase study - each with its own methodology. The construction included a scoping review to identify existing instruments, an active construction phase and a validation phase. The scoping review underscored the lack of instruments focused on and …
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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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Strategic realignment of the post-contract cost control process in the Nigerian construction industry using kaizen
Small and medium scale construction companies in Nigeria have many challenges such as management of construction works, employee management, competition in the construction industry and financial management of construction projects. New techniques emanating from lean thinking have helped to reduce …
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A model for predicting the performance of project managers in mass house building projects in Ghana
… management (HRM) genre and including the construction management discipline, the identification and development of appropriate performance measures is seen as the only viable means for validating and engendering managerial excellence. There is also a growing awareness that appropriate …
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A Framework for Benchmarking and Monitoring Building Construction Embodied Carbon Footprint using Building Information Models
… LCA assessments have been limited to the design phase of a project delivery or post completion phase. Consequently, it does not help incentivize the choice of suppliers and delivery strategies that minimize the cradle-to-site impacts. Second, majority LCA tools ignore the impact of construction …
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Análise incremental construtiva de edificações
… significance of the consideration of loading and construction sequences in building analysis is the aim of this work. In order to reach this objective a computer program, based on the displacement method, was developed. This program performs the analyses by the conventional procedure and by the …
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Tacit knowledge integration within the traditional construction procurement system
… Tacit knowledge management is more important in construction industry where common issues exist between the design and construction phase. However, most knowledge is embedded in the minds of professions and based on experiences they achieved from project. The successful completion of a project …
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An evaluation of the contextual factors that affect labour productivity in the South African Construction Industry
… productivity is an endemic global problem in the construction industry. In the past two decades, it has been observed over the different sectors of the construction industry that the labour productivity expended on projects has reported a decline, particularly in the building and civil sectors. …
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Lessons Learned in Project Management of Repurposing an Obsolete Facility for Today's Use.
… 50 years old. A 2-part project consisting of a construction phase and transition to operations phase was initiated to accomplish the task. Because funding was done in a piecemeal fashion, the dynamics of restarting the facility was accomplished using creative project management. Lessons learned …
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The Time-Of-Flight detector of ALICE at LHC: construction, test and commissioning with cosmic rays
… required for a large time-of-flight array. The construction and installation of the apparatus in the experimental site have been completed and the detector is presently fully operative. All the steps which led to the construction of the TOF detector were strictly followed by a set of quality …
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Quality management in the public building construction process
… 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. Three …
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Applications of microsimulation traffic data in infrastructure construction projects using 3D/4D CAD models
… which offers potential benefits from planning to construction phase owing to its wide range of capabilities. However, there is no single tool to analyze traffic conditions and changing geometry during construction for reviewing and better decision-making. A methodology to use DTA models as a …
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Cost prediction via quantitative analysis of complexity in U.S. Navy shipbuilding
… complexity-oriented benchmarks in the pre-construction phase of the U.S. Navy's ship acquisition process. This study used commercially-available software such as Mathwork's MATLAB software to analyze the numerical cost data and assess the fidelity of the predictive benchmarks to the …
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Effects of alignment on CO2 emissions from the construction and use phases of highway infrastructure
… activities within all industrial sectors, with construction projects being no exception. The concept of Whole Life Carbon (WLC) involves understanding the carbon impact of an infrastructure project from its beginning, through its serviceable life, to the end of its life. The WLC concept can be …
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