scholarly journals Beyond expertise: the public construction of legitimacy for EU agencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trym Nohr Fjørtoft ◽  
Asimina Michailidou
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Public Construction

Application of BIM on Quantity Estimate for Reinforced Concrete

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2402-2405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Mei Cheng ◽  
Jyun Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Unit Price ◽  
Price Difference ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Construction ◽  
Public Construction ◽  
Senior Engineer

The focus of this study is on the differences in quantity estimates made by BIM and a senior engineer using conventional method for materials needed during construction. BIM-Revit Architecture 2012 is utilized to establish the information for two actual cases the control room for a new construction and a single floor on a school campus to conduct estimates for the amount of reinforced concrete needed. For comparison, an engineer with considerable experience is also asked to perform the above estimate. Data from the two estimates are compared and the unit price obtained from the Public Construction Commission is applied to calculate the price difference. The result shows that in Case 1, the engineers estimate is higher than that of BIM by 1.33%, while in Case 2, the engineers estimate is higher than that of BIM by 0.30%. The results indicate that estimates made by BIM have high accuracy. Thus, applying BIM toward the construction industry may effectively reduce human errors such as omissions and miscalculations.

scholarly journals The Amoebic Growth of Project Costs

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Eden ◽  
Fran Ackermann ◽  
Terry Williams
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Total Expenditure ◽  
Claims Analysis ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Project Costs ◽  
Industrial Projects ◽  
Public Construction

In the public arena, we often hear about projects that have suffered massive cost overruns. Often they are related to large public construction projects such as airports, bridges, or public buildings. Large overruns also exist in private industry. However, often these do not appear in the newspapers, so the public is not as aware of them. Of course, not all projects go badly wrong, but quite a few do, and frequently we find ourselves uncertain of the causes for such overruns. In this paper, industrial projects that overrun and overrun in a surprising manner are considered. In other words, the paper considers those many projects where the extent of the overrun is well beyond what might ever have been anticipated, even though what was going wrong within the projects was, for the most part, understood. The basis for the content of the paper (that is, the structure and lessons), are drawn from a postmortem analysis of many large projects as part of claims analysis, particularly “delay and disruption” claims for projects whose total expenditure appeared, at first look, inexplicable or surprising. The aim of the paper is to contribute to an understanding of how projects go badly wrong, when they do, and in particular to draw some lessons from this exploration that are likely to help all managers. The reasons for cost escalation are not just the responsibility of project managers.

THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION PROCESS, STIPULATED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Ilga Krampuža
Keyword(s):  
Construction Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Constitutional Level ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Construction

In the construction process, many interests come in conflict, which can be contradictory to each other. Conditionally, these interests can be divided into two groups, first of all, neighbours’ interests, mainly attributable to the private laws, secondly, the public or general interests, which are mainly related with the right to a benevolent environment. The above mentioned interests shall be reconciled, based on the basic rights, consolidated in the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia, which, in general, ensure a person's involvement in the public construction process at the constitutional level.

The dynamic capabilities of public construction clients in the healthcare sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abderisak Adam ◽  
Göran Lindahl ◽  
Roine Leiringer
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Innovation ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Feedback Questionnaire ◽  
Public Construction ◽  
Planning And Construction

Purpose Previous research within the dynamic capabilities literature has primarily targeted the strategic innovation of technology firms and significantly less interest has been given to project-based organizations that operate in the construction sector. A recent study by Davies and Brady (2016) places the dynamic capabilities concept in a project-based context, drawing upon research on dynamic capabilities and organizational ambidexterity. The purpose of this paper is to apply the aforementioned framework in a case involving public construction clients with the aim of examining their approaches for maintaining or developing project capabilities depending on the volatility of the environment. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on a case study of a decentralized association of 16 healthcare client organizations in Swedish counties, which was compared to a centralized unit for healthcare planning and construction in Norway. In total, 19 interviews were conducted, alongside two workshops and a feedback questionnaire. Findings The interviewees emphasized the lack of adequate support to handle the increasingly more complex projects. Results indicate the need for a more segmented approach for understanding how dynamic capabilities are managed in client organizations based not merely on the level of stability in the environment, but also taking into account the resources that are utilized. It is further argued that there is a need for a more granular research approach to studying the development of capabilities in a case-based setting, an approach that more specifically links the development of dynamic capabilities with their relevant antecedent activities. Originality/value The study sheds light on how the various approaches for maintaining/developing project capabilities available to the public sector construction client depend on the volatility of the environment and the resources they require.

The Critical Dictionary and the Wiki World

English Today ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Adams
Keyword(s):  
Web Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Construction ◽  
The Web ◽  
Do So

ABSTRACTA new utopian lexicography – online? Today, dictionary users are Web users: they imagine that a static paper text is necessarily less richly informative than a hyperlinked megatext. They expect to move among texts as interest and curiosity direct, not to be constrained by linear, editorially directed matter of the old-fashioned kind. The nodes of an infinite hyperlinked search may map a universe of small, classically organized texts, but those who travel the Web for information and ideas expect to click around on impulse. Further, they often expect to participate in the public construction of know-ledge, contributing and editing Web content whenever they feel competent to do so. They are hyper-Romantics who have conflated their imaginations and the scapes of human know-ledge into a hypertextual hyperuniverse. Future dictionaries of English should acknowledge these new user inclinations to the extent compatible with the highest lexicographical standards. These ideas are discussed further.

scholarly journals ACS: Construction Data Auto-Correction System—Taiwan Public Construction Data Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Meng-Lin Yu ◽  
Meng-Han Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Operation Time ◽  
Data Management System ◽  
System Operation ◽  
Automatic Data ◽  
Data Correction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Construction ◽  
Correction System

This study aims to develop an automatic data correction system for correcting the public construction data. The unstructured nature of the construction data presents challenges for its management. The different user habits, time-consuming system operation, and long pretraining time all make the data management system full of data in an inconsistent format or even incorrect data. Processing the construction data into a machine-readable format is not only time-consuming but also labor-intensive. Therefore, this study used Taiwan’s public construction data as an example case to develop a natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning-based text classification system, coined as automatic correction system (ACS). The developed system is designed to automatically correct the public construction data, meanwhile improving the efficiency of manual data correction. The ACS has two main features: data correction that converts unstructured data into structured data; a recommendation function that provides users with a recommendation list for manual data correction. For implementation, the developed system was used to correct the data in the public construction cost estimation system (PCCES) in Taiwan. We expect that the ACS can improve the accuracy of the data in the public construction database to increase the efficiency of the practitioners in executing projects. The results show that the system can correct 18,511 data points with an accuracy of 76%. Additionally, the system was also validated to reduce the system operation time by 51.69%.

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