NEW ORGANIZATION FORMS TO IMPROVE THE WORKING LIFE OF CONSTRUCTION SITE MANAGERS

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Schneller
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Postgraduate Education ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Site Managers

The project focuses on the employability of construction site managers since they belong to a much imperiled occupational group. Next to the impairment of health of the individual, the missing work time leads to a huge impact on the economy. Reducing the average missing work time about half a day would increase the annual production about 1.87 billion Euro. On this background the protection of employability and the avoidance of missing work time has to be the goal. The analysis of the current state was performed by different methods, i.e., online surveys, interviewing experts and recording processes on construction sites. The results of the analysis showed that construction managers are happy about their profession and that they like their job. But the results also showed that construction managers wish for a better balance between leisure and working time. A Construction Site Manager’s current working environment is molded by many challenges including: computerization, speedy development of new technology, acceleration, juridification and economization. Based on the survey the Pentagon of construction management was developed with the focus on improvement. Improvement can be in the form of practical aids, tools-such as the qualification matrix or the application for interface analysis and process optimization. Also a new concepts like the assistance of construction management. For which a modular qualification system was settled, which can be used for dual studies, as well as in a form of postgraduate education.

Organising logistics and transport activities in construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 620-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Dubois ◽  
Kajsa Hulthén ◽  
Viktoria Sundquist
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Supply Network ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Enhance Efficiency ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse how different ways of organising transport and logistics activities in construction impact on efficiency. The paper scrutinises three particular transport and logistics configurations: the de-centralised coordinated configuration, the on-site coordinated configuration and the supply network coordinated configuration. Design/methodology/approach Three configurations are derived from the literature and from case studies. The efficiency of the three configurations is analysed on three levels of analysis: the construction site, the supply chain, and across supply chains and construction sites. Findings The paper concludes that there are possibilities to enhance efficiency on all three levels of analysis by widening the scope of coordination beyond the individual construction site. Practical implications The analysis points to efficiency potentials in applying the supply network coordinated configuration, although this configuration puts high demands on collaboration amongst the actors involved. Originality/value The paper provides illustration, and explanation, of the efficiency potentials involved in the three configurations.

scholarly journals Priority setting for competency development training topics for road construction site managers to reduce the risk of construction failure

2018 ◽  
Vol 229 ◽  
pp. 01003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yosritzal ◽  
Purnawan ◽  
Elsa Eka Putri ◽  
Evita Kartika Ratu
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Performance ◽  
System Project ◽  
Site Manager ◽  
Site Managers

Problem in road construction project could be triggered by employing a less competent Site Manager either in terms of knowledge and skills or in attitudes in the project. Therefore, an evaluation of the competency of the Site Managers and seeking the required development training to improve the relatively weaker items of competency is needed. This paper presents an evaluation of the competency of Site Manager of road construction project in the West Sumatera Road Construction Project 2014. The evaluation was conducted using expectation and performance analysis and the evaluated items of competency were extracted from Indonesian Standard of Competency for Labour especially for Site Manager of Road Construction. The study found that construction management system, project administration, and resource procurement are among competency factors that fall under average and should be improved in the future. Therefore, development training on those items could be initiated by the owner to reduce the risk of road construction project failure in the future.

scholarly journals Recommending News in Traditional Media Companies

AI Magazine ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Jon Gulla ◽  
Rolf Svendsen ◽  
Lemei Zhang ◽  
Agnes Stenbom ◽  
Jørgen Frøland
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Online News ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
News Production ◽  
The Individual

The adoption of recommender systems in online news personalization has made it possible to tailor the news stream to the individual interests of each reader. Previous research on commercial recommender systems has emphasized their use in large-scale media houses and technology companies, and real-world experiments indicate substantial improvements of click rates and user satisfaction. It is less understood how smaller media houses are coping with this new technology, how the technology affects their business models, their editorial processes, and their news production in general. Here we report on the experiences from numerous Scandinavian media houses that have experimented with various recommender strategies and streamlined their news production to provide personalized news experiences. In addition to influencing the content and style of news stories and the working environment of journalists, the news recommender systems have been part of a profound digital transformation of the whole media industry. Interestingly, many media houses have found it undesirable to automate the entire recommendation process and look for approaches that combine automatic recommendations with editorial choices.

scholarly journals A Real-Time Safety Helmet Wearing Detection Approach Based on CSYOLOv3

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6732
Author(s):  
Haikuan Wang ◽  
Zhaoyan Hu ◽  
Yuanjun Guo ◽  
Zhile Yang ◽  
Feixiang Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Detection Approach ◽  
Spatial Pyramid Pooling ◽  
Model Training

In the practical scenario of construction sites with extremely complicated working environment and numerous personnel, it is challenging to detect safety helmet wearing (SHW) in real time on the premise of ensuring high precision performance. In this paper, a novel SHW detection model on the basis of improved YOLOv3 (named CSYOLOv3) is presented to heighten the capability of target detection on the construction site. Firstly, the backbone network of darknet53 is improved by applying the cross stage partial network (CSPNet), which reduces the calculation cost and improves the training speed. Secondly, the spatial pyramid pooling (SPP) structure is employed in the YOLOv3 model, and the multi-scale prediction network is improved by combining the top-down and bottom-up feature fusion strategies to realize the feature enhancement. Finally, the safety helmet wearing detection dataset containing 10,000 images is established using the construction site cameras, and the manual annotation is required for the model training. Experimental data and contrastive curves demonstrate that, compared with YOLOv3, the novel method can largely ameliorate mAP by 28% and speed is improved by 6 fps.

scholarly journals Review on Accidents Related to Human Factors at Construction Site

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 154-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Intan Shafinas Mustapa Kamal ◽  
Ismail Nasiruddin Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Izzat Nor Ma’arof
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Depth Study

The construction sector is among the most hazardous industry due to the working environment which exposes workers to high risk of accidents. Statistics by the Malaysian Ministry of Human Resource had shown that the number of mortality and disability cases involving construction workers were the highest among the other sectors. Most of the cases were caused by unidentified hazards around the construction sites. The literature had documented that environmental factors were responsible for most of the cases. This paper aims to highlight on the causation factors of accidents and injuries at the construction sites based on the human factor. Selected journals and research papers related with accidents at construction sites were reviewed and human error was found to be the main causation factor of accidents at construction sites. This study urges for more in depth study on the actions or interventions that could be taken to minimize the occurrence of human error in the construction site, thus, minimizing the occurrence of accidents, injuries and even mortality.

Development of an Industry Test Facility and Qualification Process for ILI Technology Evaluation and Enhancements: Performance Evaluation Phase

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Cazenave ◽  
Ming Gao ◽  
Hans Deeb ◽  
Sean Black
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Technology Evaluation ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Integrity Assessment ◽  
Evaluation Phase ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Pull Tests

The project “Development of an Industry Test Facility and Qualification Processes for in-line inspection (ILI) technology Evaluation and Enhancements” aims to expand knowledge of ILI technology performance and identify gaps where new technology is needed. Additionally, this project also aims to provide ILI technology developers, researchers and pipeline operators a continuing resource for accessing test samples with a range of pipeline integrity threats and vintages; and inline technology test facilities at the Technology Development Center (TDC) of Pipeline Research Council International, Inc. (PRCI), a PRCI managed facility available for future industry and PHMSA research projects. An ILI pull test facility was designed and constructed as part of this project based on industry state-of-the-art and opportunities for capability improvement. The major ILI technology providers, together with pipeline operator team members, reviewed the TDC sample inventory and developed a series of ILI performance tests illustrating one of multiple possible research objectives, culminating in 16-inch and 24-inch nominal diameter test strings. The ILI technology providers proposed appropriate inspection tools based on the types of the integrity threats in the test strings, a series of pull tests of the provided ILI tools were performed, and the technology providers delivered reports of integrity anomaly location and dimensions for performance evaluation. Quantitative measures of detection and sizing performance were confidentially disclosed to the individual ILI technology providers. For instances where ILI predictions were outside of claimed performance, the vendors were given a limited sample of actual defect data to enable re-analysis, thus demonstrating the potential for improved integrity assessment with validation measurements. In this paper, an evaluation of the ILI data obtained from repeated pull-through testing on the 16 and 24-inch pipeline strings at the TDC is performed. The resulting data was aligned, analyzed, and compared to truth data and the findings of the evaluation are presented.

Technologies in older people’s care

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Andersson Marchesoni ◽  
Karin Axelsson ◽  
Ylva Fältholm ◽  
Inger Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Problem Solver ◽  
Good Care ◽  
Next Of Kin ◽  
Caring Relationship

Background: The tension between care-based and technology-based rationalities motivates studies concerning how technology can be used in the care sector to support the relational foundation of care. Objectives: This study interprets values related to care and technologies connected to the practice of good care. Research design: This research study was part of a development project aimed at developing innovative work practices through information and communication technology. Participants and research context: All staff (n = 18) working at two wards in a care facility for older people were asked to participate in interviews, and 12 accepted. We analysed the data using latent content analysis in combination with normative analysis. Ethical considerations: The caregivers were informed that participation was voluntary and that they could drop out at any time without providing any explanation. Findings: Four values were identified: ‘presence’, ‘appreciation’, ‘competence’ and ‘trust’. Caregivers wanted to focus on care receivers as unique persons, a view that they thought was compromised by time-consuming and beeping electronic devices. Appraising from next-of-kin and been seen as someone who can contribute together with knowledge to handle different situations were other desires. The caregivers also desired positive feedback from next-of-kin, as they wanted to be seen as professionals who have the knowledge and skills to handle difficult situations. In addition, the caregivers wanted their employer to trust them, and they wanted to work in a calm environment. Discussion: Caregivers’ desire for disturbance-free interactions, being valued for their skills and working in a trustful working environment were interpreted as their base for providing good care. The caregivers’ arguments are based on caring rationality, and sometimes they felt the technological rationality interfered with their main mission, providing quality care. Conclusion: Introducing new technology in caring should support the caring relationship. Although society’s overall technology-based approach may have gained popularity as a problem solver, technology-based rationality may compromise a care-based rationality. A shift in attitudes towards care as a concept on all societal levels is needed.

The Development of Construction Management System on Architect View in Our Country

2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 3069-3073
Author(s):  
Sheng Hui Chen ◽  
Hui Min Li ◽  
Xin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Site Management ◽  
Credit System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Centralized System

In order to improve construction site management, we make the architect’ position as the starting point for our research ,analyze the similarities and differences between the project manager and the architect and transform the traditional building construction management system from centralized system into flat -like system. Furthermore, we propose that the implementation of the system must be assisted with the construction of credit system and the establishment and implementation of personal practice insurance system.

Computerized Image Enhancement for Visually Impaired Persons: New Technology, New Possibilities

1986 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
pp. 849-854
Author(s):  
E. Pell ◽  
L. E. Arend ◽  
G. T. Timberlake
Keyword(s):  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Visual Degradation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Visually Impaired Persons ◽  
Made In

Patients with age-related visual loss suffer reduced ability to recognize faces and other scenes in photographs and on television. Recently, progress has been made in image enhancement, using controlled distortion of digitally stored images that increases their usefulness in particular applications. Described are two approaches to image enhancement for the visually impaired. In one approach, the visual losses that characterize individual patients and disease classes are described using detailed measurements of visual degradation transfer functions, which are profiles of loss of image information at various spatial scales. The particular distortion used for image enhancement is then adjusted to the impairment of the individual patient or disease class. A second approach takes advantage of the resemblance between the visual losses of many patients and the degradation of picture information in other applications due to external limitations (e.g., fog and haze) on photography. Several enhancement algorithms have been found useful with such images and may also improve picture recognition by the visually impaired.

scholarly journals Characteristic of materials for the 3D printed building constructions by additive printing

2018 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. 01013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pacewicz ◽  
Anna Sobotka ◽  
Łukasz Gołek
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Setting Time ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Printing Technology ◽  
Three Dimensional Printing ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Dimensional Printing

Three dimensional printing is a promising new technology to erect construction objects. Around the world in every moment a new prototypes constructions are made by using this method. Three dimensional printing is taken into account as technology which can be used to print constructions in automated way on the Moon or Mars. The raw materials, which can be used with three dimensional printing have to fulfil basic requirements for those which are used in construction. That means that components of printing mortars are made from ingredients easily accessible in area nearby construction site and can be reusable. The cost of printing building objects due to that requirements is comparable to costs of traditional building, which are currently available. However additive techniques of printing needs a dedicated mortars for printer supplying. Characteristic for such mortars is: setting time, compressive strength, followability in the printing system, shape stability of every printed layer, controlling the hydration rate to ensure bonding with the subsequent layer, reusable capabilities, easily accessible raw materials, cost of such mixtures shouldn’t be too high in order to keep 3D printing competitive for traditional ways of building, mortar components should be recyclable and printing process should not influence negatively on an environment and people. All properties of printing mortars are determined by the device for additive application method. In this paper review of available materials used for three dimensional printing technology at construction site is presented. Presented materials were analysed in terms of requirements for building materials technology. Due to the lack of detailed information’s in available literature, regarding to the properties of raw materials, the results of this analysis may be used in the designing of new concrete mixtures for the use in three-dimensional printing technology for construction.

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