scholarly journals Personnel management in the building industry

2014 ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Filip Bušina
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Variable Environment ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Management Efficiency ◽  
The Difference

The aim of the text is to present various approaches towards personnel management in the building industry. The difference in the analysed approaches is partially caused by the fact that sectors within building industry also differ substantially. The paper is divided into five sections dealing among others with personnel management and its efficiency, tools used to measure and improve personnel management efficiency and characteristics of specific problems of personnel management. The principle methods of inquiry used in the text include literature study and case study. The author stresses the fact that construction industry is demanding in terms of personnel management, as it has to deal with special requirements stemming from employment area, including: the seasonal nature of the building works, spasmodic nature of works on individual projects, required qualification of workers in the building industry, building technology and system operations. The author concludes that due to constantly changing environment the building industry uses flexible personnel work systems and that the challenge is to adapt the personnel management system efficiency to the variable environment and make the building industry personnel management flexible.

scholarly journals Interpreting Traditional Cost Contingency Methods in the Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Donn ◽  
Alexis Dykman ◽  
Nilesh Bakshi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Simulation Methods ◽  
Journal Paper

This research investigates how contingency is currently calculated in project budgets within the building industry. This is an important aspect to consider as a large proportion of construction projects are significantly over-budget. The study presents three non-simulation methods and one simulation method for calculating cost contingency following the results of a forthcoming journal paper. These methods are applied against a case study project in attempt to highlight the most reliable method, and to create a methodology that will be useful to the industry. This paper identifies that the traditional fixed percentage approach is not sufficient and suggests that this could be one of the main reasons why construction projects are over budget. While it is unclear which method is the most reliable, this study provides a focus for future research into reliability and utilisation of contingency methods in the building industry. The research demonstrates that current practice needs to change to reduce the large number of construction projects that run over budget.

scholarly journals Relying on reference cases when evaluating new technical solutions? Evaluation of technical documentation in a case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 10007
Author(s):  
Charlotte Svensson Tengberg ◽  
Carl-Eric Hagentoft
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Timber Structures ◽  
Technical Documentation ◽  
High Confidence ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
Hygrothermal Performance ◽  
Building Physics ◽  
Technical Solutions

Serial failures have occurred when introducing new technical solutions in the Swedish construction industry. In an earlier interview study exploring introduction of new technical solutions, documentation and reference cases provided by the supplier are given as the main sources for evaluation. This paper aims at addressing the questions: 1. What kind of documentation concerning building physics are provided by suppliers? 2. How well does the suppliers’ documentation meet the need for verification? In order to address these questions, the case of hygrothermal performance of cross laminated timber structures in multifamily dwellings was chosen. An inquiry of data was sent out to four suppliers at the Swedish market, asking for documentation and reference cases provided. Based on the documentation given, an assessment was made of to which extend the documentation can support verification of appliance to the relevant requirements of the Swedish building regulations. The case study shows reference cases are scarce and existing documentation is not comprehensive, thus indicating the building industry might have a disproportional high confidence in reference cases. The results will be used to suggest requirements for reference cases to be used for verification.

scholarly journals Interpreting Traditional Cost Contingency Methods in the Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Donn ◽  
Alexis Dykman ◽  
Nilesh Bakshi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Simulation Method ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Simulation Methods ◽  
Journal Paper

This research investigates how contingency is currently calculated in project budgets within the building industry. This is an important aspect to consider as a large proportion of construction projects are significantly over-budget. The study presents three non-simulation methods and one simulation method for calculating cost contingency following the results of a forthcoming journal paper. These methods are applied against a case study project in attempt to highlight the most reliable method, and to create a methodology that will be useful to the industry. This paper identifies that the traditional fixed percentage approach is not sufficient and suggests that this could be one of the main reasons why construction projects are over budget. While it is unclear which method is the most reliable, this study provides a focus for future research into reliability and utilisation of contingency methods in the building industry. The research demonstrates that current practice needs to change to reduce the large number of construction projects that run over budget.

A discussion on building technology in the 1980s - The inherent problems of effecting change

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1229) ◽  
pp. 497-502
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Second World

When I started work in the building industry in the middle ’30s my mother, who having been married to a contractor for many years thought she knew a lot about the industry, advised me on the following lines: ‘Maurice, you are going into an old-fashioned, dirty and hard industry, which as far as I can see has made no progress since the time of the Pharaohs when the children of Israel made bricks. Do your best to make it a modern and respected industry. ? There have been very considerable changes since that time, especially in the civil engineering field where in some spheres today, aided by massive amounts of machinery, we use only one-tenth of the site labour that we did when I was a boy. But, for a variety of reasons, on the building side of construction, the rate of change has been much less marked, and progress has been much slower than I would have hoped, and it is still a labour intensive industry. At the end of the Second World War when I became seriously involved in the management of what was in the process of becoming one of the major construction companies of this country, I saw the possibilities of great change, and I have spent a large portion of the intervening quarter-century in endeavouring to effect that potential change; but it has been much slower than it could have been - indeed much slower than I think it should have been. The problems of effecting change on the building side of the construction industry are not just those of Britain, but are virtually world wide. As confirmed by the words of H. B. Finger’s summary where he says: ‘ ...the structure of the housing business, the existing institutions, the regulatory procedures and other factors have discouraged rather than encouraged modernization and improvement consistent with our overall technological, social, economic and political progress.’

scholarly journals Understanding the Use of Timber in Semi-Arid Regions: Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11845
Author(s):  
Mohanad Yaseen Abdulwahid ◽  
Isaac Galobardes ◽  
Hassan Radoine
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Timber Products ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
Timber Product

The use of timber in the building industry has expanded in many countries over the last 20 years due mainly to its light weight, low adverse impact to the environment, and fair mechanical properties. Despite the development of the construction industry in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI) in recent years, timber product utilization is still very limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of further utilizing timber-based products in the building industry in semi-arid regions using the KRI as a case study. A review of timber product utilization in the region was conducted first and the general properties of timber products were followed. Based on this, a survey focusing on the current situation and suitability of localized grown timber products was carried out to study the feasibility. This article concludes that the use of timber-based products in the KRI presents different barriers, with the availability in the market and technicality of construction with the material being the strongest ones. The article recommends that it is imperative to further research how to promote timber’s utilization in the KRI to be in line with sustainable development.

scholarly journals СУЧАСНІ ПІДХОДИ ДО УПРАВЛІННЯ ПЕРСОНАЛОМ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ БУДІВЕЛЬНОЇ ГАЛУЗІ

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
Maksym Zabashtanskyi ◽  
Andrii Rogovyi ◽  
Svitlana Shulha
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
The State ◽  
Building Industry ◽  
Personnel Policy ◽  
Effective Functioning

In the article the modern approaches to personnel management at the enterprises of the building industry are investigated, their influence on maintenance of efficiency and uninterrupted functioning of it is determined. A direct relationship was established between the state of the national economy, the level of society and the dynamism of the process of renovation of the housing stock in the country. The necessity of changing existing approaches to personnel management at the enterprises of the building industry is grounded in the part of the transformation of the components of its material and immaterial stimulation. The main obstacles to the effective functioning of the construction industry are determined and the list of measures for their leveling is formed. The proposed stages of the development of personnel policy of the subjects of management of the construction industry. Provided suggestions on improving the efficiency of personnel management at the enterprises of the construction industry by improving their personnel policy.

Critical barriers to augmented reality technology adoption in developing countries: a case study of Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke ◽  
Victor Adetunji Arowoiya
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Augmented Reality Technology ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Set Up

Purpose The paper aims to identify the critical barriers to augmented reality technology (ART) in the Nigerian construction industry to allow wider adoption. The objectives are to reveal those hindrances to the wider usage of ART so that the obstacles can be tackled and overcome. Design/methodology/approach A survey of construction professionals involved in the built environment was sent well-structured questionnaires in the study area. The professionals involved are quantity surveyors, architects, engineers, project managers and builders. Convenience sampling techniques were used in selecting those professionals. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in analyzing the retrieved data. Findings The most ranked obstacles in adopting augmented realities are lack of technological awareness, difficulty in ease of ART system set up, the unwillingness of government and private bodies to invest in augmented reality research, lack of repository database, lack of portability for ART equipment system. The findings also revealed the difference in the opinions of professionals among the variables. The results showed that there is a significant difference in the opinions of respondents regarding 6 of the identified 15 variables. Originality/value The study gives deep insight into possible hindrances in the use of emerging technologies such as ART in construction. This study also enumerated some ways how these challenges can be tackled and solved in the Nigerian construction industry for better adoption and performance.

Implementasi Sistem Informasi Monitoring Pengolahan Data Inventory Gudang Pada PT.Talaga Mulya Indah

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Nurlaila Suci Rahayu Rais ◽  
Dedeh Apriyani ◽  
Gito Gardjito
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Integrated Control ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Inventory Data ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

Monitoring of warehouse inventory data processing is an important thing for companies. PT Talaga mulya indah is still manual using paper media, causing problems that have an effect on existing information, namely: problems with data processing of incoming and outgoing goods. And the difference between data on the amount of stock of goods available with physical data, often occurs inputting data more than once for the same item, searching for available data, and making reports so that it impedes companies in monitoring inventory of existing stock of goods. Which aims to create a system that can provide updated information to facilitate the warehouse admin in making inventory reports, and reduce errors in input by means of integrated control. In this study, the authors used the data collection method used in this analysis using the method of observation, interviews, and literature review (literature study). For analysis using the PIECES analysis method. Furthermore, the system design used is UML (Unified Modeling Language). The results of this study are expected to produce the right data in the process of monitoring inventory data processing, also can provide the right information and make it easier to control the overall availability of goods.

Implementation of Regulation of The Minister of Kominfo Number 20 2016 in Disdukcapil Sleman, Temanggung, and Gianyar District

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nfn Darmanto ◽  
Nur Zaini
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
Edwards Model ◽  
District Government ◽  
The Government ◽  
Study Techniques

AbstrakPenelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh menguatnya wacana mengenai pentingnya perlindungan data pribadi  dan terbitnya Peraturan Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika Nomor 20 Tahun 2016 tentang Perlindungan Data Pribadi dalam Sistem Elektronik. Adapun tujuan penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui kinerja implementasi Peraturan Menteri tersebut di lingkungan Pemerintah Kabupaten. Penelitian  dilakukan di Dinas Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil pada Pemerintah Kabupaten Gianyar, Temanggung, dan Sleman dengan menggunakan metode studi kasus, sedangkan pengum­pu­lan data menggunakan teknik studi pustaka, wawancara, dan observasi. Pembahasan dilakukan dengan menggunakan konsep implemen­tasi model Edwards yang melihat implementasi berdasarkan variabel komunikasi, sumber-sumber, kecenderungan-kecenderu­ngan, dan struk­tur birokrasi. Hasil penelitian menunjuk­kan bahwa penyelenggaraan administrasi kependudukan yang di dalamnya termasuk perlindungan data pribadi oleh Dinas Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil merujuk pada Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri Nomor 61 Tahun 2015, sedangkan Peraturan Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika Nomor 20 tahun 2016 sama sekali belum mereka ketahui. AbstractThis research is motivated by the strengthening of discourse regarding the importance of protecting personal data and the issuance of Minister of Communication and Information Regulation No. 20 of 2016 concerning Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Systems. The research objective is to determine the performance of the implementation of the Ministerial Regulation within the District Government. The study was conducted at the Department of Population and Civil Registration at the Government of the Regency of Gianyar, Temanggung, and Sleman by using a case study method, while data collection using literature study techniques, interviews, and observations. The discussion was carried out using the concept of implementation of Edwards model that looked at implementation based on communication variables, sources, trends, and bureaucratic structure. The results showed that the administration of population administration which included the protection of personal data by the Population and Civil Registry Office referred to the Minister of Home Affairs Regulation No. 61 of 2015, while the Minister of Communication and Information Regulation No. 20 of 2016 was completely unknown to them.   

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