scholarly journals Classification of Economic Regions with Regards to Selected Factors Characterizing the Construction Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bożena Hoła ◽  
Tomasz Nowobilski
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Economic Regions

scholarly journals Classification of Economic Regions with Regards to Selected Factors Characterizing the Construction Industry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bożena Hoła ◽  
Tomasz Nowobilski
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
Production Value ◽  
Economic Regions ◽  
Assembly Production

The article presents the methodology for classifying economic regions with regards to selected factors that characterize a region, such as: the economic structure of the region, and thus the share of individual sectors in the economy; employment; the dynamics of the development of individual sectors expressed as an increase or decrease in production value; the population density in the region and also the level of occupational safety. Cluster analysis, which is a method of multidimensional statistical analysis available in Statistica software, was used to solve the task. The proposed methodology was used to group Polish voivodships with regards to the speed of economic development and occupational safety in the construction industry. Data published by the Central Statistical Office was used for this purpose, such as the value of construction and assembly production, the number of people employed in the construction industry, the population of an individual region and the number of people injured in occupational accidents.

Classification of Mason’s Skills by Analysis of Selected Churches of the Broumov Group

2021 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Pavel Kuklík ◽  
Martin Valek ◽  
Charalampos Paschopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Bearing Capacity ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Baroque Architecture ◽  
Current State ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Local Construction

The churches of the Broumov region are renowned for their unique baroque architecture, their distinct shapes, and sizes. They are an integral part of the Czech cultural heritage. If you analyze the churches, it becomes evident that both the local geological conditions and the municipal economic situation have played an important role in their current condition. Moreover, the local construction industry has been significantly affected by historical events. In this article we would like to present the effects of those factors on the current state of selected churches, namely on the bearing capacity of their walls. Besides being very interesting, it also plays a key role in the maintenance and the potential reconstruction of the churches.

scholarly journals Investigating the Relationships between Safety Climate and Safety Performance Indicators in Retrofitting Works

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Alaa Nadhim ◽  
Carol K.H. Hon ◽  
Bo Xia ◽  
Ian Stewart ◽  
Dongping Fang
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Safety Performance ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Relationship

Retrofitting works has become increasingly important in the construction industry, as it plays an effective role in providing solutions to maintain, upgrade or change the functions to the existing or aged buildings. Very often, safety issues of retrofitting works are underestimated because there may be unreported accidents in small projects and there is no separate classification of accident statistics for the retrofitting works within the construction industry. As safety climate is widely regarded as a contributing factor to safety performance, the aim of this research was to examine the relationship between safety climate and safety performance in retrofitting works context. The safety climate questionnaire NOSACQ-50 has been employed to measure safety climate in retrofitting works. Field patrols were undertaken to distribute the safety questionnaires to the local worksites that undertake retrofits in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 264 valid questionnaires were collected. SEM was employed to examine the existence and strength of the relationship between safety climate and safety performance. PLS-SEM was utilised to estimate the parameters of the structural model. The model has exposed a positive relationship between safety climate and safety performance in retrofitting context. This research was the first to examine the relationship between the second order latent variables. A positive relationship (0.60 with 36 percent of explained variance) was found between safety climate and safety performance.

CLASSIFICATION OF CLAIM-CAUSING EVENTS ACCORDING TO THEIR COMPLEXITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Müller ◽  
Daniel Wenzl ◽  
Detlef Heck
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Secondary Task ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
Single Event ◽  
Know How ◽  
External Consultants ◽  
Do So ◽  
Site Managers

The increasing complexity of construction projects has inevitably led to site managers are facing ever more complex claims. As a result, they are increasingly occupied with claim management. Their primary task, however, is to carry out the project and claim management is considered a secondary task. Furthermore, site managers often lack both the know-how and the resources required for handling complex claims. Attaining a successful outcome for a claim, demands stringent causal evidence for each single event linked to its effects. This makes documentation and quantification of a complex claim exceptionally difficult. Site managers tend to underestimate the complexity of a claim-causing event and as a consequence may often be too late in notifying internal company experts or external consultants focusing on claim management. This paper aims to categorize deviations causing a claim according to its complexity at the time of its occurrence. To do so, a quantitative survey was handed out to site managers in the Austrian construction industry. Based on the findings, the authors designed a decision-making matrix to classify claim-causing events according to their complexity. This will allow site managers to take necessary measures processing a claim and mitigate possible disputes.

scholarly journals Classification of Polish voivodeships with regards to the accident rate in the construction industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 04007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Nowobilski ◽  
Irena Bagińska ◽  
Krzysztof Gawron
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Accident Rate ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
And Cluster Analysis

The article classifies Polish voivodeships into appropriate groups with a similar level of occupational safety in the construction industry. The basis for the adopted classification was statistical data published by the Central Statistical Office regarding population, employment in the construction industry, the value of construction production and the number of occupational accidents. The conducted research allowed a logical and correct, in terms of content, division of the Polish territory to be made, taking into account the aspect of occupational safety in the construction industry. Statistica software and cluster analysis were used to solve the problem.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Documentation System in Iraqi Construction Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Hamsa R. Majeed ◽  
Wadhah A. Hatem ◽  
Nidal A. Jasem
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Paper Documentation ◽  
Cloud Applications ◽  
Auto Cad

In Iraq, the construction industry is considered one of the main sectors that contribute strongly to the Iraqi economy. Documentation is a process of collecting documents from past and current works of corporations, then archiving and classification of information to become easy and useful for reuse in the future. The aim of this study is to investigate the reality of documentation in the Iraqi construction industry and how to improve archiving and classification of documents and how documentation can be useful used in contractor and consultant corporations. This research has been conducted through literature reviews followed by a field survey. 80 questionnaires were distributed to contractors and engineering offices. 70 useful questionnaires were received from respondents with an 87% response rate. The findings indicated that the construction projects in the Diyala governorate are applying documentation. The study found that foundations classified and updating the documents as printed and written files and computer files, but foundations lack computer programs and web models for easy archiving and discovery of documents, documentation system currently used doesn't prevent Confusing, conflict in schemas because they still used Auto CAD and paper documentation.  The large number and accumulation of paper documents are also considered the most often problem in the documentation system currently used, and construction projects don't have a database for all information related to projects where, it is limited to cabinets full of paper documents, which causes a waste of time and effort when searching for any document or information related to the projects. The study recommended that companies and foundations have to increase cost and effort consumed in the documentation process, improve the owner and staff abilities in computer and web applications, assign a key person for collection and archiving project documents, establishing an internet website for companies, or using cloud applications for storage of documents and sharing information.

scholarly journals Experience in the classification of innovative construction technologies in digital format

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Alexander Dmitriev ◽  
Ildar Mustafin
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Rapid Pace

This article deals with the problem of the digital revolution, which in recent decades has led to the rapid pace of innovation not only in the global industrial sector, but also in science, medicine, education and other areas of human activity, providing them with a significant increase in productivity, profitability, labor productivity, and safety for the environment. However, this has hardly affected the construction industry, which has not undergone significant changes over the past 50 years. This article reveals the content of the main reason for the extremely slow pace of innovative processes in construction, due to its global scale and decentralized nature. The construction industry accounts for approximately 6 % of global GDP (and for developing countries it reaches 8 % of GDP) and continues to grow. Special attention is paid to the fact that construction is the largest consumer of resources, which annually uses about 50 % of the total volume of steel produced and more than 3 billion tons of raw materials. Therefore, any innovation that leads, for example, to increased productivity in construction, on a global scale could save $100 billion a year. Also, this paper shows the factors that make construction a difficult business, which is not amenable to the necessary transformations. The article presents the basic principles of building an automated information support system.

scholarly journals Construction processes of roof structures: a systematic review

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 0520-0527
Author(s):  
Thaisa Lana Pilz ◽  
Mayara Scheuer ◽  
Marcell Mariano Corrêa Maceno ◽  
Thalyta Genaro ◽  
Nicolle Christine Sotsek
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Quality Tool ◽  
Selection Of

Despite the fact that the construction industry in Brazil is traditionally recognized for the use of craft construction techniques, in the last few years, there has been a growth in the search for new materials, processes, and technologies for this segment.  This is mainly due to the great environmental impact that this sector causes. Based on this context, this article aimed to map the constructive processes of existing roofs in the literature, to raise its advantages, disadvantages and previous cases. To achieve this aim, the systematic review method based on three phases –  research questions, selection of documents and classification of selected documents, and the 5W2H quality tool were used. Thus, this research could contribute to the literature on this topic, as well as encourage the idealization of new ideas of roof construction processes.

scholarly journals Assessment of Causes and Effects of Variation on Construction Project Performance in South West Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 629-641
Author(s):  
Esan Martins Taiwo ◽  
Folaranmi Kazeem Adekunle ◽  
Hassan H ◽  
Buari T. A
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
South West ◽  
Training Professionals ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Proactive Measures

The construction industry in Nigeria faces many problems, including the delay due to variations in project execution. This delay has been studied as a major setback in the Nigerian construction industry. In Nigeria, the construction industry's performance in terms of time has been observed to be poor. The objective of this study is to examine the variation of the construction project in order to determine the effect on the delivery of the project. The maximum performance of the project would be reached if the work always goes efficiently on time with the budget. The result of the variation is delay, cost overruns, quality defects and other negative impacts. The causes of variation were identified by a questionnaire survey for two higher education institutions. The results of the study identified the five main factors, including change of plan or scope, defective labour, customers' financial problems, unavailability of skills and desired profitability of the entrepreneur. In general, the study shows agreement among clients, consultants and contractors regarding the classification of the 20 factors that cause the variation. The results also reveal that factors related to clients are the main causes of variation, followed by factors related to contractors. An understanding of the causes and effects of the variation would be helpful in training professionals to assess the variation. In addition, the study would also help professionals take proactive measures to reduce the gaps on construction projects.

scholarly journals Analysis of theoretical and methodical approaches to the definition of state regulation mechanisms in the field of construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Ю. Г. Прав
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Regulation Mechanism ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
State Management ◽  
Regulation Mechanisms ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to questions of theoretical and methodological provision of state regulation ofeconomic systems, in particular the construction industry. The article presents the theoretical definition ofthe category of state regulation mechanism as the main structural element of this system. The analysis ofmechanisms of state regulation is carried out, the results of which are proposed classification of mechanismsof state regulation by the nature of their influence on the object of public administration. The analysis oftheoretical approaches to the definition of the concept of the state regulation mechanism gave the opportunityto develop a system of grouping these approaches, to identify their advantages and disadvantages and toformulate the author's definition of the concept of state regulation of the construction industry based on theachievements of the representatives of the system approach.The classification of mechanisms of state regulation has been carried out, which showed that themain means of influence on the object of state management can be accumulated in the following blocks:regulatory, organizational, economic, informational and tax. These are the components of the state'sregulatory policy aimed at streamlining economic activity, in particular in the field of construction. In theanalysis of theoretical and methodological approaches to the definition of the category of state regulation,three groups of these approaches are distinguished: structural, defining the components of state regulation,functional, describing the category from the point of view of those functions that it has to execute, and thesystem that reflects the complexity of the concept state regulation.

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