scholarly journals POINTS TO BE NOTED WHILE DOING DPR FOR HILLY TERRAIN ROAD PROJECT - CASE STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. N. S. P. Kamaraju
Keyword(s):  
Hilly Terrain ◽  
Road Project

Causes of road projects' delays: a case of Blantyre, Malawi

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Duncan John Mwamvani ◽  
Christopher Amoah ◽  
Emma Ayesu-Koranteng
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Road Construction ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Road Projects

PurposeThe study aims to find the causes of road projects implementation delays in Blantyre, one of the four city councils (CCs) in Malawi.Design/methodology/approachThe study followed a qualitative research approach using a Blantyre City Council (BCC) as a case study. This study combined in-depth, face-to-face interviews with councillors, secretariat staff, consultants, and contractors who worked on the city's road projects. Data gathered were analysed using thematic content analysis. Also, some road project documents were examined.FindingsThe findings from the case study revealed the primary cause of road project construction delays as the shortage of engineers in conducting detailed proposed projects surveys resulting in incomplete project scope definition before contractor's procurement. Other identified factors were service providers delaying the removal of existing public utility infrastructure from project sites, client funding issues, scope changes, and client delays in issuing instructions to the contractors during project implementation. Another factor was the shortage of construction equipment and construction materials experienced by some appointed contractors.Research limitations/implicationsOnly road construction projects and stakeholders operating from Blantyre city, Malawi, were contacted for the study; thus, the findings may not be generalizable.Practical implicationsThere is an urgent need to increase technical employees, especially engineers and other critical technical staff such as quantity surveyors in Blantyre. Employees' conditions of service should be conducive to attract qualified people to undertake effective management and assessment of projects before commencement to identify the feasibility of proposed projects to decrease the rate of road construction project delays.Originality/valueThe study has established Blantyre city's core challenges in implementing its road projects seamlessly and has provided mitigation measures for dealing with the shortcomings.

Computerized corpus keyword approaches to evaluation: A case study of evaluative attitudes of “the Belt and Road” reports in mainstream media of China and America

2020 ◽  
pp. 002072092092330
Author(s):  
Fei Deng
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
News Report ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Concordance Analysis ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

This study is a corpus-driven examination of keywords in the news texts related to China’s Belt and Road project reported by China’s English news media and America’s English news media. Keywords retrieved from corpus are often taken to be markers of “aboutness” in specialized corpus. They may be “a guide to the writer’s evaluative position.” Some of them, when explored in more detail, help to reveal evaluative attitudes. In this study, two corpora (China’s news report corpus and America’s news report corpus) are built and the computer corpus tool AntConc3.4.3 is used to generate keywords of these two corpora respectively for detailed concordance analysis in order to reveal different attitudes toward Belt and Road project held by these two countries’ news media. The findings demonstrate that China’s news reports emphasize mutual benefit and reciprocity among the parties involved; while America’s news reports emphasize America’s worry about China’s development because they claim that China poses a threat to America’s national status and interests. This study can help readers understand different news media’ attitudes toward the Belt and Road project and help them think in a critical way while they read news reports of the same topic produced by different news media.

scholarly journals Quantifying Delay Risk Potential of Road Projects during Construction Phase: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 05009
Author(s):  
Devi Anggraini ◽  
Jati Utomo Dwi Hatmoko ◽  
Mudjiastuti Handajani
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Project Completion ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Completion Date ◽  
Road Projects ◽  
Project Risks ◽  
Risk Potential

A comprehensive plan is required to anticipate risks in a construction project. In practice, however, anticipated or unanticipated risks may eventually lead to delays in the project completion date. The aim of this research is to quantify the delay risk potential of a road project during the construction phase. A project at Batang-Kendal road has carried out thorough planning for all required aspects. However, in the implementation of a project, there is often the occurrence of irregular events, which act as a case study for this research, from which delays were identified, observations mapped and semi-structured interviews conducted with project stakeholders, i.e. owner, contractors and supervisory consultants. An instrument was developed to assess and quantify the project risks identified using a 1 to 5 Likert scale. The results showed nine types of delay risks and 32 sub risks. The quantification of these risks was classified into four risk levels, i.e. extreme (6.25%), high (53.13%), medium (34.37%) and low (6.25%). These findings may represent delay risk potentials of typical road projects during the construction phase, from which lessons can be learned. The assessment instrument proposed can also be used for other road projects, which will be beneficial for project stakeholders in anticipating delay risk potentials.

scholarly journals Is there a crisis of participatory planning?

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Legacy
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
The Political ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Road Project ◽  
East West ◽  
Critical Literature ◽  
Citizen’S Participation

The critical literature on participation warns that a focus on ‘consensus’ evades the political in planning, preventing citizens from confronting and challenging discourse and prevailing orthodoxy about the way the urban ought to be constituted. These critiques raise important questions about the efficacy of participatory planning and its political formation. Moreover, the extent to which citizen’s participation can ever challenge dominant trajectories has reached a point of conceptual ‘crisis’. In this article, I explore the different ways in which participation manifests from the politicising participatory moments in planning. Examining a single case study in Melbourne, Australia, I draw upon 15 key informant interviews with community campaigners who mounted a successful campaign to defeat the controversial East West Link road project. By examining the formal and informal political manifestations of participation over a period of 2 years, this article challenges the sentiment that there is a crisis of participatory planning. It shows how decisions to engage the citizenry in prescribed ways induce other manifestations and formations of citizen’s participation through politics and how these manifestations garner a pervasive and influential trajectory to reshape participatory planning.

scholarly journals Case Study of Tolled Road Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinaj Pathan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Road Project

scholarly journals Impact of roads on biodiversity: a case study from Karekhola rural road in Surkhet district of Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. KC ◽  
A. P. Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Floristic Composition ◽  
Timber Species ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural Road ◽  
Road Project ◽  
Road Projects

Loss and degradation of biodiversity is continuing despite the past conservation efforts in Nepal. Out of many potential causes, this study strives to investigate the effects of a road project on biodiversity in the Middle Hills of Nepal. Information about floristic composition was collected from the adjoining community forests using group of 30 circular sample plots, each located at 50 m and 20 m far from the edge of the road. Results provide evidence that rural road projects are contributing to reduction of biodiversity which may be due to the removal of low-yielding timber species near the road-edge. The study also suggests that proximity to road-edge reduces under- storey vegetation which will lead less capable forest to sustain its original biodiversity. However, silvicultural operations have potential to minimize the indirect loss of biodiversity caused by road projects.Banko JanakariA Journal of Forestry Information for NepalVol. 26, No. 1, Page: 70-77, 2016

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