A Study on the Style Characteristics and Construction Period of Five-Story Stone Pagoda of Tapri-ri, Uiseong

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has planned future flood control for a rainfall intensity of 100 mm/hr, which corresponds to a return period of 70 years, and a runoff coefficient of 0.8. Considering that the realization of this plan requires a long construction period and high construction costs, the decision was made to proceed by stages. In the first stage, the improvement of the facilities will be based on a rainfall intensity of 75 mm/hr (presently 50 mm/hr), corresponding to a return period of 17 years, and a runoff coefficient of 0.8. In the next stage the facilities will be improved to accommodate a rainfall intensity of 100 mm/hr. In the Nakano and Suginami regions, which suffer frequently from flooding, the plan of improvement based on a rainfall intensity of 75 mm/hr is being implemented before other areas. This facility will be used as a storage sewer for the time being. The Wada-Yayoi Trunk Sewer, as a project of this plan, will have a diameter of 8 m and a 50 m earth cover. This trunk sewer will be constructed considering several constraints. To resolve these problems, hydraulic experiments as well as an inventory study have been carried out. A large drop shaft for the trunk sewer is under construction.

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A Study of Pasa Stone Pagoda- with special reference to the possibilities of marine cultural exchange between ancient Garak Kingdom and Ayuta Kingdom -

Journal of Eastern-Asia Buddhism and Culture ◽

10.21718/eabc.2018.34.14 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 413-449

Author(s):

Geo-Lyong Lee

Keyword(s):

Special Reference ◽

Cultural Exchange ◽

Stone Pagoda

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Risk Assessment Framework to Avoid Serial Failure for New Technical Solutions Applied to the Construction of a CLT Structure Resilient to Climate

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings11060247 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 247

Author(s):

Charlotte Svensson Tengberg ◽

Carl-Eric Hagentoft

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Success Factors ◽

Real Life ◽

Qualitative Assessment ◽

Technical Solution ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Assessment Framework ◽

Construction Period ◽

Design Build ◽

Technical Solutions

Design-build contractors are challenged with the task of minimizing failure risks when introducing new technical solutions or adapting technical solutions to new conditions, e.g., climate change. They seem to have a disproportional trust in suppliers and their reference cases and might not have adequate resources or methodologies for sufficient evaluation. This creates the potential for serial failures to spread in the construction industry. To mitigate this, it was suggested that a predefined risk assessment framework should be introduced with the aim of providing a prequalification and requirements for the use of the technical solution. The objectives of this paper are to develop a comprehensive risk assessment framework and to explore the framework’s potential to adequately support the design-build contractor’s decisions. The framework uses qualitative assessment, relying on expert workshops and quantitative assessments, with a focus on simulation and probabilities. Tollgates are used to communicate risk assessments to the contractor. The framework is applied to a real-life case study of construction with a CLT-structure for a Swedish design-build contractor, where exposure to precipitation during construction is a key issue. In conclusion, the chosen framework was successful in a design-build contractor context, structuring the process and identifying difficulties in achieving the functional requirements concerning moisture. Three success factors were: documentation and communication, expert involvement, and the use of tollgates. Recommendations to the design-build contractor on construction of CLT structure are to keep construction period short and to use full weather protection on site.

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Correction to: Supply ranges of stone blocks used in masonry bridges and their construction period along the East Royal Road in the Khmer Empire, Cambodia

Heritage Science ◽

10.1186/s40494-020-00385-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Etsuo Uchida ◽

Yuichiro Sakurai ◽

Rathborith Cheng ◽

Ichita Shimoda ◽

Yu Saito

Keyword(s):

Construction Period ◽

Royal Road

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The Uneven Settlement Cause and Settlement Prediction of Xi Ying Sluice

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.733.116 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 733 ◽

pp. 116-119

Author(s):

Qing Yuan Zhu ◽

Li Ting Qiu ◽

Ting Jiang

Keyword(s):

Three Dimensional ◽

Normal Operation ◽

Wall Structure ◽

Construction Period ◽

Settlement Prediction ◽

Concrete Pile ◽

Operation Period ◽

Dimensional Finite Element ◽

Three Dimensional Finite Element ◽

Design Construction

Xi Ying sluice built in Xishi River, Changzhou City, is a single span sluice with width of 6m. The chamber is pier wall structure of depressed reinforced concrete floor, when the chamber had a filling and discharging water during construction period, we found that the chamber appeared large uneven subsidence. According to the design, construction and other specific circumstances of Xi Ying sluice, by using three-dimensional finite element method to calculate and analyzed the settlement of the sluice, we studied on the genesis of the uneven settlement and predicted the settlement after the running. Analysis shows that the chamber of the uneven settlement is due to the jacking effect of concrete pile. The settlement has been basically completed caused by chamber weight, there will not be a substantial settlement; In the case of blocking water during operation period, chamber’s settlement increment outside the river side and inside the river side are respectively 0.3mm and 0.4mm; through processing, the settlement of chamber won’t affect the normal operation of sluice.

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Infrastructure Joint Venture Projects in Malaysia: A Preliminary Study

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/20183401020 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 01020

Author(s):

Norsyakilah Romeli ◽

Faridah Muhamad Halil ◽

Faridah Ismail ◽

Muhammad Sufian Hasim

Keyword(s):

Joint Venture ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Developed Country ◽

Survey Question ◽

Construction Period ◽

Railway Infrastructure ◽

Infrastructure Project ◽

Technical Issues ◽

Spss Software ◽

The Government

As many developed country practise, the function of the infrastructure is to connect the each region of Malaysia holistically and infrastructure is an investment network projects such as transportation water and sewerage, power, communication and irrigations system. Hence, a billions allocations of government income reserved for the sake of the infrastructure development. Towards a successful infrastructure development, a joint venture approach has been promotes by 2016 in one of the government thrust in Construction Industry Transformation Plan which encourage the internationalisation among contractors. However, there is depletion in information on the actual practise of the infrastructure joint venture projects in Malaysia. Therefore, this study attempt to explore the real application of the joint venture in Malaysian infrastructure projects. Using the questionnaire survey, a set of survey question distributed to the targeted respondents. The survey contained three section which the sections are respondent details, organizations background and project capital in infrastructure joint venture project. The results recorded and analyse using SPSS software. The contractors stated that they have implemented the joint venture practice with mostly the client with the usual construction period of the infrastructure project are more than 5 years. Other than that, the study indicates that there are problems in the joint venture project in the perspective of the project capital and the railway infrastructure should be given a highlights in future study due to its high significant in term of cost and technical issues.

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