scholarly journals Research on the Unethical Conducts and Practices among Professionals in the Construction Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S3) ◽  
pp. 1130-1136
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Audit Process ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Contracting Process ◽  
Strict Rule

Construction industry involved with large number of stakeholders. This industry has a complex contractual structure besides facing with several of psychological human behavior that exposed to the unethical conducts and practices among professionals. Professional ethics warmly has been discussed today within the construction industry. Ethics can be known as a major catalyst for the construction industry to attain status to a successful industry in the worldwide. As a result the aims to be a developed country can be achieved with cooperation from every structural in the construction community. However, without any changes on the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry can make it all this becomes useless. Thus, the solid understandings and changes need to be executed, implemented and reinforced to ensure that the problems in the professional ethics can be resolved. This paper discusses and reviews on the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the different countries such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Australia, Kenya, United Kingdom and China whereby the different behavior will be visible. The most common highlighted for the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry were the corruption, negligence, unfair conduct, overriding on audit process over contracting process, favoritism, strict rule, conflict of interest, collusive tendering and violation of environmental ethics. In the previous studies, there were mechanism suggested whereby they are divided into three mechanisms included short, medium and long term solutions based on the project factors which are time, cost and quality. The mechanisms suggested can be catalyst in achieving and enhancing ethical conducts and practices among the professional in the construction industry. This review will provide useful information to every stakeholder in confronting with the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry involved

scholarly journals Different approaches to quantify years of life lost from COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Ferenci
Keyword(s):  
Years Of Life Lost ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Individual Patient Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Parametric Survival Model ◽  
Epidemiologic Risk ◽  
Parametric Survival

AbstractThe burden of an epidemic is often characterized by death counts, but this can be misleading as it fails to acknowledge the age of the deceased patients. Years of life lost is therefore widely used as a more relevant metric, however, such calculations in the context of COVID-19 are all biased upwards: patients dying from COVID-19 are typically multimorbid, having far worse life expectation than the general population. These questions are quantitatively investigated using a unique Hungarian dataset that contains individual patient level data on comorbidities for all COVID-19 deaths in the country. To account for the comorbidities of the patients, a parametric survival model using 11 important long-term conditions was used to estimate a more realistic years of life lost. As of 12 May, 2021, Hungary reported a total of 27,837 deaths from COVID-19 in patients above 50 years of age. The usual calculation indicates 10.5 years of life lost for each death, which decreases to 9.2 years per death after adjusting for 11 comorbidities. The expected number of years lost implied by the life table, reflecting the mortality of a developed country just before the pandemic is 11.1 years. The years of life lost due to COVID-19 in Hungary is therefore 12% or 1.3 years per death lower when accounting for the comorbidities and is below its expected value, but how this should be interpreted is still a matter of debate. Further research is warranted on how to optimally integrate this information into epidemiologic risk assessments during a pandemic.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Procurement Methods in Malaysia – Comparing Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build and Construction Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azeanita Suratkon ◽  
◽  
Riduan Yunus ◽  
Rafikullah Deraman ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Project Complexity ◽  
Design Build ◽  
Procurement Method ◽  
Design Bid Build

Design-Bid-Build (DBB) or commonly known as Traditional method is the earliest and most prevalent procurement method used in Malaysian construction industry. Design-Build (DB) and Construction Management (CM) procurement methods were later introduced in Malaysia as an endeavour to satisfy and accommodate the increase in project complexity and the need for avoiding drawbacks of the Traditional methods. Each procurement method has different nature and possesses certain characteristics. Therefore, this study was carried out to ascertain and compare the characteristics of these three procurement methods that are implemented in building construction projects in Malaysia. A questionnaire survey was conducted among architects, consultants, contractors and owners or developers to elicit their feedback on the characteristics which were categorised into time, cost, quality, complexity and flexibility, degree of involvement and responsibility allocation and technical expertise. The findings indicated that only DB method almost fulfils all the characteristics under the six categories, whereas, DBB methods garnered agreement only for certain characteristics under time, cost, complexity and flexibility and technical expertise categories. Meanwhile, the only CM method’s characteristics that satisfy agreement from the respondents are the often used of fast track approach and lack of certainty in price. This study concludes that when a procurement method is adopted for a construction project, not all the features or characteristics will turn out as expected. There are many factors that contribute and are influential on the success in procurement methods that are worth for further investigation.

Building a More Resilient and Low-Carbon Caribbean - Report 3: Impact of Subsidized Financing to Support Resilient Buildings in the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jed Bailey ◽  
Paola Carvajal ◽  
Javier García Fernández ◽  
Christiaan Gischler ◽  
Carlos Henriquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Climate Events

The Caribbean islands are among the 25 most-vulnerable nations in terms of disasters per-capita or land area, and climate change is only expected to intensify these vulnerabilities. The loss caused by climate events drags the ability of the Caribbean countries to invest in infrastructure and social programs, contributing to slower productivity growth, poorer health outcomes, and lower standards of living. Within this context, building resiliency should become a priority for the Caribbean countries. The series “Building a more resilient and low-carbon Caribbean”, focuses on improving the resiliency, sustainability and decarbonization of the construction industry in the Caribbean. The results show that increasing building resiliency is economically viable for the high-risk islands of the Caribbean, generating long term savings and increasing the infrastructure preparedness to the impacts of CC.

Improving the Fatigue Performance of Welded Tubular Connections via Flared and Thickened Pipe Ends

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghiath Guy Mansour
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Fatigue Performance ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Welding Time ◽  
Time Cost ◽  
Steel Catenary Risers ◽  
The Many ◽  
Espirito Santo

Abstract Fatigue is a primary challenge in the design of steel catenary risers (SCRs) and different measures and methods are utilized to mitigate it. Traditional upset ends and steel lazy wave risers (SLWRs) are such methods to mitigate fatigue. SLWRs were first used in 2009 on the Espirito Santo floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel of Shell Company's Parque das Conchas (BC-10) project offshore Brazil. SLWRs have been used increasingly since then and gained popularity especially in recent years. A novel patented tubular connection assembly referred to as Flared Thickened Ends (FTEs) improves the fatigue life of SCRs and welded connections in general. This novel assembly has many advantages. It overcomes the thickness limitation of welding traditional upset ends and reduces offshore welding time, cost, and risk. When FTEs are used in simple SCRs, they render simple SCRs a robustly viable alternative at significantly lower cost, shorter schedule, and with many additional advantages as compared to SLWRs. Of the many advantages, simple SCRs are more straightforward to configure, analyze, design, and install using varied installation methods and vessels. Simple SCRs use less materials and offer better long-term integrity, especially for insulated SCRs. In addition, they have a smaller footprint and are less prone to clashing than SLWRs.

Putinomics under Pressure

Putinomics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Miller
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Winning Strategy ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Russian Politics ◽  
Real Challenge

The war in Ukraine, Western economic sanctions, and slumping oil prices during 2014 and 2015 have renewed questions about the long-term prospects of Putinomics. Many Western analysts predicted that Russia’s economy and Vladimir Putin’s adventurous foreign policy would quickly fold after the imposition of sanctions. These predictions proved false, and Russian businesses have adapted to sanctions and lower oil prices without great difficulty. The real challenge to Putinomics lies not in financial crisis—Putin’s habit of saving in the good times mean that Russia has plenty of resources with which to fend off a financial squeeze—but stagnation. Will Russians tolerate GDP growth of only 1-2%? Such a rate is acceptable for a developed country, but far below Russia’s potential. If discontent surges, can Putin find a way to spark new growth to placate the population? It is difficult to predict the future course of Russian politics. But betting against Putinomics has rarely been a winning strategy. 

Long-term creep behavior of resin-based polymers in the construction industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 60-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joerg Fischer ◽  
Patrick R. Bradler ◽  
David Schmidtbauer ◽  
Reinhold W. Lang ◽  
Roman Wan-Wendner
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Creep Behavior ◽  
Term Creep

scholarly journals SME Managers’ Perceptions of Sustainable Marketing Mix in Different Socioeconomic Conditions—A Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka and Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10659
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kowalska
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Socioeconomic Conditions ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Requirements ◽  
Sustainable Marketing

Current changes in the business environment mean that the pursuit of economic development—without accounting for social welfare and environmental constraints—is replaced by the concept of sustainable development. Enterprises, in order to meet market requirements, adopt sustainable marketing as part of their strategy to provide long-term benefits in the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. The article aims to assess the differences in the use of marketing mix tools (5P) according to the concept of sustainable development in countries with different socioeconomic conditions. The empirical study was based on 262 questionnaires conducted among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in two different countries, i.e., 150 companies operating in Poland (as an example of a developed country) and 112 in Sri Lanka (as an example of a developing country). The obtained results show that there are statistically significant differences between the analyzed markets in terms of implementing sustainable marketing tools. The results allow us to conclude that the sustainable marketing mix activities are significantly more important for SEM managers in Sri Lanka than in Poland.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document