Quality Management in Construction Firms Low Sui Pheng1 and Jasmine Ann Teo2 Abstract: As building projects get larger and more complex‚ clients are also increasingly demanding higher standards for their delivery. Total quality management TQM has been recognized as a successful management philosophy in the manufacturing and service industries. TQM can likewise be embraced in the construction industry to help raise quality and productivity. Two case studies of construction companies showed how TQM can
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materials better than those that commonly exist from previous methods of construction? Applying the Green Matter to Construction Introduction Why does that one unique house in your area seem to be different than each stereotypical residence design? It could be because of the green building concepts that were used for its construction‚ seen as there are essentially countless sustainable practices being applied to construction in the world today. The major sections of innovation in the building
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Grant the Great Construction is a small construction company formed from the merger of Grant Thomas Construction &Right Build International. The company has successfully operated in the Durham North Carolina area for the past ten years working on both small and large scale construction‚ repair‚ and alteration projects. With the business boom that is occurring in Greensboro and the desire to improve overall profit margins‚ the company is planning to shift its target market from residential clients
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launched in 1990. BREEAM sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design‚ construction and operation and has become one of the most comprehensive and widely recognised measures of a building’s environmental performance. A BREEAM assessment uses recognised measures of performance‚ which are set against established benchmarks‚ to evaluate a building’s specification‚ design‚ construction and use. The measures used represent a broad range of categories and criteria from energy to ecology
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contradicting advertisements to the perception of information‚ one can take notice to a striking resemblance. The construction of knowledge is affected through both the impact of advertisements in society as well as our recent exposure to the luxury of the internet. The regulation of information and the modern‚ instantaneous method of attaining knowledge contribute to the deterioration of our construction of knowledge. Author Jean Kilbourne describes in her article Advertising’s Influence on Media Content
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Falls in Construction: A Persistent Problem Amber Davis OSHT 1405 Ratliff April 2‚ 2013 Davis 1 Falls in Construction: A Persistent Problem It is a known fact that falling is the leading cause of death in the construction industry. According to OSHA’s statistics for the year 2011‚ 251 out of 721 total deaths in construction were due to falls. Over the last decade‚ OSHA has updated and revised many standards for the construction industry that have been effective in reducing the
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FIRT 1327 Building and Construction Volunteer Lieutenant Killed and Two Fire Fighters Injured Following Bowstring Roof Collapse at Theatre Fire – Wisconsin 10/15/13 Mr. Conklin Christian Rodarte In Wisconsin on March 4th ‚ 2012 a 34 year old lieutenant volunteer firefighter was killed. This man was on top of the roof on a theatre when he suddenly fell through the roof and was trapped isinde the burning theater. I choose this topic because I wfound it interesting
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www.textroad.com Causes of Delay in Construction Projects of Punjab-Pakistan: An Empirical Study Yahya Rahsid‚ Saif ul Haq and Muhammad Shakeel Aslam Assistant Professor‚ MS Scholar and Lecturer respectively at Department of Management Sciences‚ COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ and Lahore Pakistan Received: May 21 2013 Accepted: June 20 2013 ABSTRACT The objective of the present study was to explore the causes of delay in construction projects. Effects of various delaying
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The Call for Sustainable Construction The construction of buildings in the United States accounts for thirty percent of waste output annually. The construction of these buildings also consume seventy-one percent of the total electrical energy in the U.S. Due to the diminishing health of our planet‚ it is evident that sustainability in construction is a necessity. Sustainable‚ or green‚ buildings are not only beneficial to the planet‚ but also to the owner‚ the designer‚ and the builder. Sustainable
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Chapter 4 – Construction Contracts 1. Name and briefly describe each of the two basic types of competitively bid construction contracts. Which type would be most likely used for building the piers to support a large suspension bridge. Why? Two basic types of competitively bid construction contracts are lump-sum and the unit-price contract. The lump-sum contract is when the contractor agrees to complete all work for a pre-determined price including profit and the contract. The unit-price contract
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