Challenges Facing Today’s Construction Manager Supplemental Reading for CIEG 486-010 Construction Methods & Management Bob Muir‚ PE Fall 2005 Challenges Facing Today’s Construction Manager By Bob Muir‚ PE Introduction There are numerous challenges facing today’s construction manager. Some are new to the industry‚ and some are centuries old. Many of these challenges are a direct result of construction operations‚ while others a result of indirect‚ peripheral activities. A surprising
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started erecting building. The main attention was given to the erection of the building itself‚ the management of the people and material were given less interest. This paper would look at the evolution of project management as a discipline in the construction industry‚ the functions and values would also be evaluated. 2.0 Evolution of Project Management Discipline in the Construction Industry Project management has been in the construction industry since man started erecting buildings; little attention
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Response to “Kitchenette Building” The poem “Kitchenette Building‚” by Gwendolyn Brooks‚ is a rather depressing outlook on those in poverty. The poem reveals how truly horrid the circumstances of the poor are. In the first stanza she says‚ “’Dream’ makes a giddy sound‚ not strong like ‘rent‚’ ‘feeding a wife‚’ ‘satisfying a man.’” By this she means that‚ while the word dream is an enjoyable thing to think about‚ there are too many other things that the poor have to think about‚ like paying the rent
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Russia. I believe that building a large factory near my community has advantages as well as disadvantages. In the following paragraphs I will list basic benefits and losses that will be brought by a new factory. For several reasons‚ I think that a new factory will not be a good addition to my neighborhood. First of all‚ factories often bring pollution. They are prone to contaminating the local air and water. Second of all‚ factories make noise. Another important aspect of building a new factory near
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of our lives. Character is the tree and habits are the seeds you sow to reap it. If you invest in good habits‚ you will have reaped character and if you invest in character you will reap destiny. family plays an important role in character building therefore it must start from the family to build the personality of anoble nation. Family plays an important position in instilling the values of Pancasila which emphasizes the value of honesty‚ mutual emotional and spiritual aspects help you in
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Week 4 Lecture Notes: Ch 10-11 Advanced Construction Documents Week 4 Lecture Notes Chapter 10: Sections Section drawings take an imaginary slice through an object or building and give information on height‚ and relationships between floors‚ ceilings‚ spaces‚ walls‚ and in some instances details of specific contraction techniques. Two or more sections are often cut at 90 degrees to one another to give additional information‚ unless the space or object is very simple. The slice should be
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With increasing popularity of computer games‚ and multimedia home PC users often need an unexpensive computer system upgrade. By building a custom computer one is able to combine componenets‚ and operating system to provide maximal gaming performance. Computers are often called number manipulators‚ because of their ability to run millions of mathematical operations per second (White 43). Computers use binary system of numbers‚ which allows them to operate system of microscopic switches called transistors
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The Building blocks of competitive advantage are Efficiency‚ Quality‚ Innovation and Customer responsiveness (1990‚ Fall).. Competition can increase the pace of scientific advancement‚ Competitive advantage is a term given to any factors that helps a business succeed over its rivals. If a business has a better location than another rival business‚ that would be a competitive advantage. Another example of competitive advantage might be the company’s products versus a rival’s products or a company’s
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differences between masculinity and femininity‚ thus‚ different from the concept of sex describing biological differences between females and males. From a sociological perspective‚ gender is a social construction or an outcome of the social environment. In the definitional aspect‚ social construction relates to the processes by which ideas on how things should work undergo conceptualization into social reality. Before the emergence of the sociology of gender in the 1970s‚ Functionalists focused on
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The building of the Panama Canal had impacted the history of the United States. As imperialism continued‚ Panama had sparked an interest to the Land Of Liberty. For the United States Panama could bring a whole new experience in market and trade with other nations. Many people‚ the Americans believed building the aqueduct was a new hope for America’s forthcoming. The Panama canal is a key piece of global force in the United States. The waterway brought many emulation between the US and other countries
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