APPLYING DEPENDENCY STRUCTURE MATRIX AND MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TO PREDICT CHANGE IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ZHEN-YU ZHAO‚ QIAN-LEI LV‚ WEI-YANG YOU School of Business Administration‚ North China Electric Power Univ.‚ Beijing 102206‚China E-MAIL: zhaozhenyuxm@263.net‚ seawolf47@163.com‚ ywy132639@163.com Abstract: Change management is an important aspect in construction project management‚ as changes constitute the main cause of schedule delay‚ cost overrun and other distributions. Many change
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The “Social Construction of Reality” is a work of hypothetical reasoning to the redefine the task and to broaden its range to understand the redefining of sociological knowledge. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann both argue that reality is socially constructed by the knowledge of the people for social reality is produced and communicated amongst others. They emphasize on the fact that human is a part of a product of society and vice versa: society is a product of human. Berger and Luckmann follow
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D1 - Assess the importance of addressing environmental issues for the mutual benefit of the community and individual construction firms. The importance of addressing environmental issues for a construction project that will benefit the community and local construction firms is vitally important on everyone’s agenda; it will help firm’s reputation with the local community and authority massively. This can be from using locally sourced materials e.g. materials that can be used without any bad
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"Identifying Root Causes of Construction Accidents‚" the authors‚ Tariq S. Abdelhamid and John G. Everett (2000) presents the development of an Accident Root Causes Tracing Model (ARCTM) that is capable of answering why the accident occurred by identifying possible root causes so that more effective methods for preventing accident can be identified and applied by labor and management. Three examples are examined to explain the use of the model‚ understand construction site’s accidents and identify
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safety and health management as the foundation to ensure the safe work environment in construction work place Construction is noisy‚ dusty‚ hazardous and sometimes the most uninhabitable work place one can ever be exposed to. It is also an industry that contributes persistently to high accident rates; especially fatalities. Everything that is taboo in the safety practitioner’s book can be found in the construction site. For example‚ employees are easily exposed to hazardous substances such as paints
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DETERMINATION OF LOS ANGELES ABRASION VALUE AIM: (i) to determine the Los Angeles abrasion value. (ii) to find the suitability of aggregates for use in road construction. APPARATUS: The apparatus as per IS: 2386 (Part IV) – 1963 consists of: (i) Los Angeles Machine: It consists of a hollow steel cylinder‚ closed at both the ends with an internal diameter of 700 mm and length 500 mm and capable of rotating about its horizontal axis. A removable steel shaft projecting radially 88 mm into cylinder
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An Annual Report of the Construction Industry of China Hong Kong 2007-2008 prepared by AsiaConstruct Team Research Centre for Construction and Real Estate Economics Hong Kong Polytechnic University (www.bre.polyu.edu.hk) for The 14th AsiaConstruct Conference 23rd – 24th October 2008 Tokyo‚ Japan. AsiaConstruct14 Team: Michael Anson1‚ YH Chiang2‚ Eddie CM Hui2‚ Patrick TI Lam 2‚ Stephen WK Mak2‚ HY Ng2 and Eva XT Yin2‚ 1 Professor Emeritus‚ Faculty of Construction and Land Use‚ The Hong
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Footprint Calculation CO2 Emission‚ Energy Consumption and Water Consumption due to Pavement Construction and Usage Darío Enrique Romero Santana Department of Civil and Construction Engineering‚ Western Michigan University 4601 Campus Drive‚ Room G-249 Kalamazoo‚ MI 49008 United States Introduction Footprint is defined as the “measurement of how much land‚ water and natural resources a person‚ city‚ country or humanity as a whole requires to produce the resource it consumes”‚ (Edelman Darym)
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Executive Summary Happyland Construction‚ an engineering firm engaged in the design and construction of oil shale plants‚ is building a new plant in Blissful Valley that requires the use of a new piece of equipment‚ a new crane. The GargantuLift 6000 crane model produced by Mega Corporation is the recommended crane by engineering‚ maintenance‚ finance‚ purchasing‚ and management staff. Senior management needs to decide whether it is more beneficial for Happyland Construction to purchase the crane outright
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In “The Social Construction of Reality‚” by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann‚ the authors performed a sociological analysis of the reality of everyday life. The goal of the article was to analyze everyday life not in a scientific way‚ but in an empirical fashion. An empirical analysis was wanted most likely because the authors wanted to observe and analyze the everyday life from the multiple perspectives that it exists in‚ and not just from a completely scientific and logical viewpoint. Right
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