“Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning‚ in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.” -Michel Foucault (The Archeology of Knowledge) Advances in contemporary neuroscience and cognitive psychology
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Identifying Key Risks in Construction Projects: Life Cycle and Stakeholder Perspectives Dr Patrick. X.W. Zou1 ‚ Dr Guomin Zhang2 and Professor Jia-Yuan Wang3 1 and 2: Faculty of Built Environment‚ University of New South Wales‚ Sydney 2052‚ Australia; 3: College of Architecture and Civil Engineering‚ Shenzhen University‚ Shenzhen‚ P.R. China E-mail addresses: 1 p.zou@unsw.edu.au‚ 2 guominz@fbe.unsw.edu.au‚ 3 wangjy@szu.edu.cn Abstract Managing risks in construction projects has been recognised
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Alex Visaggio BCN 3281: Construction Methods September 28‚ 2017 Legal Case Surveying is the process of finding unknown distances by using elevation‚ direction and linear/angular measurements to then translate a design onto a physical area to serve as the basis for construction. The person who conducts the surveying is the surveyor. Surveyors attend school for 4 years or can train as an apprentice for 8 years before getting certified as a professional surveyor. Surveyors work with personnel from
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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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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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Case Study Report Assessment – Background Case Study Leatty Shanghai: A Construction Project Background There is a building boom in residential‚ commercial and institutional buildings all over China. The country is currently using 54 per cent of the world’s production of concrete and 36 per cent of its supply of steel. Predictions suggest that this building boom will continue for at least the next 20 years. Leatty‚ a major property developer‚ has already been involved in several projects
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http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~jsb/jbp/index.html COST PERFORMANCE FOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN KLANG VALLEY A.S. Ali*‚ S.N. Kamaruzzaman University of Malaya‚ Faculty of Built Environment Building Performance and Diagnostic Group 50603 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia Tel: +603-7967 4494 Fax: 603-7967 5713 Corresponding Author: asafab@um.edu.my Abstract Since seventies‚ the economic of Malaysia has undergone rapid growth. Construction industry constitutes an important element of Malaysian economy. It shows
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if the transaction fail. Such situations are rare in construction‚ and are probably limited to the more demanding civil engineering projects (Reve and Levitt‚ 1984) and high performance specifications in areas such as building services. For instance‚ most large infrastructure contractor would invest in batching plant/ on-site concrete mixer‚ which allow specialty concrete mixtures to be developed and implemented on respective construction sites‚ instead of buy from ready mix concrete manufacturing
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Parties Involved In Establish Safety at Construction Site Abstract The research paper is conducted to give awareness to all parties involved in construction industry and to identify the common hazards at site. In construction industry‚ accidents are likely to occur due to human error‚ hazards of the surrounding environment‚ and failure to comply with safety instructions. Generally‚ safety aspects should be the main priority at constructions site to minimize the accidents. The
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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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