Gregory Prescott October 24‚ 2008 English 1200 Construction Workers Safety Issues Homes‚ Restaurants and the world around us are all made possible by our fellow construction workers. Construction is a high risk job dealing with many safety issues. The issues of safety can lead to serious injury or even death if precautions for eliminating these problems are not being used effectively. The safety problems deal with the equipment used‚ contamination and location problems. There are ways to lessen
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INTER-BAU‚ Nigeria’s foremost indigenous Construction Company‚ dates back to the early eighties with the establishment of its operational base in the Delta State Capital Asaba. The company was founded in response to the increasing road construction‚ rehabilitation and maintenance potential in the country following the oil boom and the attendant growth in all sectors of the economy. INTER-BAU is undoubtedly best known through the high quality road... construction and other related projects executed
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on which it is based‚ and the resources at their disposal. On a construction project these resources include materials‚ services‚ skills‚ energy‚ information and working capital. Flanagan et al (1997) state that the construction industry and the environment in which it operates have changed significantly – the process of change now seems to be never ending and hectic. There have been: new approaches to buying design and construction; fragmentation of the industry with the increase in specialist
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Introduction Nowadays‚ the growth of construction industry’s productivity is slow‚ unlike the manufacturing sector‚ where standardization of components‚ mechanisation and innovation greatly enhance the rate of production‚ that is because of the procedure of construction industry is more complicate and always take longer time than manufacturing sector. Therefore‚ the supply to meet the needs and demand of housing and infrastructure is a very slow process. This is a serious problem which indicates
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innovation has led to the discovery of new approaches to best practice by different players in the construction industry in the United Kingdom. These efforts have been initiated with the view to increase understanding of the needs of key business areas as well as increase client‚ users and stakeholders ’ value. In this regard experts in the field of construction have proposed "rethinking of construction" (Egan 1998) by strategically rethinking operational stages in order to decrease cost and improve
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1.0 Introduction To select a suitable procurement strategy for a construction project‚ there are some issues which need to consider. From all of those issues‚ there are 3 big issues that mainly affect the selection decision which are time‚ cost and quality. There is several type of procurement strategy available in market that commonly used for construction project and each of the common method will be analyze and compare to find the most appropriate method for this project. The choice of procurement
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our supervising engineer to visit the construction site which is a four storey commercial building located at Miguelito St.‚ Paliparan‚ Marikina City. We were able to have a hands-on activity on how to install stirrups and reinforcement bars on stairs. Our supervising engineer also taught us to manage a construction logbook. Its purpose is to monitor the entire development in the construction process. It is part of the documents required in any constructions by the municipal engineering office
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Abstract Construction sector and construction activities are considered to be one of the major sources of economic growth‚ development and economic activities. Construction and engineering services industry play an important role in the economic uplift and development of the country. It can be regarded as a mechanism of generating the employment and offering job opportunities to millions of unskilled‚ semi-skilled and skilled work force. It also plays key role in generating income in both formal
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609‚ International Issues in Construction July 13‚ 2014 ____________________________________ The Main Drivers of the International Construction Industry‚ Global Economy and Its Role in Developed and Developing Countries including the Philippines (Answers to Questions 1 and 3) The construction industry is one of the largest in the whole world. This industry contributes about 10 percent of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the entire global economy. Construction has been potentially an employment
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almost all the countries construction industry is one of major industries‚ which impacts greatly on the GDP. In any country‚ the construction industry is recognized as an economic regulator which plays a major role in the economy‚ providing significant contribution to the national economy. (Cheung et al. 2006). Prefabricated construction has become the new era of construction with the development of the technology. With the modern developed economy‚ duration of a construction project and labour requirements
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