Rationale Construction Industry is a complex‚ dynamic and multidisciplinary organization that is characterized by uncertainty and very innovative due to the uniqueness of its products. The industry faces a lot of pressure in the areas of improved processes that will encourage efficiency in the project success criteria. This assures its Clients of a timely delivery of a project on budget and to the required quality and standard. (Latham‚ 1994)‚ in his report‚ ‘Rethinking Construction’ had elicited
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borrow more money for project investments. * Infrastructure UK unit built in HM Treasury in 2010 and actively discussed $109bn Transportation and Infrastructure Bill containing large infrastructure projects will aim to develop infrastructure industry in the UK and USA respectively (HM Treasury‚ 2012; Weisman‚ 2012) * Political issues in the Middle East increased commodity price volatility (Hotter‚ 2011). A growth in the commodity prices enhanced global mining activity which increased the
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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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INSTITUTION: KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY‚ KUMASI DEPARTMENT: BUILDINGTECHNOLOGY NAME: PHILIP QUAQUE AHIABOR PROGRAMME: QSCE 4 RESEARCH TOPIC: MOTIVATION OF WORKERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN GHANA (CASE STUDY: SELECTED CONSTRUCTION FIRMS IN GREATER ACCRA REGION) CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Motivation is the set of reasons that encourages one to engage in a particular behaviour. The term is generally used for human motivation but‚ it can be used to describe the causes
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following risk matrix below‚ in Table ?‚ extracts the major issues that could adversely affect this development. This risk matrix has been produced to cover all the main aspects of the project‚ other variables that can be included are preliminaries‚ construction phases‚ builder and/ or client variations‚ etc. As this report is predominantly aimed at assessing the feasibility of our development‚ we will only be touching on major issues that could potentially cripple the development and its returns if they
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Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on the Telecommunication Industry University of Phoenix MBA 501 Forces Influencing Business in the 21st Century January 22‚ 2007 Introduction The intent of this paper is to perform an analysis of the cable industry’s external environment. The first sections of the document will discuss environmental scanning and define the telecommunication niche that is currently occupied by cable operators such as Comcast. The next section will identify the macroeconomic variables
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Quality Assurance in Construction The importance of Quality Assurance is based on the principals of getting things right first time. By implementing‚ maintaining‚ reviewing and continually improving a Quality Assurance System a company can achieve and reap the benefits of having such a system in place. Quality Assurance exists because of the degree of dissatisfaction experienced by the industry’s clients over a long period‚ combined with a growing impatience by some of their advisers to achieve
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Macroeconomic study of deal not with individual but aggregate of these quantities not with individual incomes but nation incomes not with individual output but with the nation output Macroeconomic as two policies which are; Financial or monetary macroeconomic policies: The government can make the balance of how money can be supply. The money can be supply in three term which are: OMO- Open Market Operation Reserve requirement Interest Rate OMO can supply money into the bank through
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a very industry. It is a major problem in both developing and developed countries but the trend is more severe in developing countries. Large construction projects with their features of complexity and capital requirement have resulted interest to many researchers. Roachanakanan (2005) examined the causes and solution of cost escalation in Thailand and United States. He illustrated how the project cost control procedure used in United States can be applied to the construction industry in Thailand
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1: The Science of Macroeconomics Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole. It addresses many topical issues which includes growth in incomes‚ changes in the overall level of prices‚ and the unemployment rate. Macroeconomists attempt to explain the economy and to devise policies to improve its performance. Economists use different models to examine different issues. Macroeconomic events and performance arise from many microeconomic transactions‚ so macroeconomics uses many of the
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