Post-disaster reconstruction projects are influenced by administrative, political, social, economic, and cultural settings. The likelihood of success of such projects diminishes if and when systematic recovery plans are absent and the project cost and time overruns. Inadequate relevant policies and legal systems and domination from economically or politically powerful groups/persons in planning and decision making processes further weaken the reconstruction process. Furthermore, ignoring the communication
knowledge of the design and construction process. Nowadays, associations in the development area use groups to meet today 's global competition and client desires, however, they require better methods for assessing the viability of the groups. To guarantee that development groups are successful and viable, development organizations must advance, measure, and assess their groups ' viability. A project team is bound by a certain set of constraints, for example, delivering a construction project in a required
Architect and nurture a passion in building constructions. Being an architect has shaped my personality and inculcated sensitivities into me to perceive built spaces and enrich my knowledge of the construction industry. This drove me to pursue my master’s in construction management. I am elated that the Graduate program in Construction Management at Texas A&M University is providing me with tools to satisfy my innate desire of contributing to construction of facilities and blending my skills as a student
a central theme for enduring prosperity (Wang et al., 2014). The construction industry has longed been blamed for unstructured practices owing to lack of oversight, fractured coordination and self-interest that has contributed to negative environmental outcomes (Wang et al., 2014). This paper focuses on a case study that uses a sustainable project management philosophy purported to create long-term sustainability of a large social housing project. Background The International Institute for Sustainable
of conflicts in a construction industry: a communicational approach. Journal of social and behavioral sciences, 110, pp.777-786 Mitkus, T.and Mitkus, S. are the authors of this paper. The paper was published by Elsevier in 2014. Construction conflicts reduce the profits and also have a huge influence on stakeholders’ investments. However, Yiu and Cheung (2006) state that construction conflicts sometimes are inevitable because there are a lot of people take part in the construction project. The authors
Introduction The In recent decades Chinese construction firms have become important and influential players in the international market, over last decades, especially in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Zhao, et al., 2009). The Chinese government?s strong support and encourag encouragement es has facilitated Chinese construction firms to explore pursue the overseas markets. The data from the China Statistics Yearbook (2015) displays states that the international turnover
Quality & Risk Management in Construction Industry Temitayo Lewis University of Maryland University College PMAN 639 Dr. Eva B. Cruz Morel Date: 11/28/2010 University of Maryland University College Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………...3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………...4 Quality Management and Overview…………………………………………...………….. 5 Quality Assurance…………………………………………………………………..7 Quality Control……………………………………………………………………..7 Total Quality Management………………………………………………………………...8
BENEFITS 2.1 Social Benefit 2.2 Environmental Benefit 2.3 Economy Benefit 2.4 Building Technology 3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY/ CASE STUDIES 4.0 CONCLUSION LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES REFERENCES ABSTRACT Nowadays, the development and construction of new building consumes a significant amount of material and non-renewable resource that can impose large costs. Environmental benefits, combined with energy saving and the social advantage of reusing a
prone area and this is one of the biggest disadvantage for the development of the city. This is the rea-son that people are moving out from Christchurch to other parts of New Zealand and outsiders are reluctant to invest in Christchurch. Many big construction companies are trying to make the new structures earthquake resistant. The another field of innovation is making Earthquake Resistant fit outs for the interi-ors and the main focus of the company should be on performing the R&D of Earth-quake resistant
for their effective function and achievement of their objectives. This report includes the information regarding the needs of successful human resources in an enterprise along with the performance management system of the external business (CE Construction Pvt Ltd. Kathmandu, Nepal). The main aims of this report are to learn about the performance management system in the external environment and to implement those gained knowledge in my business. 2. Introduction Performance management is the system