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Entrepreneurial Issues for PM services in Construction Industry
ISBN: 9783847304074 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. A project manager is the person who has the overall responsibility for the successful planning and execution of a project. He/she must possess a combination of skills including an ability to ask penetrating questions, detect unstated assumptions and resolve interpersonal conflicts as well as more systematic management skills. The aim of the study is to understand/know the Entrepreneurial issues like business development plan, risk...
An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of an enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the out...
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Trust in Co-Operative Contracting in Construction
ISBN: 9789629371173 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The construction industry is now facing unprecedented challenges resulting from the advances in information technology and networking through the web. Procurement paradigm of the construction industry has changed significantly in the last decade. More and more projects are requiring the contracting parties to adopt a co-operative attitude for financing, design, project management and operation integration. This changing face of procurement requires a total new mode of contracting behavior - co-operative contracting for maximizing the synergistic effect. This volume identifies the most...
The construction industry is now facing unprecedented challenges resulting from the advances in information technology and networking through the web....
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Strategic Management Practices in The Construction Industry
ISBN: 9783846597552 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thesis is an empirical study of strategic management practices in the construction industry. It examines the dynamic capabilities paradigm within the context of the Indonesian construction industry. The characteristics of asset-capability combinations were found to be significant determinants of the competitive advantage of the Indonesian construction enterprises, and that such advantage sequentially contributes to organizational performance. In doing so, this study fills an important gap in the empirical literature and reinforces the dynamic capabilities frameworks recognition...
This thesis is an empirical study of strategic management practices in the construction industry. It examines the dynamic capabilities paradigm with...
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Productivity Enhancement of Construction Industry using Prefabrication
ISBN: 9783659189616 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prefabrication of building components could be leveraged to improve reported low productivity trend in construction industry. Despite numerous known benefits of prefabrication, uptake of this technology has been discouragingly low. A nation-wide survey of consultants, contractors, employers and manufacturers was carried out in New Zealand and the received feedback was analysed. The subcomponents of the broad constraint categories and their relative levels of impact on the uptake of the technology were reported. Additionally measures for improving the uptake of the technology in construction...
Prefabrication of building components could be leveraged to improve reported low productivity trend in construction industry. Despite numerous known b...
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The Construction Industry Macro Maturity Model
ISBN: 9783659213878 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first step to performance improvement is performance measurement. This is particularly true when seeking to improve the performance of the construction industry. This book presents an innovative approach to performance measurement based on the use of maturity modelling in conjunction with a set of project performance metrics. The maturity model, referred to as the CIM3, assesses the construction industrys maturity with respect to a set of industry practices. An industry practice leads to achievement of an objective, which in turn, leads to the realization of one of the construction...
The first step to performance improvement is performance measurement. This is particularly true when seeking to improve the performance of the constru...
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Cost Management in Construction Industry
ISBN: 9783659225024 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The magnitude of investment involved in civil engineering works is huge at individual level as well as the national level, a small percentage of saving in a civil engineering project is a big amount. In this book cost saving techniques for construction projects has been discussed at every stage of construction it implies right from conceptual phase to the final commissioning or operational phase of the project. The dogma of the book is estimate is an opinion, price is a policy and cost is a fact. Throughout the text rigor and relevance both have been maintained. The book is a harmonious blend...
The magnitude of investment involved in civil engineering works is huge at individual level as well as the national level, a small percentage of savin...
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Indian Construction Industry Disputes Scenario
ISBN: 9783659230806 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disputes are a common occurrence in Indian construction industry. They become very costly in terms of both time and cost and hence must be reduced for improving overall project performance. Although studies in the past aimed towards identification of the causes of disputes, this study specifically aims at finding the inter-relationship between the various dispute causing conditions and better interpret them rather than treating them as standalone elements. Causal modeling of the dispute causes underlines certain root causes to which special attention needs to be given. SAP-LAP paradigm has...
Disputes are a common occurrence in Indian construction industry. They become very costly in terms of both time and cost and hence must be reduced for...
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Motivation and Productivity in the Construction Industry
ISBN: 9781468488296 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bob Warren has given us a c: onstruction management book with a mission: to ensure that the "People Quotient" is hlctored into all bc: ets of project management and job-site performanc: e. Warren demonstrates the importanc: e of respect for every naftsman's individual worth and of empathy for the c: onclitions surrounding c: onstruction employment. He outlines the motivational forces that achieve highest pro- ductivity and, at the same time, displays on every page a broad generosity of spirit along with keen analytical powers. Clearly, the book is the fi-uit of the author's own years of ex-...
Bob Warren has given us a c: onstruction management book with a mission: to ensure that the "People Quotient" is hlctored into all bc: ets of project ...
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Economic impact on the construction industry in S.A
ISBN: 9783659364426 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much has been said and written about the lack of sustainability in the building industry for many years, a condition that has been exacerbated by poor economic growth in general. We also know that the investment in residential buildings was largely responsible for a measure of growth in the past years, but how do we build on this? What role can we play to maintained quality standard within the infrastructure and to improve investment in the non-residential sector of our industry and of our country? What is required to get this engine for growth into gear and to increase our contribution to...
Much has been said and written about the lack of sustainability in the building industry for many years, a condition that has been exacerbated by poor...
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21st Century Technologies for Construction Industry
ISBN: 9781481748605 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-First-Century Technology for the Construction Industry is a book that reveals the uses of modern technology in construction industry. It is vital for anyone who is directly or indirectly involved in construction projects, whether in the practical or educational aspect. More important, it is pertinent for any government that plans to strengthen its budget and alleviate poverty among its people. This book, besides being revealing, informative, and educational, describes procedures that are implementable. Kayesh Technologies, a Nigerian-based IT firm with partners across the globe, can...
Twenty-First-Century Technology for the Construction Industry is a book that reveals the uses of modern technology in construction industry. It is vit...
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Accident Prevention Using Cbr in Construction Industry
ISBN: 9783659233340 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Infact this publication may be the First one to reflect that too in a big volume. It will be more useful for safety team working in construction projects.Over the last few years an alternative reasoning and problem solving method known as Case Based Reasoning (CBR) has attracted more and more attention which solves new problems by adopting previously successful solution to similar problems in construction projects. An attempt has been made to identify the major causes of accidents that affect safety in construction industry and also to suggest a methodology to prevent and reduce the accidents...
Infact this publication may be the First one to reflect that too in a big volume. It will be more useful for safety team working in construction proje...
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Management of Asbestos in the Construction Industry
ISBN: 9783847339762 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an outlook into the use of Asbestos containing Materials (ACM) in Ghana, compared with what has been developed in the European Union (EU) and UK in particular. The fatal risks of Asbestos were overlooked in many instances due to ignorance. The background of Asbestos as a widely used material and its related sickness is discussed first, followed by the acceptance by the Western World and EU countries and UK in particular of Asbestos Regulation Car 2006, came into force on November 13, 2006 (Asbestos Regulations - S12006/2739). These regulations bring together the three...
This book provides an outlook into the use of Asbestos containing Materials (ACM) in Ghana, compared with what has been developed in the European Unio...
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Builders: Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry
ISBN: 9780415688642 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little about builders, their cultures, the organization of their work or the business relations that constitute their industry. This book, based on one-year's participant observation on a London construction site, redresses this gap in our knowledge by taking a close-up look at a section of building...
Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and ...
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Transitional construction industry of Mongolia
ISBN: 9783659340888 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Construction industry is one of the accelerations for the National economy.However, there are numerous problems exist in the collaborative relationship under the construction process. This paper takes a qualitative approach on a comparative study of collaborative relationship in the construction industry of Mongolia pre- vs. post- institutional transition in 1990. We find that in the pre-transition, collaborative relationship was authority based because of homogenous participant background,command entry barrier,formal decision law on conflict resolution, high sense of liability, rare price...
Construction industry is one of the accelerations for the National economy.However, there are numerous problems exist in the collaborative relationshi...
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'Green' & 'Sustainable': The Future Global Construction Industry
ISBN: 9783659387760 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Going GREEN, SUSTAINABLE and ECONOMICAL are the words so famous in the Malaysia construction industry especially in concrete materials for construction applications. This is the first technical engineering book authored by the author featuring her research works during her Master studies focusing in High Performance Concrete (HPC) as the highlighted concrete material.The author have always believed in strong basic understanding to deliver effective applications and results, thus believes that this book will be able to cultivate basic understanding of readers in the concrete technology...
Going GREEN, SUSTAINABLE and ECONOMICAL are the words so famous in the Malaysia construction industry especially in concrete materials for constructio...
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Managing Risk in the Construction Industry through Environmental Compliance: On-Site BMP Checklists
ISBN: 9781490477503 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Construction Industry Digest
ISBN: 9781478107033 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employers have the responsibility to provide a safe workplace. Employers MUST provide their employees with a workplace that does not have serious hazards and follow all relevant OSHA safety and health standards. Employers must comply with specific standards. All employers in the construction industry must also have injury and illness prevention programs. Contractors and employers who do construction work must comply with standards in 29CFR1926. SubpartC, General Safety and Health Provisions, as well as other specific sections of these standards, include the responsibilities for each...
Employers have the responsibility to provide a safe workplace. Employers MUST provide their employees with a workplace that does not have serious haza...
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Asbestos Standard for the Construction Industry
ISBN: 9781478113225 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OSHA 3096, Asbestos Standard for the Construction Industry. Asbestos is the generic term for a group of naturally occurring, fibrous minerals with high tensile strength, flexibility, and resistance to heat, chemicals, and electricity. In the construction industry, asbestos is found in installed products such as sprayed-on fireproofing, pipe insulation, floor tiles, cement pipe and sheet, roofing felts and shingles, ceiling tiles, fire-resistant drywall, drywall joint compounds, and acoustical products. Because very few asbestos containing products are being installed today, most worker...
OSHA 3096, Asbestos Standard for the Construction Industry. Asbestos is the generic term for a group of naturally occurring, fibrous minerals with hig...
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A Guide to Scaffold Use in the Construction Industry
ISBN: 9781478129493 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. OSHA 3150 - A Guide to Scaffold Use in the Construction Industry. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 charges the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with protecting all working men and women across the United States. To do so, the agency sets federal standards for general industry, construction, and shipyard employment. OSHA also promotes a variety of voluntary programs that strive to form partnerships with businesses, labor, and other groups to help employers provide safer and more healthful workplaces for employees. Some of the agency's voluntary initiatives...
OSHA 3150 - A Guide to Scaffold Use in the Construction Industry. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 charges the Occupational Safety and H...
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A Guide to Scaffold Use in the Construction Industry: OSHA 3150 2002 (Revised)
ISBN: 9781475058079 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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