Contents FACTORS OF CONFLICT AND DISPUTE IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY 1.0 MAIN RESEARCH TITLE Factors of Conflict and Dispute in Construction Industry ABSTRACT Today‘s construction projects become more complex in nature. The complex‚ relational and lengthy process of designing and building makes construction a process in which disputes are virtually ensured. Furthermore‚ the involvement of multidisciplinary in the construction project also leads to conflicts among the parties. It
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THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY JANUARY 2009 INTRODUCTION The current crisis in the world’s financial system has left the construction industry facing its toughest challenges for a generation. Salaries are falling; job cuts are predicted to reach 400‚000 in England alone; and the impacts look set to get much worse before they get better. No country is immune from the impact of this and the UK‚ and much of the rest of the world‚ is already in‚ or about
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Nanotechnology in Construction Engineering Ashwani K. Rana1‚ Shashi B Rana2‚ Anjna Kumari3 and Vaishnav Kiran4 National Institute of Technology‚ Hamirpur (H.P)‚ India Email: 1ashwani_paper@yahoo.com 2 Regional Campus G.N.D.U. Gurdaspur‚ Punjab‚ India Emails: 2shashi_rana12@yahoo.co.in‚ 3anjna.paper@gmail.com‚4vaishnav.rana@gmail.com‚ 1‚ 3‚ 4 Abstract— Nanotechnology is one of the most active research areas that encompass a number of disciplines including civil engineering and construction materials
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Task 1 One of the significant contributor to climate change and other environmental threats is the construction sector. The construction industry has a major impact on our environment and our country cannot meet its environmental goals & objectives with substantially reducing the environmental impact of buildings and infrastructure. Thus‚ this sector needs to make an extensive and stringent shift in its practices in order to alleviate the impact of these threats. Hence‚ we have to change the way
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A social construction or social construct is any institutionalized entity or artifact in a social system "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular culture or society that exists because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules. One example of a social construct is social status. Social constructionism is a school of thought which deals with detecting and analyzing social constructions. Emile Durkheim first theorized about social construction
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On The Globalization of the Construction Industry “How has globalization impacted on the construction industry in terms of issues such as: structure‚ characteristics of the industry and individual firms‚ building cycles and forecasting the future direction of the overall economy and the construction industry in particular”. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1.0 Executive Summary 2.0 Introduction 3.0 Globalization 4.0 Structure 4.1 The Global Construction Industry 4.2 Issues Relating
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quality that is expected at a given cost within an acceptable time frame. To achieve the above‚ a higher level of “control” is required as things do not happen by chance. Control is therefore a process of regulation which seeks to maintain conformity to some kind of plan. Those charged with the responsibility of executing the plan must be aware of the objectives on which it is based‚ and the resources at their disposal. On a construction project these resources include materials‚ services‚ skills‚ energy
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Adjudication in the Malaysian Construction Industry Background for the Research Adjudication is one of the alternative dispute resolution procedures for resolving disputes‚ which giving of a non-binding opinion at the request of a party or parties to a dispute‚ and either party may refer to arbitration at a later stage. In the Latham Report (1994) recommended‚ inter alia‚ adjudication as the standard first instance dispute resolution technique in construction contracts. In response‚ statutory-based
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The purpose of accelerated bridge construction is to ensure the project planning‚ procurement‚ and logistics approach are modified to ensure tasks with long lead times‚ traditionally completed onsite‚ are of highest priority and completed using creative solutions. Multiple scenarios require the need for accelerated bridge construction technologies; where a bridge is being constructed or reconstructed over an existing roadway in use‚ where a bridge is being reconstructed or replaced for an existing
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1.0 The issue Defined 1.1 General Background Back in the day before there were computers the whole construction process was done by pen and paper from the bidding process to the actual drawings themselves. Since the innovation of the computer and interactive software these processes have gotten much more efficient. There have been many programs that ease the construction process. Such programs include‚ drawing software (AutoCad)‚ spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel)‚ programs to assist with
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