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Impact of Subcontracting on Site Productivity: Lessons Learned in Taiwan
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: In the past decade, considerable research effort has been devoted to alleviating site productivity problems in Taiwan's construction industry. However, the results generated so far are frustrating. A school of academic ...
Violations of Professional Technical Standards: Causes and Lessons Learned
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: This study was based on a database of 195 regulatory violations (N=592) of established rules of construction from 1996 to 2019 in Taiwan, and it sought to explore the potential causality of regulatory violations of ...
Multistage Heuristic Approach for Solving Infrastructure Investment Decision Problems
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The solution of an infrastructure investment decision problem is highly complex. The mathematical model developed in this paper represents the investment decision as a 0-1, nonlinear, multiobjective knapsack selection ...
Managing Complex Engineering Interfaces of Urban Mass Rapid Transit Projects
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Managing the engineering interfaces of mass rapid transit (MRT) projects is difficult and exhausting work because thousands of complex interrelated construction interfaces are embedded among multiple subworks and subsystems. ...
Preventive Interface Management for Design-Build Wireless Train Control Mass Rapid Transit Projects
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: Traditional interface design integration for a mass rapid transit (MRT) project focuses on the integration needs of specified interface requirements among civil and electrical and mechanical (E&M) subsystems. This ...