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In plant construction business engineering has an outstanding influence on project success. Thereby, a plant is usually provided by a general contractor as turnkey solution. However, to win these projects, the general contractor is depending on external engineering service providers. The reasons are e.g. missing expertise in non-core-competence activities, lack of staff or too high costs of internal...
This paper presents an analysis of the application of material flow control mechanisms at construction sites. Such control mechanisms are widely used in assembly plants to ensure the correct quantity of materials at the correct destination, to maximize the WIP and for various other essential purposes. However the advantages of material flow control mechanisms can be questionable among certain circumstances...
A conformal rectangular microstrip patch antenna was utilized to determine the dielectric constant of building materials at 2.4 GHz. The antenna was designed using flexible paper substrate and conductive textile. The material under test (MUT) was used as a superstrate to the patch antenna. To estimate the value of εr of the superstrate, closed form expressions for multidielectric layer patch antennas...
In 2007, the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense created the Interagency Biological Restoration Demonstration (IBRD). The goal of IBRD was to reduce the time and resources necessary to recover a wide urban area following an intentional release of Bacillus anthracis. Early in the program it became clear that the absence of a systematic approach to planning for and executing recovery (specifically...
Construction materials usually constitute a major portion of the total cost in a building construction project, which makes the control of this resource important. Despite the potential benefit of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), convincing construction organisations to embrace its use and implementation has proved a difficult task. This paper aims to present a review of the existing...
Combined with the design practice of the newly-built complex building of Harbin No.242 Hospital, this article explains the design philosophy of modern hospitals based on “inosculation” and all-round consideration. Moreover, the meaning of “inosculation” is analyzed in three aspects: environmental planning, architectural form and special arrangement and its active methods and corresponding effects...
The traditional architecture, represented by Suzhou control and protection architecture, is common in historical cities in China. The appropriate conservation measures and renovation techniques should be selected to maximize their retention and preservation, according to the historical and cultural background of the traditional architecture, building value, the natural environment basis and evolution.
From the core of the Bill of Quantities of developing the project costs, this paper compares the differences in the cost of project between the mainland of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in details, such as the rules of the Bill of Quantities, project codes, project names, measurement unit price, project quantities, integrated units, list co-price, measures to project cost. The...
The article mainly carries on the analysis elaboration to the conservation concept of the historical blocks, simultaneously analysis and studies the idea, manner and method of historical block protection in Germany and China, attempts to explore one kind of new protection method which is suitable in the Chinese national condition. To protect the historical block, we have to protect its whole style...
This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
According to urban landscape of the social, cultural, ecological and economic value, This paper outlined the landscape of Xuchang ancient city, and discussed the historical and cultural landscape, including integration and reconstruction of district landscape, cultural landscape and ecological landscape. Xuchang ancient city was planned on basis of economic value, culture value, social value and ecologic...
With the accelerating process of urbanization, the external environment designing has also been affected greatly by more and more physical conditions in country. Taking the post-disaster reconstruction project of DaPing village in Si Chuan province for example, with the purpose of optimizing the external environment, this paper conducts on the overall planning of DaPing village, researches on the...
Virtual Reality (VR) models were created in order to help in the maintenance of exterior closures and interior finishes of walls and in the construction of buildings. The maintenance model allows the visual and interactive transmission of information related to the physical behavior of the elements. To this end, the basic knowledge of material most often used in walls, anomaly surveillance, techniques...
Construction system of rural eco-residential areas was constituted with construction subsystem as the main ponderance, couplings influence exist between subsystems, built a couplings model for construction system of rural eco-residential areas based on grayer relatedness degree, take Yanhe village as an example, simulated and calculated the couplings degree of construction system of Yanhe village...
Based on building energy-saving current situation and the uncertainty analysis in energy-saving chain management, this paper describes the Leak and Spread Mechanism of Building energy-saving in the process of construction to energy-saving Building, constructs the dynamic expansion model to show the growth and expansion trend of construction energy-saving inappropriate information, presents the information...
This paper on one hand demonstrates innovative ideas in old cities' renovation both from improving infrastructural facilities and preserving original life style. On the other hand, it theoretically probes into current ideas of old cities' renovation in China.
Streetscape is a basic carrier of city image, while it presents the structure of urban planning and construction. By analyzing of the character of streetscape's composing system, this paper is illustrated by two aspects of space guiding and specific performance. In first aspect, integrative targets are set, and principles are given to improve the street interface. In the other aspect, with projects...
Distributed energy system (DES) has become the main development tendency of future power generation system. DES refers to a power generating system, cogeneration system and poly generation power system without bulk power transmission to remote areas, which can be in accordance with the energy requirements of user and which makes use of a series of system that can satisfy environmental protection and...
Work on the construction site is known to be inefficient due to workers spending much time waiting for materials, transporting materials and from frequent interruptions of tasks. Studies on the construction site typically use statistical measures to analyse the sampled data about work and such measures, while very useful, can overlook important features of the data. In this paper we apply a previously...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
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