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Measures need to be in place during the construction phase to insure that the final project design adheres to the contract specifications and that the project progress is in line with the contract document and that the resources are managed accordingly. This is where information technology would benefit the project management aspect of construction and provide information integration throughout all...
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a term that covers a variety of different ways of facilitating the resolution of disputes without recourse to the courts. It can involve different processes and can be triggered by different events in different countries. There are various ADR mechanisms available, including mediation, conciliation, adjudication, expert determination, early neutral evaluation...
"Labor Contractor" as a non-enterprise legal person, it has experienced a long historical period. For development of the construction industry in China, "Labor Contractor" played its historical role, but also buried potential problems for the healthy development of the construction industry. In this paper, it proposed solutions to "contractors" in response by analyzing...
Construction industry has been regarded as the locomotive of Taiwan's business in 1970. Because there are inherent limitations, construction has gradually become a more backward industry. Taiwan joined the WTO in 2001, construction firms need to improve management and implementation of physical fitness to cope with the impact of open markets. In order to comply with the fairness and avoid unnecessary...
Despite to the initial attractions, the international projects are potentially high-risk and their negative impacts can affect international contractors if the risks are not identified in the contracting phase. The implementation of an efficient risk management process can reduce the negative impacts of identified risks which may in turn increase the profit of these companies. Risks of international...
The overall stock of construction disputes in China is quite enormous, and the cost of justice in settling these disputes remains stubbornly high. In order to solve the problem efficiently, economically and harmoniously, this paper summarizes and analyzes the problems and deficiencies of the litigation and arbitration systems now we used on the basis of the status quo through the positive survey....
Benefits of Building Information Model (BIM) for the construction industry are many and varied. Despite the benefits and the range of issues it can bring, BIM for the most part has been treated lightly in project agreement. According to the relatively-recent emergence of BIM and its evolving capabilities and uses, there is a general consensus that the industry must do better. In order to meet the...
Construction stakeholders always use standard form of contract to regulate their contractual obligations and expectations during contract administration process. They need to refer a vast of contract provisions in the process. It always leads misunderstanding and interpretation errors as most of construction practitioners are without a proper legal background. Hence the research aims to apply data...
Technical innovation is an effective means for realizing the adjustment and upgrading of construction industrial structure and enhancing the industrial competitiveness. This paper analyzes that the government policy arrangement promotes and supports the construction technological innovation. In addition, the study offers concrete solutions to support system in the capital, intellectual property protection...
Risk management for international project is a relatively new problem for Chinese construction companies. The research in this paper first introduces the risk management techniques for international construction projects, then analyzes the characteristics of the international projects, and finally puts forward some useful countermeasures to the possible risks which are likely to occur during the execution...
In order to facilitate the project construction management more scientific, standardized, process-oriented and institutionalized, this paper summarizes and abstracts the thinking and practice of process reengineering, combing with the actual needs of project construction management, it studies and puts forward the concept , characteristics, principles, methods and steps of process reengineering in...
The paper, based on researches, analyses the status and problems of Tianjin city disasters emergency management system. The paper, by analyzing the connotation of city disasters emergency management system and the need to set up it, and learning from advanced emergency management experience in other cities at home and abroad, points out the corresponding countermeasures on building Tianjin city disasters...
With the development of theory and practice of the international project claim management, the contractor carrying out the contract claims is no longer based solely on the contract agreement, but rather towards the combination of contractual and legal trends. In FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Civil Engineering Construction (Red Book, 1987 edition), there has a more comprehensive description and...
Facing the opportunities and challenges of Internet age, Chinese government has initialized the system of network communication with civil society. However, there still exist some notable issues mainly as follows. First, the complexity of Internet information causes the disorders of network political participation. Second, the powers of Internet age are clearly shifted to the hands of technocrats,...
In this paper, both characters and problems reside in the present public emergency rescue mechanism were analyzed. According to national conditions, a new pattern of Public Emergency Rescue Force System (PERFS) is presented based on the fire forces, which has the unitized management, coordinated working style etc. Adhering to the laws, this new PERFS is leaded by the central government, and a three-levels...
Bidders at the tendering stage conceal the existence qualifications, reputation, management level, financial status and so on, which brings a potential danger to the smooth implementation of projects and contract goals, and the bidder's unbalance bidding based on the tendering document's flaw, using itself construction technology or management advantages , the future of the project expected and so...
With the fast social development and the acceleration of urbanization, the project has expanded continuously and the number has increased gradually of building engineering of villages and towns, but the present relief work has not brought casualty loss under the fundamental effective control. The reasons lie in the constant emergence of the new disasters, as well as the poor quality of building engineering...
One of the essential issues confronting the development of China's urban design is to seek a development approach towards scientific rationality. By reviewing and summarizing the development track of urban design in modern China, introspecting the problems and challenges when confronting its development, five approaches to develop scientific and rational urban design have been worked out i.e. market-orientated...
In an ecologically vulnerable area, due to the severe man-land conflict and ecological vulnerability, the traditional approach of "greater agricultural placement" to the construction of investment projects would make the resources and environment of this area unsustainable, thereby affecting the effectiveness of resettlement. Therefore, it is imperative to avoid resource and environmental...
In this paper, the existing law environment of the construction project insurance in China was firstly analyzed. Suggestions on improvements to the present laws were then made. Furthermore, a trial regulation of the construction project insurance in Hangzhou City of China was proposed.
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