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The world has gone mobile. As a result, it changes the people's mindset and preferences. People tend to choose smaller and compact devices due to its mobility and started to leave the desktops and laptops behind. For that reason, many companies have engaged in taking a further step to update their services to be accessible from these kinds of device as well. However, to absolutely dispose and replace...
Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) is the sum of all costs that would disappear if the job is done right first time. According to various researchers, COPQ ranges between 22 to 33% of total revenues. COPQ remains hidden because normally it is not measured and recorded in the existing accounting systems. Management fails to initiate timely corrective actions due to lack of knowledge of hidden problems/losses...
The construction industry has many underlying causes and factors of uncertainty that impact on project completion schedule and time management. Uncertainties in design, procurement, operation and environmental issues are the major sources in construction project that should be managed. Most of researchers proposed a modelling and simulation techniques to solve these uncertainties problem nevertheless...
Construction project managers normally need develop their professional knowledge and practical skills in construction technologies and management on the basis of long term work experience. Their organizational commitment and job satisfaction level significantly influence their performance attitudes and job achievements. Keeping construction project managers highly committed to and satisfied with the...
Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ) would not have been expended if the job is done right the first time. Some researchers claim that COPQ ranging between 22 to 32% of total revenues remains hidden and project managers fail to initiate corrective actions. COPQ is an un-necessary burden; it reduces productivity and profitability. Therefore, an innovative system is required to identify and measure COPQ at construction...
Recently, the natural disaster and the accident have happened frequently in the country and foreign countries. At that time, the construction's business that is stopped is magnified the shattering damage. Hence, formulating the construction's BCP is necessary. In this study, we develop the system which supports the BCP formulating for a construction company.
Transparency is one of the practical measures taken to curtail corruption. It is about the sharing of information of government decisions and activities, good record management and access to information. Whereas, integrity provides the basis for transparency and accountability since integrity is referred to as honesty and trustworthiness in the discharge of official duties, serving as antithesis to...
This paper presents a literature review on the issues and challenges of ICT implementation in the construction industry. The objectives of this study are identification of the current types of ICT application used in the construction industry, Analysis of ICT training programs and identification of benefits, weaknesses and challenges against ICT implementation in construction industry. The study identified...
The existence of Industrialized Building System (IBS) in Malaysian construction industry was started when the Ministry of Housing and Local Government has launched new initiatives to develop the IBS construction after visiting several European countries where the IBS project was already implemented. However, the participation of contractors to get involved in the IBS project is currently poor. The...
The fundamentals of collaboration are rewards and risk sharing, information sharing and mutual benefits. The purpose of this paper is to describe the readiness of the Malaysian main contractors for collaboration in the construction industry. Based on a Malaysian wide postal questionnaire survey, the opinions of the main contractors were assessed on the readiness for collaboration and the factors influencing...
The construction industry is still plagued by poor quality, poor workmanship, poor safety and health environment, and poor practices. The current main problem in the Malaysian Construction Industry is delayed projects under the Ninth Malaysia Plan. The idea of introducing formal risk assessment among Malaysian contractors during the project planning stage is a proactive approach to achieve project...
The level of construction site employees' access to and usage of public transport impacts on productivity. Absenteeism, late arrival, and early departure to and from work result in losses in productivity. Modeling various options of transport provision, the question of viability for employers to provide transport to staff can be assessed. The presented models consider more than the resultant cost...
This paper is performed mainly to introduce Dispute Board (DB) as the one of the many Alternative Dispute Resolutions (ADRs) to be applied into the Malaysian construction industry to reduce and minimize the amount of disputes. This research is carried out by interviewing nine respondents which consist of registered Quantity Surveyors. Litigation and arbitration has been widely applied in Malaysia...
Corruption in construction is a fiduciary crime that is believed to slowly penetrate the construction sectors in countries around the world. It that can reduce the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of infrastructure services that resulted in construction projects that is unnecessary, unsuitable, and defective. In order to control effectively the level of corruption in construction, the critical...
"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...
Both China and Japan have great influence on the Asia-Pacific and even the world economy. China's development is obvious to all. Chinese construction industry has made significant achievements in recent years. As one of the developed countries, Japan has been stagnating for several years. After decade years of decline, the Japanese construction industry recovered in 2008 and accelerated slightly from...
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...
This paper is a review of the risk management process and risks commonly associated with construction projects, particularly the roles of insurance and bonding as tools of managing such risks and how to make better use of the insurers' resource in China.
Combining with the characteristics of the construction enterprise, this paper establishes the construction enterprise competitiveness evaluation index system on the basis of the analysis of the current situation of evaluation methods. The rough set is utilized to make reduction of evaluation index and calculate the reduced index weight by through AHP. Then the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is applied...
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...
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