Download or read book Technology and Productivity in Highway Construction written by Janet Koch Rossow and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Technology in the Productivity of Highway Construction in the United States written by Janet Koch Rossow and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advancing the Competitiveness and Efficiency of the U S Construction Industry written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction productivity-how well, how quickly, and at what cost buildings and infrastructure can be constructed-directly affects prices for homes and consumer goods and the robustness of the national economy. Industry analysts differ on whether construction industry productivity is improving or declining. Still, advances in available and emerging technologies offer significant opportunities to improve construction efficiency substantially in the 21st century and to help meet other national challenges, such as environmental sustainability. Advancing the Competitiveness and Efficiency of the U.S. Construction Industry identifies five interrelated activities that could significantly improve the quality, timeliness, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of construction projects. These activities include widespread deployment and use of interoperable technology applications; improved job-site efficiency through more effective interfacing of people, processes, materials, equipment, and information; greater use of prefabrication, preassembly, modularization, and off-site fabrication techniques and processes; innovative, widespread use of demonstration installations; and effective performance measurement to drive efficiency and support innovation. The book recommends that the National Institute of Standards and Technology work with industry leaders to develop a collaborative strategy to fully implement and deploy the five activities
Download or read book The Relationship Between Information Technology and Construction Productivity written by Dong Zhai and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research and Competitiveness in the Construction Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leveraging Technology to Improve Construction Productivity written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Technology and Construction Productivity written by Dong Zhai and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decades, information technology has been impacting industries, economics, the way of life and even the culture throughout the world. Productivity has been attracting much attention as an important indicator of economics, and numerous researchers have investigated the relationship between information technology and productivity, but little research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between information technology and construction productivity. Through a series of statistical analyses, the author analyzed this relationship at country, industry and project levels, and found a positive correlation between information technology and construction productivity. This book should be useful to construction professionals who want to adopt more IT to improve their projects' productivity, or anyone else who is interested in the quantitative relationship between IT and construction productivity.
Download or read book Innovative Production And Construction Transforming Construction Through Emerging Technologies written by Peng Wu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 38 chapters, this must-have volume outlines essential information about the implementation of emerging technologies, from building information modeling and 3D printing, to life cycle assessment and information technology in construction and engineering projects.It covers practical case studies to demonstrate the implementation of emerging technologies in a compact style, ensuring that practitioners can adopt these methods to realize immediate benefits in productivity, safety and performance improvement.
Download or read book Emerging Technologies for Construction Delivery written by John J. Hannon and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 2007 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual on the Planning of Labour intensive Road Construction written by Moise Allal and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ILO pub-WEP pub. Manual on planning and project evaluation of labour intensive road construction projects in developing countries - covers road design and construction techniques, analysis of costs and maintenance costs, evaluation of alternative choice of technology, organization and management, etc., and constitutes part of the WEP. Graphs, illustrations and references.
Download or read book Productivity Improvement for Construction and Engineering written by J. K. Yates and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.K.Yates focuses on investigation and analysis techniques that can be used by engineering and construction firms to support the implementation of productivity improvement programs.
Download or read book Emerging Technologies for Construction Delivery written by Christofer Harper and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis documents the use of selected advanced technologies used for transportation highway construction projects of state departments of transportation. The technology areas are (1) visualization and modeling, (2) interconnected technologies, (3) safety technologies, (4) instrumentation and sensors, and (5) unmanned aircraft systems. Information used in this study was gathered through a literature review, a survey of state departments of transportation, and follow-up interviews with selected agencies for case examples.
Download or read book Construction Equipment Travel Path Visualization and Productivity Evaluation written by Siyuan Song and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. construction industry represents approximately 4% of the U.S. gross domestic product (BEA 2015) and currently involves over 6 million workers employed by an estimated 750,000 construction firms (BLS 2015). Within this industry, productivity is a key driver for economic growth and strongly affects prosperity for the country (Vogl and Abdel-Wahab 2014). More specifically, higher construction productivity and more reliable installation (quality) translates into higher wages and increased profits (Vogl and Abdel-Wahab 2014). On many construction projects, productivity is defined or greatly impacted by equipment cycle time. Furthermore, the U.S. construction industry continues to be one of the more dangerous work environments for employees (BLS 2015). Construction workers in the U.S. experience a disproportionate number of fatalities when compared other major industrial sectors in the U.S. (BLS 2013). Visibility has proven to be a major cause of accidents on construction sites (Hinze and Teizer 2011). This research seeks to prove the hypothesis that visibility and location-based data can be automatically collected and analyzed for construction equipment operators to assess a construction equipment cycle. As one of the more promising recent implementations in the construction industry, sensing and design technology provide unique opportunities to capture and analyze location-based information on construction sites. These technologies can enable productivity managers to identify, assess, and decrease the overall cycle time of a specific operation. This research implements Building Information Modeling (BIM), Global Positioning System (GPS) location identification, and laser scanning to enable automated data collection and analysis. The overall objective of the research is to automatically capture and analyze elements of a construction equipment cycle. The outcomes of this research addresses the following key components of an equipment cycle time: 1) automated cycle time path planning, 2) location-based data capture and analysis of real-time equipment cycles, and 3) equipment path environment visualization. The research framework was tested with active construction site data, and feedback from the workforce and management was assessed and integrated into the research approach. The research has the potential to improve productivity on construction sites and enhance construction employee safety performance. It will also assist in adding a link between productivity planning and management and existing project BIMs.
Download or read book Construction 4 0 written by Anil Sawhney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modelled on the concept of Industry 4.0, the idea of Construction 4.0 is based on a confluence of trends and technologies that promise to reshape the way built environment assets are designed, constructed, and operated. With the pervasive use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), lean principles, digital technologies, and offsite construction, the industry is at the cusp of this transformation. The critical challenge is the fragmented state of teaching, research, and professional practice in the built environment sector. This handbook aims to overcome this fragmentation by describing Construction 4.0 in the context of its current state, emerging trends and technologies, and the people and process issues that surround the coming transformation. Construction 4.0 is a framework that is a confluence and convergence of the following broad themes discussed in this book: Industrial production (prefabrication, 3D printing and assembly, offsite manufacture) Cyber-physical systems (actuators, sensors, IoT, robots, cobots, drones) Digital and computing technologies (BIM, video and laser scanning, AI and cloud computing, big data and data analytics, reality capture, Blockchain, simulation, augmented reality, data standards and interoperability, and vertical and horizontal integration) The aim of this handbook is to describe the Construction 4.0 framework and consequently highlight the resultant processes and practices that allow us to plan, design, deliver, and operate built environment assets more effectively and efficiently by focusing on the physical-to-digital transformation and then digital-to-physical transformation. This book is essential reading for all built environment and AEC stakeholders who need to get to grips with the technological transformations currently shaping their industry, research, and teaching.
Download or read book Productivity in Construction written by S. P. Dozzi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gravel Roads written by Ken Skorseth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.
Download or read book Analysis of Productivity in Highway Construction written by A. P. Talvitie and published by . This book was released on 1989* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
