The high volume of traffic to the Holy City of Moria during the Easter weekend could be graphically described as taxing to both the motorists and pilgrims. The rationale for the study was to understand, investigate, analyse and describe the role of the Polokwane Local Municipality (PLM) in the planning and the execution of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) Easter weekend pilgrimage with a view to reducing vehicular traffic. The PLM is home to the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), that hosts one of the biggest mass gathering event on the African continent, but researchers and the media have paid little or no attention to this pilgrimage which attracts more than 15 million pilgrims during the Easter weekend. It is notable that a mass gathering is an event attended by enough people to strain the planning and response resources of a community, state or nation. The researchers adopted an action research strategy with the view to carving out a lasting solution to the management of the high volume of vehicular traffic during the Easter weekend pilgrimage. Judgemental or purposive sampling was chosen over other available sampling methods due to the few experienced municipality employees who work closely with the church in the planning of the pilgrimage. Eight themes emerged during the interaction between the researchers and the municipality. The study graphically showed that there was a lack of synergy between the ZCC and the municipality in the execution of the pilgrimage. The research findings suggested that; traffic congestion was attributable to a vehicular-centric approach to transport planning in South Africa. The heavy reliance on vehicular transportation by South Africans is a cause of road accidents. The study recommended an introduction of a pilgrim train for the church with a view to reducing vehicular traffic congestion during the Easter weekend pilgrimage for the collective good of both the motorists and the pilgrims. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2019.
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We are witnesses of projectification of our world. Projects are evolving daily, in faster, bigger and more complex manner, requiring project management to adjust to these changes adequately. One of the major help project managers and their teams have in decision making, planning, monitoring, organizing and doing their everyday activities in general are set of different project management methods, tools and techniques. They are supposed to increase overall project success, which is often not the case, especially on projects of large infrastructure nature. The main aim of this article is to investigate which project management methods, tools and techniques, as well as project management methodologies and standards, managers of infrastructure projects use (due to their company and/or project requirements, knowledge or habits) in accordance to their perceived usefulness in context of Republic of Croatia. This kind of research may help in better targeting of those project management tools that really do make the difference in special contexts. This is especially important in world where added value to projects fulfilment is appreciated more than ever. Methodology used in this research was comprehensive literature review on the field, survey and statistical analysis. Results of the research may be useful both to project management scientists in directing their future research on the field, as well as project management practitioners and educators in usage and development of knowledge, skills and experience of working with the most effective methods, tools and techniques. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2019.
{"title":"Usage of Project Management Methods, Tools and Techniques in Infrastructure Projects","authors":"M. Klepo, M. Radujković","doi":"10.3311/ccc2019-070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3311/ccc2019-070","url":null,"abstract":"We are witnesses of projectification of our world. Projects are evolving daily, in faster, bigger and more complex manner, requiring project management to adjust to these changes adequately. One of the major help project managers and their teams have in decision making, planning, monitoring, organizing and doing their everyday activities in general are set of different project management methods, tools and techniques. They are supposed to increase overall project success, which is often not the case, especially on projects of large infrastructure nature. The main aim of this article is to investigate which project management methods, tools and techniques, as well as project management methodologies and standards, managers of infrastructure projects use (due to their company and/or project requirements, knowledge or habits) in accordance to their perceived usefulness in context of Republic of Croatia. This kind of research may help in better targeting of those project management tools that really do make the difference in special contexts. This is especially important in world where added value to projects fulfilment is appreciated more than ever. Methodology used in this research was comprehensive literature review on the field, survey and statistical analysis. Results of the research may be useful both to project management scientists in directing their future research on the field, as well as project management practitioners and educators in usage and development of knowledge, skills and experience of working with the most effective methods, tools and techniques. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Creative Construction Conference 2019.","PeriodicalId":231420,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2019","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130734692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Construction industry toiling with the adversarial relationship, competitive market, and low overall revenues continues to investigate, study and implement various frameworks that can enhance the relationship among the parties, standardize processes, and enhance productivity and profit margins. The paper takes into account the concept of lean manufacturing/production of waste minimization by the concept of UCC which dates back to 1970s, one of oldest and still functioning UCC is in Tenjin, Japan which was started in 1978. The study is done on UCC’s at a different geographical location across the world trying to identify the factors that contribute to make it a success or failure. Based on the study-specific questions are prepared to analyse UCC’s implementation in Asia’s largest slum Dharavi situated in Mumbai the Financial Capital of India and will seek an answer to the question - can it help enhance the makeover of Dharavi Peer-review
{"title":"Urban Consolidation Centre – in Context with Construction Consolidation Centre a Comparative Analysis","authors":"Saurav Dixit, Subhav Singh","doi":"10.3311/ccc2019-069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3311/ccc2019-069","url":null,"abstract":"Construction industry toiling with the adversarial relationship, competitive market, and low overall revenues continues to investigate, study and implement various frameworks that can enhance the relationship among the parties, standardize processes, and enhance productivity and profit margins. The paper takes into account the concept of lean manufacturing/production of waste minimization by the concept of UCC which dates back to 1970s, one of oldest and still functioning UCC is in Tenjin, Japan which was started in 1978. The study is done on UCC’s at a different geographical location across the world trying to identify the factors that contribute to make it a success or failure. Based on the study-specific questions are prepared to analyse UCC’s implementation in Asia’s largest slum Dharavi situated in Mumbai the Financial Capital of India and will seek an answer to the question - can it help enhance the makeover of Dharavi Peer-review","PeriodicalId":231420,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2019","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121861692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safety Culture of the Herbert Hoover Dike Contractors","authors":"April E. Simons, Lauren W. Redden, Matthew Tibbs","doi":"10.3311/ccc2019-099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3311/ccc2019-099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231420,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Creative Construction Conference 2019","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117172714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehdi Shahparvari, H. Robinson, D. Fong, O. J. Ebohon
Housing has been experiencing significant rework within the supply chain. Rework has afflicted both cost and schedule of projects due to the complex environment, intricate activities and highly fragmented nature of housing supply chain. Housing supply chain generate immense data and share information with different parties, which contribute to multitude of countless challenges. As a result of rework, productivity and workflow of information in construction supply chain has been affected with a catalogue of problems for the past few decades. Automation in construction supply chain with novel technological and analytical strategies has aspired industry to improve the productivity and change the trajectory of traditional, manual and analogue way of processing. The aim of this study is to explore possible opportunities of employing new technologies and challenges involved in utilising automated technologies for minimising rework in housing supply chain. The research methodology is based on a review of literature to investigate automated technologies to eliminate rework in housing supply chain. A conceptual framework is proposed to determine the suitability of various technologies to fully automate housing supply chain and facilitate the reduction of rework in construction housing supply chain. All rights are reserved for Diamond Congress Ltd., Budapest, Hungary, except the right of the authors to (re)publish their materials wherever they decide. This book is a working material for the Creative Construction Conference 2019
住房在供应链中经历了重大的改造。由于复杂的环境、复杂的活动和房屋供应链的高度碎片化，返工影响了项目的成本和进度。住房供应链产生了大量的数据，并与各方共享信息，这带来了无数的挑战。在过去的几十年里，由于返工的影响，建筑供应链的生产效率和信息工作流程受到了一系列问题的影响。建筑供应链自动化以新颖的技术和分析策略促使行业提高生产力，改变传统的人工和模拟处理方式的轨迹。本研究的目的是探索采用新技术的可能机会，以及利用自动化技术最大限度地减少住房供应链中的返工所涉及的挑战。研究方法是基于文献综述，以调查自动化技术，以消除住房供应链中的返工。提出了一个概念性框架，以确定各种技术对房屋供应链完全自动化的适用性，并促进减少建筑房屋供应链中的返工。所有权利归Diamond Congress Ltd.， Budapest, Hungary所有，除了作者有权在他们决定的任何地方(重新)发表他们的材料。这本书是2019年创意建设会议的工作材料
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A. Chassiakos, Marialena Koptsopoulou, S. P. Deligianni
The optimal allocation of resources is a critical factor for the successful implementation of construction projects since it ensures stability in the work execution. Resource allocation is a complex optimization analysis, especially when it comes to linear or repetitive projects. In such projects, the Line of Balance scheduling method is preferred to the CPM-based scheduling. This study aims at developing a multi-objective model for optimizing resource allocation in such type of projects under different objective criteria and problem constraints. The practical implications of each criterion in terms of project cost are considered to provide some guidance on what criterion may be more suitable under particular circumstances. The optimization is obtained through a genetic algorithm formulation implemented in a spreadsheet form and with the use of a commercial optimization software. Indicative evaluation results are presented on the basis of a case study and show that criteria involving as decision parameters the cumulative exceedance of resources above a given resource availability threshold or the total number of resource movements in and out of the project may be the most appropriate to simulate actual costs and provide effective resource allocation solutions.
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