Benchmarking in Construction Industry

Fisher, Deborah J.; Miertschin, Susan; Pollock, David R.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0742-597x(1995)11:1(50)

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“…• Benchmarking: Benchmarking is "a process of continuously measuring and comparing an organization's business process against business leaders anywhere in the world to identify, measure, compare, perform gap analysis, adapt and implement new ideas so that the organization can take action for the improvement its performance" [19,35,38,42,43]". (cited from [1, pp.…”

Section: Lean Tools and Construction Phasesmentioning

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Lean and Agile Construction Project Management: As a Way of Reducing Environmental Footprint of the Construction Industry

Sertyeşilışık

2014

Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering

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Construction industry effects the environment through its outputs and its process (i.e. causing CO 2 emissions, exploitation of raw materials, energy consumption). There is need to reduce its environmental footprint of the construction industry with the help of efficient and effective construction project management, where possible benchmarking with management principles and applications in manufacturing industry. Such a key concept originated and adapted from manufacturing industry is lean and agile construction which can contribute to the reduction of environmental footprint of the construction industry, enabling especially reduction in waste, increasing value added activities. For this reason, this chapter focuses on the construction project management with respect to the agility and leanness perspective. It provides an indepth analysis of the whole project life cycle phases based on lean and agile principles.

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Section: Lean Tools and Construction Phasesmentioning

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Lean and Agile Construction Project Management: As a Way of Reducing Environmental Footprint of the Construction Industry

Sertyeşilışık

2014

Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering

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“…Um dos princípios básicos da qualidade total consiste no constante aperfeiçoamento de processos sistêmicos para atingir eficiências cada vez mais primorosas (OSWALD; BURATI, 1992;FISHER et al, 1995).…”

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O Uso Do Cim E a Difusão Das Ideias No Campo Das Políticas Públicas No Setor Do Gerenciamento Das Cidades

Cavalcanti¹,

Souza²

2015

Anais Do VII Encontro De Tecnologia De Informação E Comunicação Na Construção - Edificações, Infra-Estrutura E Cidade: Do BIM A

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ResumoA difusão de ideias no campo das políticas públicas tem sido amplamente investigada nas últimas décadas como forma de analisar como as políticas são formuladas; quem são os principais atores envolvidos (direta e indiretamente) e como as decisões para implementação de programas urbanos são realizadas. Nesse sentido, este artigo discute o tema da difusão abordando duas questões centrais: 1) A difusão de ideias na área de tecnologia da informação para a ações na escala urbana, examinando o caso do City Information Modelling (CIM) e, 2) O uso do CIM como ferramenta e os meios de difusão através da produção de políticas urbanas que buscam a melhoria da qualidade no gerenciamento das cidades. Para isto, o trabalho revisa de forma crítica a literatura internacional sobre difusão no campo da tecnologia da informação e no campo das políticas públicas. A relevância deste trabalho se dá pela busca da análise deste campo do conhecimento que cada dia mais aproxima a tecnologia de informação e o gerenciamento de cidades, mas que, para isto precisa passar pela esfera da produção, difusão e implementação de políticas públicas. Palavras-chave: Difusão de políticas públicas. Tecnologia da informação. CIM. AbstractThe diffusion of ideas in the field of public policy has been widely investigated in recent decades as a way to analyze how policies are made; who are the main actors involved (directly and indirectly) and how decisions for implementing urban programs are carried out. Therefore, this article discusses the topic of diffusion addressing two key questions: 1) The dissemination of ideas in the information technology area for actions in urban scale, examining the case of City Information Modelling (CIM) and, 2) The use CIM as a tool and means of delivery for the production of urban policies. Therefore, the paper critically reviews the international literature on diffusion in the field of information technology and in the field of public policy. The relevance of this work consists in the search for analysis of this field towards the production of knowledge that brings together information technology and management of cities, but in order to achieve this, they must go through the sphere of production, dissemination and implementation of public policies.

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“…Since that time, the field has grown rapidly and touched nearly every industry, including the construction industry. [4], the effectiveness ofpre-project planning [103] and other applications [89,130,151].…”

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An Evaluation of Public Construction Contracting Methods for the Public Building Sector in Oregon using Data Envelopment Analysis

Williams¹,

Herman²

2000

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When applied to parking structure projects CM/GC PDS results in projects that outperform DBB PDS projects. H A3. 7 : When applied to building remodel projects CM/GC PDS results in projects that outperform DBB PDS projects. H A3. a : When applied to school projects CM/GC PDS results in projects that outperform DBB PDS projects. HA3.9: When applied to sports facility projects CM/GC PDS results in projects that outperform DBB PDS projects. H03: CM/GC PDS does not result in projects that outperform DBB PDS on similar types of projects. (Note the sub-hypotheses of the null hypothesis H03 are omitted for brevity.) 3 1.2 Research Design and Data Collection How is "outperformed" determined? Or, more generally, how is performance determined, what measures are used, and where does the required information come from? Clearly, performance can be defined in a number ofways and use any number ofmetrics or measures. Sanvido [182] Chua [47, 48] and others have laid some of the groundwork by providing critical project success factors, while Knuf, [123] Harma, [104] Russell, [177] and others have contributed benchmarking metrics. These can be thought of as inputs and outputs to a construction project management model. However, the number of metrics and measures provided in the literature is quite large, and therefore only the most important measures must be separated out from those oflesser importance for this analysis. The process undertaken in this research started with assembling a panel of construction industry experts (referred to hereafter as the Expert Panel), which is detailed in Chapter 3. Metrics were elicited from the Expert Panel consistent with methods described by Ayyub [13], Chua [48] and Kocaoglu [124]. Data was obtained on a 407 public projects constructed in Oregon from 1986 to 2002 (the "Oregon database"). One hundred and ninety-two of the projects either did not meet the criteria for the analysis or had significant missing data, which made them unusable in the model. Two hundred and fifteen projects were used in the final DEA model and analysis. These were nearly equally distributed between competitive lunlP sum Design-Bid-Build (DBB) and negotiated Construction Manager/General Contractor

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Benchmarking in Construction Industry

Cited by 46 publications

References 2 publications

Lean and Agile Construction Project Management: As a Way of Reducing Environmental Footprint of the Construction Industry

Lean and Agile Construction Project Management: As a Way of Reducing Environmental Footprint of the Construction Industry

O Uso Do Cim E a Difusão Das Ideias No Campo Das Políticas Públicas No Setor Do Gerenciamento Das Cidades

An Evaluation of Public Construction Contracting Methods for the Public Building Sector in Oregon using Data Envelopment Analysis

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