Construction Planning, Programming and Control

Cooke, Brian; Williams, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14293-4

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“…It involves interaction between specialists, moving information between those with information and those, who find information useful (Egbu and Robinson 2005). Planning is the process of setting goals, designing strategies, outlining tasks and schedules to accomplish the goals (Cooke and Williams 2005). The analysis of organisational effectiveness using the competing values was aided by identifying 34 attributes from the literature.…”

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Organizational Effectiveness of Ugandan Building Firms as Viewed by Craftsmen

Alinaitwe

Mwakali

Hansson

2009

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Abstract. Construction industries, especially those in developing countries, face the problems of low productivity. It comes about partly due to organizational ineffectiveness. The major attributes of organizational effectiveness are identified from literature. Means to achieving greater organization effectiveness and higher productivity are identified under the major headings of cohesion and morale of workers, adaptability, information communication, and planning. Using a structured questionnaire survey on building craftsmen in Uganda, results suggest that most workers are not satisfied with the financial reward, level of status is not able to achieve personal goals. Workers are not satisfied with the level of training. The variables are weak points in organizational effectiveness. In addition, workers are not satisfied with the level of participation in decision-making. There is a need to dwell on these grey areas in order to improve the organizational effectiveness of building firms, especially in developing countries.

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Organizational Effectiveness of Ugandan Building Firms as Viewed by Craftsmen

Alinaitwe

Mwakali

Hansson

2009

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…This process related to handling, distribution and usage of materials [30,31]. Within this task, material control is affected by the degree of the information technology used as the information technology has the ability to optimize this process [2,24].…”

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“…It is an essence of a construction contract, hence most of the contract have a similar provision about completion time and clearly stated in it [30]. Therefore, it is important for construction project completed on time.…”

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A Review on Implication of Material Management to Project Performance

Jusoh

Kasim

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Abstract. Material management is an important element in project management as materials contribute a major portion to total project cost. It also plays a key role because of the successes of every construction project rely on having proper resources. Thus, it gives implication on project performance. Despite the importance of material management to project performance, there are limited numbers of research available related to this topic. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify the effects factors of material management on project performance. Literature from books, journal articles and conferences papers related to this topic are reviewed. In conclusion, exploring the implication of material management towards project performance will benefit construction players in improving the efficiency of material management in order to minimize the impacts on construction projects performance.

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“…It is necessary to define the most important activities, key terms of their implementation and the order of their execution [2].…”

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Estimation Of Task Completion Times With The Use Of The PERT Method On The Example Of A Real Construction Project

Plebankiewicz

Juszczyk

Malara

2015

Archives of Civil Engineering

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The article presents briefly several methods of working time estimation. However, three methods of task duration assessment have been selected to investigate working time in a real construction project using the data collected from observing workers laying terrazzo flooring in staircases. The first estimation has been done by calculating a normal and a triangular function. The next method, which is the focus of greatest attention here, is PERT. The article presents a way to standardize the results and the procedure algorithm allowing determination of the characteristic values for the method. Times to perform every singular component sub-task as well as the whole task have been defined for the collected data with the reliability level of 85%. The completion time of the same works has also been calculated with the use of the KNR. The obtained result is much higher than the actual time needed for execution of the task calculated with the use of the previous method. The authors argue that PERT is the best method of all three, because it takes into account the randomness of the entire task duration and it can be based on the actual execution time known from research.

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Construction Planning, Programming and Control

Cited by 63 publications

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Organizational Effectiveness of Ugandan Building Firms as Viewed by Craftsmen

Organizational Effectiveness of Ugandan Building Firms as Viewed by Craftsmen

A Review on Implication of Material Management to Project Performance

Estimation Of Task Completion Times With The Use Of The PERT Method On The Example Of A Real Construction Project

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