Digital Measurement of Construction Performance: Data-to-dashboard Strategy

Murguia, Danny; Chen, Qian; Vuuren, Tercia Jansen Van; Rathnayake, Asitha; Vilde, Vladimir; Middleton, Campbell

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1101/9/092009

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“…Embracing information technology is another strategy for balancing ethics and efficiency in civil engineering. Increasingly, digital technologies are being used to improve project management and enhance decision-making processes (Alvarez Vásquez et al, 2018;Murguia et al, 2022). By LATAM Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Asunción, Paraguay.…”

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Balancing Ethics and Efficiency in Civil Engineering: Navigating Construction Challenges

Sornoza Parrales,

Eguez Morales,

Pincay Pilay

et al. 2023

LATAM

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La industria de la construcción juega un papel fundamental en el desarrollo y la sostenibilidad de la sociedad. Como tales, los ingenieros civiles enfrentan el desafío ético de equilibrar las prioridades en torno a la eficiencia y las responsabilidades sociales más amplias. Este artículo revisa la literatura académica para identificar los dilemas éticos clave que enfrentan los ingenieros civiles y las estrategias para abordarlos. Los desafíos éticos incluyen la adaptación al cambio climático, la consideración de las necesidades de la sociedad, el mantenimiento de la conducta profesional y el mantenimiento del ritmo de los avances tecnológicos. Cumplir con los códigos de ética profesional ayuda a guiar a los ingenieros civiles a priorizar el bienestar público sobre los intereses de las partes interesadas. Las estrategias para equilibrar la ética y la eficiencia incluyen priorizar los principios de sostenibilidad, la alineación del comportamiento del consumidor, adoptar la tecnología de la información, integrar la educación ética en el plan de estudios de ingeniería civil y una gestión eficiente de los recursos. En última instancia, los ingenieros civiles deben esforzarse por tomar decisiones éticas que contribuyan positivamente a la sociedad y el medio ambiente. El documento enfatiza que la ética conduce a una mayor eficiencia y sostenibilidad a largo plazo. La investigación adicional podría investigar los impactos de las tecnologías emergentes y los beneficios de priorizar la ética en diferentes contextos culturales.

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Balancing Ethics and Efficiency in Civil Engineering: Navigating Construction Challenges

Sornoza Parrales,

Eguez Morales,

Pincay Pilay

et al. 2023

LATAM

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“…A newly proposed solution to address the productivity challenges in construction management is Digital Twin Construction (DTC), which aims to leverage real-time data from site monitoring technologies for accurate as-built information and efficient planning, production, safety, and productivity optimisation (Sacks et al, 2020). The successful implementation of DTC requires simultaneous analysis of planned and actual data including programme and production plans as well as production rates and labour utilisation (Murguia et al, 2022). However, one challenge lies in measuring labour utilisation in critical activities while accounting for unproductive time caused by suboptimal construction flows due to poor planning and logistics.…”

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A case study on the implementation of location tracking technologies for productivity monitoring: understanding workers’ acceptance and socio-technical implications

Murguia,

Urbina,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Front. Built Environ.

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Automated real-time data collection is becoming more prevalent in construction, with workers’ location data being a pivotal component in detecting poor logistics and inefficient construction flows. However, the collection of location data for productivity monitoring raises significant concerns about privacy and wellbeing implications for workers. Implementing such technological solutions requires an understanding of how humans may respond to sensor-based automated data collection, making this a socio-technical issue. This study identifies the drivers of construction workers’ acceptance of radio-based location tracking technology for productivity measurement using a modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and offers a sociotechnical understanding of technology acceptance with implications for managing how new technologies are introduced on construction projects. Using a large residential project in Lima, Peru as a case study, construction workers were monitored using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, and data were gathered using mixed methods. A k-means clustering analysis showed two forms of acceptance among workers: supporters (37%) and acceptance with reservations (63%). Partial least squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) results showed that perceived usefulness and perceived stress underpinned workers’ attitudes and intention to accept the technology. Perceived privacy risk, however, emerged as the sole most significant predictor at the end of the monitoring process. Findings further suggest that workers’ acceptance of the technology is influenced by the perception that it is also beneficial for safety management. Building on the preceding, the paper highlights the need for employee orientation focused on addressing perceived privacy concerns by leveraging positive perceptions about using monitoring technologies for improving onsite safety, logistics and productivity. This requires management of construction firms to develop narratives that reflect their goals for rolling out technologies in ways that ensure workers’ buy-in, and a re-focus on problem framing and collective approaches to identifying functional and less intrusive forms of monitoring technologies.

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“…Furthermore, the capture, integration, processing, and analysis of work data to measure productivity, performance, and work categories, among others, is a challenge for construction companies [ 14 , 15 ].…”

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Framework for Integrating Productive, Contributory, and Noncontributory Work with Safe and Unsafe Acts and Conditions

Brioso

Calderon-Hernandez

2023

IJERPH

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It is common for companies that are in the process of implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) journey to attempt an increase in productive work and a reduction in waste, such as contributory and noncontributory work. Even though the LPS has proven to have a synergy with the health and safety requirements, companies with deficient health and safety management systems tend to classify work involving substandard acts or conditions as standard, and then pretend to benchmark against other companies that are indeed performing safe work. The following work introduces a framework to simultaneously register and analyze productive, contributory, and noncontributory work, with the substandard acts and conditions in a construction site, allowing for the measurement of production and health & safety indicators simultaneously. In the absence of technology that automatically captures these indicators, it is proposed that simultaneous measurements be made through direct inspections and photo and video recording by means of a handheld camera. The proposed continuous improvement framework follows the steps indicated below: (1) defining the productive, contributory, and noncontributory work with surveys performed on the most representative stakeholders of the industry; (2) proposing a new classification of production and safety work; (3) assessing the level of application of the LPS in the company; (4) measuring the indicators; (5) improving the use of the LPS and performing new measurements; (6) statistically linking deadly, serious, and minor accidents, standard and substandard acts, standard and substandard conditions, and productive, contributory, and noncontributory work. This framework was applied to a case study of a building project in Lima and the results were improved simultaneous indicators, especially the health and safety indicators. Automated classification of productive and nonproductive work using technology still represents a challenge.

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Digital Measurement of Construction Performance: Data-to-dashboard Strategy

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Balancing Ethics and Efficiency in Civil Engineering: Navigating Construction Challenges

Balancing Ethics and Efficiency in Civil Engineering: Navigating Construction Challenges

A case study on the implementation of location tracking technologies for productivity monitoring: understanding workers’ acceptance and socio-technical implications

Framework for Integrating Productive, Contributory, and Noncontributory Work with Safe and Unsafe Acts and Conditions

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