Early Contractor Involvement in Design and Its Impact on Construction Schedule Performance

Knowledge management is rapidly becoming a key organizational capability for creating competitive advantage in the construction industry. The emergence of knowledge management as a key organizational capability for creating competitive advantage poses enormous challenges to executives of construction firms. This paper proposes a model for benchmarking the knowledge management practices of construction firms that can guide and assist construction business executives to meet these challenges. The proposed model incorporates benchmarking and knowledge management concepts with Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) and Comparative Performance Analysis (CPA) maps. The IPA and CPA maps are visual management tools that have been commonly used for continuous improvements in processes and the performance of firms. Yet they have not been used in the construction management literature or for evaluating the knowledge management practices. The proposed model can be used by construction firms as an internal performance measurement tool to evaluate their knowledge management practices. It can provide powerful diagnostic information to construction business executives of construction firms in order to evaluate their firm's knowledge management practices, identify their firm's comparative advantages and disadvantages with regard to each knowledge management practice, and set priorities for managerial actions related to knowledge management practices that need improvement. A real-world case study was conducted by administering a survey to 105 construction firms operating in Turkey and is presented to illustrate the implementation and utility of the proposed model.

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“…Public (Cha and O'Connor, 2006;Carrillo and Chinowsky, 2006;Hwang et al, 2008;Caldas et al, 2009;Song et al, 2009).…”

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A diagnostic model for assessing the knowledge management practices of construction firms

Kale

Karaman

2012

KSCE J Civ Eng

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“…The construction supply-chain needs to be responsive and flexible to accommodate the new changes. The involvement of the client in the project charts out the early contribution of suppliers and subcontractors for cost reduction (Song et al, 2009), which otherwise cannot be realised. The more involved the client is in the project, the better the project's waste control (Briscoe et al, 2004).…”

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An empirical examination of the procurement-led supply chain in the construction industry

Kamble¹,

Raut²,

Jagtap³

2017

IJPM

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Abstract:The mechanisms of supply chains are omnipresent, but procurementcentric supply-chain management has received little attention in the construction industry, despite its economic weight. A procurement centric construction supply chain requires client integration and contractor integration to cope with the project complexity and project uncertainty. In this regard, procurement-led supply-chain initiatives using mediated power and non-mediated power of the client organisation can influence contractor integration and project performance. A structural equation model consisting of two exogenous variables -mediated power and non-mediated power of clientand three endogenous variables -client integration, contractor integration and project performance -is developed based on theoretical support. The data are collected from 244 construction professionals working in a variety of construction projects across India. The result of the study suggests that, the use of mediated power by the client organisation accompanied by the involvement of the client in the project relates to the improving of project performance.Keywords: supply chain; procurement; integration; project performance; power.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Jagtap, M., Kamble, S.S. M. Jagtap et al.Sachin S. Kamble is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India is a leading academician, top industry consultant and researcher with rich experience in supply chain and operations management. He obtained his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering; Master degree in MBA; Doctorate degree in Business Management. His research area of expertise includes supply chain performance studies in several sectors that include -farm fresh products (agriculture supply chain), medical supply chain, construction, retail and automobile supply chains. He has co-authored more than 67 publications in international refereed journals such as

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“…In addition [41]presented a comprehensive review that "briefing provides strategic decisions, whereas design provides technical decisions and early design phase links strategic and technical decision". Construction contractor and FM can be included during early design stage to stay away from improper design decisions [7]. FM comments highlight mistakes and failures of previous design and give motivation to the designer for more errors free design generation [42].…”

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“…"Design-build practices" decrease constructability issues [6]. On the other study [7], ISSN (Print) : 2319-8613 ISSN (Online) : 0975-4024…”

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Towards a Framework to Integrate Facilities Management Cost Effective Parameters in Design Process

Islam¹,

Mohamed²,

Bjørberg³

et al. 2017

IJET

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-Facilities management (FM) has a significant growth since last two decades as a new and exciting profession that embraces many essential parts of the built environment. Emphasis on early involvement of FM in the design stage to deliver of an efficient building; which is easy and cost-effective to maintain for the occupants. Present days, maintainability turn into foremost concern and unprecedented challenges for the project team as building projects are getting much more complex and difficult. However, lack of considering FM at early design phase has become a potential issue to increase the operation and maintenance budget, premature aging and dilapidation. Thus, this paper explores the consideration of direct involvement of FM knowledge and experience in early design is found useful for the improvement of cost effectiveness in long term perspective, and subsequently the aim of this paper to investigate the impact of design issues towards easily-maintainable building projects at post-occupancy stage and providing the actual avenues to integrate FM in design development process. Therefore, a critical analysis of the literature has been carried out to identify the potential errors of design at post occupancy stage. The paper critically analyses the current approach of building design; and explore the contributions of FM knowledge during the design phase. Based on the study of literature, it has been established that majority of the maintenance issues at using stage is design originated problems; mainly architectural, structural, mechanical, HVAC, and plumbing and sanitary. The involvement of the FM knowledge and experience at design process will contribute to reduce major repairs and alterations in the lifespan of the building.Keyword -Facilities Management, Cost Parameters, Effectiveness, Design Process I. INTRODUCTION A holistic view of the topic facilities management (FM) has gradually developed as a new career over the past 15-20 years everywhere in the global and evolved into construction discipline since late 1980s [1]. It seems at reaching higher facility that is straightforward to run, maintain and manage. This new topic attempt to represent an elevated attention of the significance of the building operation and maintenance. This is avital part inside FM however the scope has emerged as broader and includes use of buildings in both the short and long term. FM is observed on the pre-operations level to peer how early involvement can create effective operations, reduce maintenance cost, end customers pleasure whilst also presenting higher facility that is good-looking and end user friendly. "FM at the design stage will add value to the facility by ensuring less "rework", emphasising value for money, efficient control of the team work". As a result, FM decisions in the early design stages of building projects are very important for enjoying long life better services in cost effective way. Numerous studies have attempted to explain that the early involvement of FM all through the design development a...

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Early Contractor Involvement in Design and Its Impact on Construction Schedule Performance

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A diagnostic model for assessing the knowledge management practices of construction firms

A diagnostic model for assessing the knowledge management practices of construction firms

An empirical examination of the procurement-led supply chain in the construction industry

Towards a Framework to Integrate Facilities Management Cost Effective Parameters in Design Process

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