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DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.69
title: PATRICK STEVEDORES? CLIENT-SIDE PROJECTMANAGEMENT AT PORT BOTANY RAMP D

description: Patrick Stevedores? Port Botany Container Terminal is located 10km south of the city of Sydney, NSW, Australia. The Terminal is currently undertaking the challenging process of expansion and automation while causing minimal impact to existing operations. This $350 million project includes the automation of the container straddles. As part of the Port Botany Terminal upgrade, a new entrance over the existing rail sidings has been created called Ramp D. Ramp D had to be open to traffic by April 2014 to not delay the commencement of automated straddle operations planned to commence in July 2014. This resulted in a tight construction schedule. With a congested and shared construction site the options for accelerating the programme were limited. As the client?s representative, the role was to facilitate the execution of the project. By careful scheduling, the use of extended working hours to reduce the critical path, and close cooperation by all stakeholders, the target was met.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.70
title: INTERNATIONAL JOINT OPERATIONORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE DESIGNS OF INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

description: This paper analyzes various international joint operation organization (IJO) structure designs of infrastructure projects in Indonesia. Organization structures of important infrastructure projects are studied. Surveys are conducted to collect primary and secondary data that also include interviews with key persons in each project?s management team. The results show that both integrated and non-integrated joint operation organizations exist in these infrastructure construction projects. The organization structure adopted depends on the type of the project, complexity of the construction, and type of joint operation agreements between partners. Authority distribution in each type of organization structure is also studied. In some cases, a shift in organization structures happened. It is revealed that more complicated construction projects mostly adopt a non-integrated IJO organization where the foreign partners have the responsibility to execute high technology construction parts. The position of General Manager in the two IJO organization types is mostly held by a foreign partner officer.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.71
title: SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION BARRIERS INCONSTRUCTION: VIEWS FROM TWO SOUTHAFRICAN PROJECTS

description: The fragmented state of the construction industry is a global phenomenon visible in South African construction. The number of parties to a construction project has been on the upward trend in recent times. This increase in the number of members of a typical construction supply chain is invariably accompanied by an increase in management complexity. To counter the pitfalls of such complexities, the discipline has witnessed the proliferation of supply chain management (SCM) concepts of which integration is a notable aspect. Based on a succinct conceptual framework that was derived from the construction SCM literature, this paper reports on barriers to supply chain integration. A questionnaire was distributed among the participants of two South African projects. The responses indicate that lack of integration is partly responsible for performance-related failures in the form of rework and defects. Moreover, poor payment mechanisms between contractors, their subcontractors, and suppliers tend to work against nurturing long-term relationships on a project and business basis. The conclusion is that there is major scope for promoting a collaborative working approach between supply chain partners in South African construction.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.72
title: COLLABORATIVE ENGINEERING FORSUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS ASSISTED BYVIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION

description: The paper outlines a decision-support environment that actively supports collaboration during decision making and problem solving. A complementary partnership was formed between computer agents and human agents; one brought selected intelligence to the solution process from ?unlimited? multi-domain knowledge sources, the other brought human cognitive rationality. In particular, the proposed system articulated how domain knowledge and know-how can be shared, thereby creating a truly integrated construction team. The author?s investigation measured the views of practitioners in the main building professions?architecture, engineering and construction management?before proposing the decision support system. The conclusion of the work is a conceptual model: a definition of the contractors? construction management computer agents, and a specification based on scenarios of how these agents would interact with design agents. The significance of Virtual Design and Integrated Project Delivery are also discussed in the context of improved collaboration on the construction project.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.73
title: IDENTIFICATION OF THE KEY FACTORS FORACCURATE LIFE-CYCLE COST ESTIMATION FOR CONSTRUCTION

description: A major limitation of Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) estimation/prediction modelling is the current typical reliance only on those factors that can be readily quantified and come easily to hand. While estimation of the cost of the most common labor, material and plant resources receive consideration because of their high visibility factor, there are several non-cost factors (low visibility factors) affecting the estimate that are often overlooked and, it is argued here, require equal consideration in estimation processes that seek optimum accuracy. Unfortunately, such (low-visibility) factors are neglected or ignored by current prediction models. Identification of these non-cost factors (low visibility factors) affects LCC estimate accuracy and can improve estimation process confidence. This paper critically reviews secondary research on identification of these important non-cost factors and subsequently determines their influence on the accuracy level(s) of construction cost estimation.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.74
title: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON FALL PROTECTIONDURING BRIDGE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT WORKS ON FRP INSPECTION PLATFORM

description: Accidents from falls are a serious problem in the construction industry in Japan, where approximately 40% of fatal construction accidents are caused by falls. FRP inspection platforms are used for fall protection during bridge maintenance and management works. These structural elements are usually set on the side of an abutment for the inspection of the joint located between the abutment and a bridge girder. The hook of a safety belt is then fastened onto the guardrail of a platform when work is executed at a high location. Nevertheless, the degree of platform safety remains uncertain because of the properties of the FRP platform. In this study, therefore, the safety of a platform was experimentally confirmed through the use of 75- and 85-kg sandbags and a 100-kg human dummy. Results show that platform safety improved, as indicated by the sandbags remaining firmly attached to the hook latched onto a platform railing when they were dropped during the experiment.
DOI: 10.25721/5qmr-0f62
title: Air de Plélauff (Marche vannetaise?)
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.75
title: SCP VS. SOP: MANAGING H&S ON A CONSTRUCTION SITE

description: The main objective of the paper is to suggest proposals likely to facilitate the relationship between the Client and the Contractor/Subcontractors, in order to improve the management of the construction phases with regard to Health & Safety (H&S). It is based on field research in the context of Italian construction. The paper analyzes and compares the content of two documents: The Safety and Coordination Plan (SCP) and the Safety Operational Plan (SOP), with the intent of implementing them in an integrated system managing H&S on construction sites. The comparative analysis recommends several improvements and the optimization of relationships between Client and Contractor, fostering a climate of cooperation and an optimum management of H&S within the construction site.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.76
title: PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY TRAINING FOR THE SAFETY ENGINEER

description: The knowledge acquired through university courses is an important aspect of training for technicians who will address issues related to building-site safety. They must become aware of their social role characterizing the profession of safety manager. Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria started a course on the safety of construction sites more than 15 years ago, first at the Faculty of Architecture, later at the Faculty of Engineering. The activity on health and safety management has also been the subject of several meetings and symposia. Together, with trade unions and businesses, they have given rise to synergy resulting in the 2010 ratification of an agreement protocol with National Institute of Accident at Work (INAIL). The first initiative launched last year was the first-level master?s degree on the management of health and safety in temporary sites. This paper features some of the achievements and new training opportunities targeting the various operators engaged in the business of training in the workplace.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.77
title: LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENT ANDMANAGEMENT HEALTH AND SAFETY INMAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION SITES

description: When considering the maintenance of buildings, the implementation of legislative codes for health and safety requires particular attention as early as in the design approach. Statistics indicate that accidents often occur during maintenance operations. The organization of the maintenance yard requires specific safety measures, which often depend on the choices related to the design and construction of a building. European Directive 57/1992 indicates that ?the architectural and/or organizational measures are not enough. A poor design frequently causes work-related accidents in construction sites with significant damage to the community.? This statement, dating back 22 years, is still valid in Europe today. The introduction of the obligation to draw up the Safety File, to manage safety in the maintenance tasks of the building life cycle, is still valid. This paper refers to the maintenance tasks programmed by ensuring safety conditions. Particular focus is on the individuation of the types of risks in relation to design. The design choices, likewise, are made in order to have an effective plan of health and safety for the workers. The preventive identification of the most common natural risks, and the application of practice codes related to maintenance programs, are the most important strategic choices to ensure safety in interventions deferred over time.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.78
title: OBJECT-ORIENTATED HAZARD ANALYSIS INBUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

description: Safety planning, as well as planning for hazards and risks in building construction projects, are mostly carried out on paper-based 2D plans. There are various methods, such as safety analysis and risk assessment, which can be applied to improve the health and safety of construction workers. Safety planning needs to be integrated into the design and planning phase. Building models are made in 3D; the challenge is to connect both to a single model. This paper solves this problem by carrying out a hazard analysis for collecting and formalizing basis data, and then integrating the calculated results into a 3Dbuilding model. Therefore, the advantage is that a knowledge base can be obtained for all project participants, who can quickly access the risks and hazards connected to their respective buildings.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.79
title: BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)ROLES IN THE MALAYSIAN CONSTRUCTIONINDUSTRY

description: Building Information Modeling (BIM) represents a new paradigm in the Malaysian architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. BIM technology provides virtual models (including 3-D models) to generate a building?s entire lifecycle. The model can also be used for analyzing design clashes, project scheduling, cost estimation, and facility management. The use of BIM in construction projects can reduce time to develop a project, reduce construction cost, and increase project quality. This paper aims to explore roles of BIM in the Malaysian construction industry. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with project consultants and BIM consultants involved in two government projects. The projects were the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Malaysia and Sultan Ibrahim Hall (formerly known as the Multipurpose Hall of Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, or UTHM). The interviews revealed effects of BIM in both projects and potential improvement in implementing BIM in construction projects in Malaysia. A literature review and the interviews revealed that BIM is increasingly used and accepted by construction players in Malaysia, and is expected to grow in future.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.80
title: USE OF BIM TOOLS FOR SITE LAYOUTPLANNING

description: Building Information Model (BIM) has a wide range of applications and benefits that can help in communicating a large amount of information of the entire project lift cycle. BIM allows for 4D construction sequencing and scheduling through visual simulation. This paper demonstrates how BIM tools can be used for construction site layout planning and simulation. A methodology framework is developed to create the workflow necessary for the planning. Bentley's AECOsim Building Designer V8i was used as a modelling tool. Available on-line 3D models were sourced and collected for the simulation. In the process, shortcomings, or lack of BIM tools specific for Site Layout Planning, were identified. It is hoped that this research could lead to further development of BIM software aimed at supporting the construction industry.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.81
title: ICT BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTING BIM IN THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

description: Advances in Information Communication Technology (ICT) have led to the development of more advanced computer management systems in the Australian construction industry, including Building Information Modelling (BIM). BIM is an ICT-enabled approach involving digital representations of building elements and information related to different phases of the building lifecycle, and is used to provide shared information and to form a reliable basis for decision making. Pilot projects and research papers have verified many claims about BIM, and prove a viable economic case, yet uptake of the technology still remains low. A literature review revealed three key productivity gains experienced by BIM use on a construction project: accuracy, communication and time/performance. Four ICT barriers to its implementation were identified as interoperability, funding and resource cost, cultural barriers and perceived risk, and security and protection. Findings on research done on these barriers in Australia reveal that many companies see the benefits for BIM, but believe other disciplines and the client should implement the model. Construction professionals usually work within their field of expertise, with limited interaction with other disciplines, even though many issues on work sites require collaboration from multiple disciplines. A common medium of communication, provided by BIM systems, will achieve this integrated building approach. This paper finds that ICT barriers prevent the Australian construction industry from taking full advantage of potential productivity gains proven in BIM.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.82
title: THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT?S INITIATIVEIN USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

description: Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly being implemented in the construction industry to produce data-rich models of buildings and structures. BIM was introduced to the Malaysian construction industry by the Public Works Department (PWD) in 2007. Since then, the Malaysian government has taken initiatives to promote BIM in construction projects. This paper aims to explore those initiatives in promoting and encouraging construction players to use BIM. A semi-structured interview was conducted with the Head of BIM Unit Projects, PWD, to explore BIM initiatives made by PWD. It revealed several initiatives have been carried out by PWD, which could increase the use of BIM in the construction projects.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.83
title: TECHNOLOGICAL AND SPATIAL FLEXIBILITYFOR NEW HOME DESIGNING

description: One of the main problems of home design is that, of all technological systems, it is the most at risk of becoming technically or functionally obsolete. This is partly due to the fact that interventions on housing construction have oriented themselves toward the Optimal Point logic Design (OPD), which has the single goal of living in the more traditional sense of the term, therefore eliminating all possibilities that do not comply with those specific features. Once removed, the results become rigid towards new tasks. It is obvious that in the building sector, the inability to handle the uncertainty of social and economic contexts, the changing needs of users, and the environment, makes the system obsolete and reduces its useful life. If flexibility is the ability of a system to be easily modified and to respond to changes in the environment in a timely and convenient manner, then flexibility can be considered an antidote to obsolescence. This paper provides a critical assessment of the implementation of flexibility starting on four lines of action for design flexibility in homes: Spatial flexibility with constant surface, spatial evolutionary flexibility, technological flexibility relating to construction techniques, and technological flexibility concerning the plant maintainability. This research therefore proposes that project strategies incorporate these factors aimed at ensuring the survival over time of the building, implementing its cycles of use, and reconfiguring the internal structure to intervene in a simplified way regarding the technological system that governs the space.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.84
title: DESIGNING FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE TOHINDER FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICALOBSOLESCENCE

description: Time, uncertainty, flexibility and resilience are the four sides of the same square around which this paper revolves. Hallmark of all complex systems is uncertainty, seen as the lack of full knowledge of current or future evolution of a system. There are various types and sources of uncertainty, but notably the incorrect knowledge of the environment in which a system operates determines the technological obsolescence and functionality of the system. Systems that have the longest life span are able to cope with the unpredictability of their contexts, while rigid and unchanging systems have a shorter lifespan. Uncertainty, traditionally seen as a negative aspect of a system, must therefore be regarded as an opportunity, an incentive to design flexible systems able to absorb changes in the environment in which they operate, in order to create added value for users. The development of ?advanced? systems able to prevent that uncertainty generates diseases, commonly referred to as ?risks?. This is not new; the selection process of species of Darwin, or the reflections on the life of capital goods of Terborgh, have shown that there are living organisms, human artifacts or resilient complex systems that are better equipped to adapt to changing environments, compared to the rigid systems incapable of reacting to change. In other words, flexibility reduces the exposure of a project uncertainty, provides a solution to mitigate market risks, and also mitigates risks associated with technological obsolescence. Flexibility makes the system resilient, able to absorb shocks and/or disturbances without undergoing major alterations in its functional organization, structure, or identity characteristics. In this paper flexibility is seen as a fundamental property for designing a generally complex system.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.85
title: DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM TO VALIDATE AND CERTIFY EQUIPMENT AND TECHNICIANS FOR UNDERGROUND PIPE INSPECTION

description: Storm water delivery systems are an integral part of transportation construction projects. Pipe placement is costly and time consuming, and when a system fails, the costs associated with repairing and replacing the system are significantly greater because of the existing infrastructure often built above the pipe. Several state departments of transportation in the U.S. have standard specifications for the inspection of newly-installed pipe, but no Department of Transportation has standardized operator training for laser profiling or closed-circuit television (CCTV) pipe inspection. This is significant because state-of-the-art systems for underground pipe inspection currently utilizes these two technologies. Likewise, standards do not exist for the certification of systems or operators for CCTV, laser profiling, or other technologies. Within this report are the findings of an ongoing project funded by the Florida Department of Transportation. This paper reports on pipe inspection in the U.S., the development of a field test for laser- and CCTV-based inspection systems, and practical exams for prospective operators of certified systems used in the inspection of underground pipe construction.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.86
title: THE SCIENCE OF COPYEDITING: AN ANALYSIS OF REVISION RATES IN ISEC SUBMISSIONS

description: Copyeditors are under-recognized for their contributions to the publishing world. Through complex editorial processes outlined in this paper, copyeditors quietly shepherd researchers? work into the academic world by making their research more readable. This paper analyzes ASEA-SEC-2 submission successes and failures, pointing out trends behind acceptances and Requests For Revisions (RFRs) before publication. The findings reveal that the ISEC Copyeditor?s work generally went beyond cosmetic edits: Nearly half of the papers that reached the Copyeditor had to be returned to authors. A significant number of those RFRs were due to general violations of ISEC Guidelines (e.g., excessive page length, illegible illustrations, and lack of citations) that should have been returned to authors before they reached the Copyeditor. If contributors (and ISEC editors) had paid more attention to guidelines, many man-hours of labor would have been saved, and their research disseminated into the scientific community more efficiently and cost-effectively. This paper aims to increase awareness in the enormity of the task behind copyediting for conference articles, in hopes that contributors will cooperate more closely with (and editors more strictly enforce) journal guidelines in future.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.87
title: DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF GREENWAVE ENERGY CONVERTER FOR SHALLOW WATERS

description: This paper describes the structural design and construction of the oscillating water column ?greenWAVE Energy Converter?, constructed during 2013 and planned to be deployed in shallow water off the South Australian coast in 2014. Rated initially at 1 MW, the greenWAVE unit will be dedicated to electricity production, although an option is available to also produce desalinated seawater. The unit base is constructed from reinforced concrete designed to international maritime codes, and will be founded in approximately 10-15m of water. The upper portion of the device extends above sea level, housing the airwave turbine and electrical control systems.