Leveraging Blockchain for Scaffolding Work Management in Construction

Proofs of Work for Blockchain Protocols

One of the most impactful applications of proofs of work (POW) currently is in the design of blockchain protocols such as Bitcoin. Yet, despite the wide recognition of POWs as the fundamental cryptographic tool in this context, there is no known cryptographic formulation that implies the security of the Bitcoin blockchain protocol. Indeed, all previous works formally arguing the security of the...

Reasons for applying innovations for scaffolding work.

In this paper reasons for applying and for not applying technical and organisational innovations in scaffolding work are studied. In a participatory ergonomic approach these innovations were developed to reduce problems concerning physical load of scaffolders. In this study reasons for the adoption of the innovations in the scaffolding sector are evaluated in 2 studies, in 48 companies. More th...

Scaffolding Crowd Work

Time Management in Drafting Probability Schedules for Construction Work

The risk of untimely performance of work is a negative phenomenon, whose neutralization needs adequate control methods. The current publications on this subject deal mostly with the methodological aspects and do not answer the key question – which specific mechanism can be used to predict the untimeliness in terms of quantity. For the systematic analysis of the issue we use the techniques of ma...

KASIMIR - Work process embedded task management leveraging the Semantic Desktop

The effectiveness of semantic applications can be increased significantly if the system does not urge the users to take care of explicit semantic annotation creation. Today, semantic annotation creation is a well known bottleneck in semantic applications for enterprises. On the other hand semantic technologies have already proven to facilitate, e.g., a more efficient information management espe...