abstract project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of occupational health and safety (ohs) risks. this imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of ohs within project teams. difficulties on ohs regularly came about in the construction i...

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the choice of green office space by commercial tenants. We analyze the decisions of more than 11,000 tenants to choose office space in green buildings or in otherwise comparable non-green buildings located nearby. We formulate six propositions to explain why specific firms and industries may be more likely to lease green space. We test these ...

BACKGROUND Individual and organizational factors are the factors influencing traumatic occupational injuries. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was the short path analysis of the severity of occupational injuries based on individual and organizational factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present cross-sectional analytical study was implemented on traumatic occupational injuries within a...

Innovation of construction technologies have been slow compared with other industries due to lack of fast innovation tools and systematic approach. This paper presents the preliminary result of a recent work on development of fast innovation method for construction technologies, namely Systematic Technology Innovation Procedure (STIP), in Chung Hua University, Taiwan. The proposed STIP method f...

Construction workers globally face disproportionate threats to health and wellbeing, constituted by the nature of the work they perform. The workplace fatalities and lost-time injuries experienced by construction workers are significantly greater than in other forms of work. This paper draws on the culture-centered approach (CCA) to dialogically articulate meanings of workplace risks and injuri...

Inter-enterprise collaboration to deliver a one-of-a-kind product is gaining momentum with the emergence of new information and communications technologies (ICT) to support information exchange and collaborative work amongst distinct geographically dispersed entities. Typically, the modus operandi of such collaborations is that of the virtual enterprise. While relatively new to some industries,...

Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is a common problem among workers. In spite of the numerous reports on MSD in various specific groups of workers, few data on the prevalence in the general working population are available except for back pain. We analyzed the information collected through a nationwide survey in Taiwan in 1994 to estimate the prevalence of MSD by age, gender, and education level a...

The Tenth District economy improved overall during 1993 thanks to a booming construction sector and healthy growth in services. The district’s gain was uneven, however, because other major sectors of the region’s economy remained mixed. The agricultural and mining sectors were flat, while manufacturing continued to struggle. Economic performance diverged considerably across the seven district s...

Although under-reporting of work-related injuries by workers is recognized as a significant problem in construction and other industries, little is known about the specific reasons for such occurrences. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in this study to (a) identify reasons why construction workers may choose not to report work-related injuries, and (b) to investigate the frequency...