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,...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meanings of different terms related to productivity and to analyze the state of productivity in the Finnish construction industry at the macro level. This study reviews literature related to productivity and performance management; its aim is to form an understanding of prevailing habits and shortcomings. Based on a conducted macro level analysis, the...

A large-scale workplace-based suicide prevention and early intervention program was delivered to over 9,000 construction workers on building sites across Queensland. Intervention components included universal General Awareness Training (GAT; general mental health with a focus on suicide prevention); gatekeeper training provided to construction worker volunteer 'Connectors'; Suicide First Aid (A...

In 1980, each $1,000 . of contract cost for hospital construction generated an estimated 51 .4 hours of work, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey .' This means that each $1 billion spent on hospital construction in 1980 would have created 27,129 jobs-12,850 in the construction industry and 14,279 in industries which produce and deliver the materials, equipment, and supplies used in...

Since the middle of the 1990’s, the researchers and people within the construction industry have moved towards Supply Chain Management (SCM) philosophy in order to make construction industry more effective and more efficient. The main driver behind the adoption of this philosophy was the successes within other industry sectors. SCM can be defined as network of different organisations, linked up...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract An enterprise resource planning system is an information system and it is the recent solution of information technology. Now a day’s enterprise resource planning system offers many benefits to the manufacturing and construction industries. These en...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerbased tool used extensively to solve various engineering problems related to spatial data. In spite of growing popularity of GIS, its complete potential to construction industry has not been realized. In this paper, the summary of up-to-date work on spatial applications of GIS technologies in construction industry is presented. GIS technologies h...

Background: Rapid pace of the construction projects have led to safety negligence on the part of the contractors causing higher numbers of accidents in construction industry. Thus, over 2200 legal provisions have been established for the prevention of accidents on construction sites. Not only contractors are unable to implement all provisions, but also it is hard for regulatory bodies to implem...

This paper studies the added values, both qualitative and quantitative that can be gained by using mobile devices at a construction industry. Some pilots have already been made in the Finnish construction industry that involves the usage of mobile devices. The problem is still to locate the “bottlenecks” that the construction industry has and find a suitable mobile solution that could help in t...

The construction industry is responsible for one of the highest incidences of work-related accidents in Brazil, as well as in various other countries. In spite of the dissemination of prevention programs and the proposals for developing safety design for the construction industry, construction sites remain dangerous and unhealthy places. Recently, safety has been proposed to be considered from ...