Applicability of lean principles to construction might seem to require that construction’s differentiating characteristics be softened or explained away. This is the strategy employed by those who advocate making construction more like the manufacturing from which lean thinking originated. Following that line of thought, successive waves of implementation would leave ever smaller remainders tha...

Perhaps more than most industries, successful construction in the UK relies on effectively bringing together a diverse range of suppliers in what is often referred to as a ‘temporary-multi organization’. Relationships and integration between the organizations within this diverse and complex supply chain are difficult to form and maintain. Frequently, relationships degenerate and become acrimoni...

safety issues have always been put forward as one of the major problems and primary concerns in construction industries in many countries. this paper will focus on the impact of safety training on safety climate and its relevant factors in two sites of a construction firm. the health and safety executive (hse) guide to safety climate tool that had been validated in iran was used to determine th...

I. Miles The diversity of service activities means that service innovations and innovation processes take various forms. In this paper, we use input/output and other data to depict how service industries vary in such areas as products, markets, work organization, and technological characteristics—most being very distinctive from primary industries (i.e., extractive industries such as agricultur...

Purpose – Failure is encountered regularly within project-based industries and there has been research for decades into this phenomenon. Much of it has considered the failure of projects in terms of the classic project progress issues such as time, cost and quality. Using cases from two major industries the authors aim to develop a different understanding of project measurement criteria. This w...

Noise presents health and social problems in industrial operations, and is mainly related to machinery used in the industries. The present study was conducted in the different utilities industries in Jeddah Industrial Estate (JIE), in order to assess the magnitude of the problem of industrial noise exposure there in an endeavor to propose remedial controls to the problem. Noise was measured in ...

Prevalence of upper extremity disorders and their associations with psychosocial factors in the workplace have received more attention recently. A national survey of cross-sectional design was performed to determine the prevalence rates of upper extremity disorders among different industries. Trained interviewers administered questionnaires to 17,669 workers and data on musculoskeletal complain...

The architecture, engineering, construction and facility management (A/E/C-FM) industries have the opportunity to interoperate with software tools which utilise the IFC standard building information model (BIM). However, within the companies and projects which are currently using this standard there have been a number of issues raised with an impact on achievable interoperability. At the time t...

Specific informational problems are predominant in Process-to-Maintenance (P2M) processes of machine and plant construction industries. An integrated information infrastructure is required to reduce these deficits. Ambient technologies such as active ITelements and software agents offer the opportunity to design and realize a flexible information infrastructure that is used to coordinate all pr...

An integrated information system (ERP system) of 1 tourism industry is proposed in this paper for the management of the planning of Mt. Emei and the relative industries. The authors also demonstrate the advantages of ERP solution, including its construction and functional realization in detail. The fusion of much spatial information in the ERP system is discussed and a spatial integrated inform...