ABSTRACT: With the advent of precast construction technology, the construction industry has seen a rapid change in the way structures are built. Precast construction has brought down project costs and durations, increased the predictability and improved the quality of construction. It has also resulted in a shift in construction tasks from the construction site to the factory floor. Precast ele...

In materials science, one of the new concerns in the construction industry, it is well established that mineral dust from rocks (stones) has adverse effects on human health. For instance, it is suspected that some mineral dusts in particular leads to occupational diseases, including lung cancer. The present research concerned the relationship between cancer and those workers who work in Turkish...

Data mining is widely used in business applications including market segmentation, fraud detection, credit risk analysis as well as many other applications. In the construction domain however, the use of data mining has been extremely limited. Data mining usually requires the availability of a large database of previous cases to be analyzed. Therefore applications in the construction industry m...

Bid preparation is a non profitable process per se and thus offers a high potential for improvement: The costs and time for preparing a bid have to be little and the success rate must be high. This paper presents a case study which demonstrates how a small company in the construction industry can increase its efficiency in the area of bid preparation by redesigning its processes and introducing...

The need for the improved implementation of Information Technology (IT) has been identified in both empirical and highly structured research studies as being critical to effective innovation and development at an industry and enterprise level. This need is greater in the construction industry as it has been relatively slow to embrace the full potential of IT based technologies. In an attempt to...

Like many other countries that had already experienced before, the Chinese construction industry recently faced a challenge to develop an effective and efficient organizing system for its large number of information standards. Such an organizing system, including standard categorization and classification, as well as rules and procedures of managing a standardization project and revising existi...

The construction industry plays a fundamental and pillared role in the national economy. Since the reform and opening-up, great contribution has been made to the modernization and urbanization by construction industry. This paper collected statistics data from 1989 to 2012, analyzing the history, the present situation and the future trend of the development of national construction industry by ...