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Construction Labor Productivity Benchmarking: A Comparison Between On-Site Construction And Prefabrication, Emad Nadi
Dissertations (1934 -)
Construction labor productivity has been declining over the past sixty years, which has caused a decline in overall construction productivity. The traditional ways of managing construction projects and their delivery have evolved into an inherently inefficient and adversarial process. There was always a need to improve the way construction elements are constructed and delivered to the job site such as adopting lean construction. One way to achieve this goal is to prefabricate the construction elements off site and then deliver them to the site for installation. Prefabrication is a process of assembling building components in a remote location using a …
An Interactive Visual Approach To Construction Project Scheduling, Anamika Sharma
An Interactive Visual Approach To Construction Project Scheduling, Anamika Sharma
Master's Theses (2009 -)
Sound project management is an important pillar of success for a construction company. Project schedules are the primary tools for communicating the thinking and planning by the management team to all the stakeholders in a construction project. Traditional project scheduling software have become an indispensable tool for managers in various project oriented industries for tracking the schedule, the budget and resource requirements of a project as well as for preparing reports, providing on-line access to project information and communication with the members of the project team. However, these benefits are realized only after the project information is entered into the …