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  • Application of quality function deployment in the conceptual design of a construction project

    Creator:
    Hinkle, Verda O.
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    Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a product development process that assures the needs and desires of the customer are heard and heeded during the design, development and production of a product. Though it has been used successfully in other industries, only a few companies in the U. S. Engineering and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Engineering and Construction Industry have used QFD. The purpose of this project was to demonstrate that QFD

  • Construction risks allocation : optimal risk allocation decision support model

    Creator:
    Alsalman, Ali Abdullah
    Abstract:
    It has been suggested that projects in the construction industry are subject to risks more than other industries. However, there is often little parity in allocation of risks in the construction industry. Usually, project participants allocate risks by aversion where owners tend to shift risks to the primary contractor, who...
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    Dissertation
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    construction projects. It will also aid the construction industry in better risks management, cost and time

  • Framework for assessing the potential safety performance of construction mechanical and electrical field employees

    Creator:
    Moghaddam Vahed, Ali
    Abstract:
    In the field of construction safety, many researchers have worked to create assessment tools. These tools focus on different aspects of construction safety, such as assessing safety climate, safety culture, etc. Although research indicates that the majority of incidents are caused by unsafe behaviors and acts, there are no comprehensive...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ................................................................... 6 2.1 Construction Industry Injuries and Fatalities .......................... 8 2.2 History of

  • Multi-Criteria Risk Mapping Using Lean Tools for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry

    Creator:
    Viriato Maia Ferreira Pestana, Ana Catarina
    Abstract:
    Over the past two decades, the Lean Construction academic and practicing engineering community has used lean practices and tools to help improve the performance of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Lean practices have led to improved competitiveness of construction companies that have adopted them, by focusing on ways...
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    Dissertation
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    project management in the construction industry to learn through Lean Thinking, and lean practitioners

  • Root Cause Analysis of Transportation Infrastructure Accidents Using Fault Trees

    Creator:
    Yang, Rebecca
    Abstract:
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics cites construction as the most hazardous industry within the United States. The construction industry was responsible for 20% of all fatal occupational injuries in 2014. Approximately 20% of the construction injuries occur within Heavy Civil Engineering, in which there are 950,000 workers employed annually. This...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Ingrid Arocho The Bureau of Labor Statistics cites construction as the most hazardous industry

  • Establishing the link between construction fatalities and disabling injuries and the design for construction safety concept

    Creator:
    Behm, Michael
    Abstract:
    Construction remains the most hazardous industry in the United States in terms of the aggregate number of fatalities. Twenty percent of all occupational related fatalities occur in construction; approximately three construction workers die per calendar day. Moreover, this trend has been prevalent for too long. One method to reduce this...
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    Dissertation
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    procedures. Because the prevailing view of safety management in the construction industry is to delay the

  • A Point System for Managing Multispecies Fisheries

    Creator:
    Anderson, Christopher
    Abstract:
    An industry group has proposed a novel mechanism for management of the multispecies groundfish fishery off the northeastern United States. Under this mechanism, individual harvesters would be allocated a budget of points, to be expended landing fish. A regulatory body will set different prices, denominated in points, for landing each...
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    Other
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    Managing Multispecies Fisheries Author(s): Christopher Anderson Abstract: An industry group has

  • Motivation to consume fish (seafood) in Vietnam

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Tien Thong and Olsen, Svein Ottar
    Abstract:
    This study extends Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate the motivation to consume fish in a representative survey of Vietnamese individuals. The emperical study is based on using the structural equation approach to test construct valitidy of measures and the emperical fit of theoretical model. The results show that...
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    Research Paper
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    challenge for the seafood industry in expanding the domestic market, especially for the marine fish

  • Structural changes in the Icelandic fisheries sector - a value chain analysis

    Creator:
    Knútsson, Ögmundur, Klemensson, Ólafur, and Gestsson, Helgi
    Abstract:
    This pilot study maps the structural changes in the Icelandic fisheries sector from 1990 to present, from the general to the specific. The background is the radical and substantial changes in the structure of harvesting, production and processing; in the export activities and marketing in Icelandic fisheries. The main characteristics...
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    Research Paper
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    individual segments (levels) in the value chain. Keywords: Icelandic fish industry, structural changes

  • A formal model of construction safety and health risk management

    Creator:
    Hallowell, Matthew R.
    Abstract:
    Despite recent efforts to improve site safety, construction still accounts for a disproportionate injury and illness rate. According to the 2007 injury and illness data released by the National Safety Council, the construction industry has a fatality and disabling injury rate that is approximately three times higher than the all-industry...
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    Dissertation
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    released by the National Safety Council, the construction industry has a fatality and disabling injury