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Quantitative Analysis on Factors Affecting Crew Productivity : Crew Size  

Huh Youngki (미국텍사스 오스틴대, 건설경영학, 포닥 연구원)
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Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management / v.5, no.3, 2004 , pp. 146-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
Consideration of factors driving crew productivities is imperative for accurate construction time estimation. Their impacts need to be well understood by estimators. There have been, however, little studies that quantified relationships between crew productivities and factors. This paper quantifies impacts of $^{\circ}A$ECrew size $^{\circ}\phi$ on crew productivities, for three highway concrete bridge activities, namely Column, Cap, and Deck, based on data compiled from 17 on-going highway projects in Texas State, USA. It was found that, for Bridge Deck operation, an increase of one crew-worker of formwork and rebarwork by one, leads to an increase of the productivity (cy/crew day) by 2.5 and 2.9, respectively. For the other activities, larger crew sizes did not lead to better crew productivities.
Keywords
Factor; Crew; Productivity; Bridge;
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