• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.95-102
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• 2007

This paper presents the core technology of Construction Business Process Automation to model and automate construction business processes. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Automation (BPA) have been recognized as one of the important aspects in construction business management. However, BPR requires a lot of efforts to identify, document, implement, execute, maintain, and keep track thousands of business processes to deliver a project. Moreover, existing BPA technologies used in existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems do not lend themselves to effective scalability for construction business process management. Application of Workflow and Object Technologies would be quite effective in implementing a scalable enterprise application for construction business processes by addressing how: 1) Automated construction management tasks are developed as software components, 2) The process modeling is facilitated by dragging-and dropping task components in a network, 3) Raising business requests and instantiating corresponding process instances are delivered, and 4) Business process instances are executed by using workflow technology based on real-time simulation engine. This paper presents how the construction business process automation is achieved by using equipment reservation and cancellation processes simplified intentionally.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.3 no.1 s.9
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• pp.107-114
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• 2002

Recently, a few major construction companies in Korea have a growing interests to the risk management system, and they are trying to apply it to their construction projects. However, the existing methodologies to be applied to the foreign public projects are not proper to the construction environments due to its adaptabilities, that has one time process and heavily depends on personal judgement. The purpose of this paper is to propose a risk response process in consideration of the residual risks, which would be more adaptable and practical in the construction environment, overcoming the current obstacles to be mentioned above. This process has systematic repeat process until the residual risks go down to the risk thresholds based on the efficiency of specific response strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.305-310
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• 2008

A lot of changes are required in a management method of a project because the character of construction projects gets bigger and higher gradually. Especially, for the efficiency of the management method the plans of various viewpoints focused on the construction supply chain field that the technical application of Ubiquitous Technologies such as RFID/USN is being advanced actively are presented. Recently, the introduction of the intelligent equipment which is developed for intelligence of construction site requires the new process model in the construction supply chain management on the construction site. Therefore, this study is to propose the intelligent construction supply chain reference model development in order to provide the guide that the numerous materials for construction could easily be applied in the changed process, as mentioned above, by overcoming the limit of the existing construction supply chain process which is proposed as bar codes and RFID/USN based individual material types and reflecting the change factors like the intelligent equipment of construction supply chain management.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.90-98
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• 2006

As management is becoming a focus of a construction industry, conprehensive construction management is needed. Thus a plan of improving a design work process for developing design work capacity is proposed. The plan of improving a design work process based on a information flow for decision makings is expected to be a good ground material of not only smooth communication among stakeholders and information tracing, but also effective management of whole process. Theplansuggestedinthisstudyissummarizedas: (1) Detailed and clear work definition (2) information-oriented work definition (3) Strengthening works related to design management

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.182-189
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• 2007

To reform and improve the productivity of construction industry, 1) it should be encouraged to improve the construction production process and 2) it is required to enhance reliability of construction information based on the systematic thinking process. To promote the information reliability created during construction production process, Lean Construction Research Center(LRC2) is developing a supporting system to improve design/material supply/schedule management, functioning to efficiently manage the information created at construction production processes and developing a web based construction information system that provides result management/decision making support/knowledge based information services.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.2 no.4 s.8
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• pp.144-156
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• 2001

This study aims at improving the limitations of current construction processes. Previous solutions to improve construction processes have been focused on the improvement of local processes. This paper proposes a method to improve global effectiveness of construction processes through ascertainment of communication among the process participants. This paper provides two case studies: Deck plate installation processes and Duct installation processes. The case study illustrates a way to improve global effectiveness by incorporating downstream participants such as specialty contractors in upstream construction processes such as design and planning.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.3 no.2 s.10
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• pp.107-113
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• 2002

The processes for management of historical data in construction have many problems according to construction firm$^{\circ}{\phi}$s participating in some of the processes. This study analyzed about current process and provided improved processes with IDEF method and simulation. The proposed $\lceil$To-Be$\rfloor$ model is more effective than $\lceil$As-Is$\rfloor$ model according to the result of simulation performance. It is revealed that the productivity in the construction company is more improved than that of the owner from the results of the system simulation.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.13-27
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• 2009

Construction companies are trying to apply process management to their business to improve efficiency in business circumstance of high competition and globalization. Since 1990s, construction firms adopted process management to improve internal and external business structure based on process. It however has a few improvement functions. In addition, business support systems for business process efficiency improvement were developed, but separation between business process and IT system occurred because it focused on function-based individual construction and data input/output. To solve this problem, this study proposed business process and IT integration model for supporting user to use business information and system based on visualized business process and improving use of previous business support system. Business efficiency is expected to be improved with this model which based on integration required business condition(stakeholder, business data, functions of business supporting system). This study developved process model, architecture, and BPA of whole construction management business. According to BPA, it analyzed business process stakeholder, detail activities, and input-output data. And also it examined 12 main business supporting system of Korean construction firms. Based on analyzed data, this study developed business process supporting integration model based on business process through PDCA and CRUD analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.454-457
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• 2001

All of the partner must manage continually scheduling for the successful project in construction. Besides, that is not a important only contracter's managing but also owner's managing which is a very important about project finishing in time. Especially, in the case of mega project, the owner has to manage progress of scheduling to control contractor. And the case of progress to delay or to change, owner, contractor, and inspector must make a plan of recovery scheduling. This study proposes a construction process model from IDEF Methodology.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.81-89
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• 2008

The purpose of this study Management Effectiveness Analysis of Construction Process Management. This study is to analyze the effects that process management has in outcome has been done by setting 5 elements of process management system as independent variables, making hypothesis, surveying and analyzing. The results of this analysis showed that process management operation level can be measured effectively through the application of Business Process Management System, and Process management strategy is found out to be contributed to improving strategy operation support, process management and IT connection technology. By seeing this research result, through optimally applying 'process management' in construction industry, process management can be used to improve the construction industry's potential competitiveness by improving effectiveness in works in the fields of strategy operation, process management, IT connection etc. So, by practically verifying the effectiveness of 'process management system', the purpose of this research is to come up with the necessity and the development of 'process management system' in construction industry.