• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.22-32
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• 2017

Judging from the past cases, the contractor has frequently suffered losses caused by disapproved requests or reduced payments since it has not known the conditions of the contract or it has filed a claim to the owner without any proper claim system. Therefore, the existing claim process needs to be reformed. In order to reform the claim process, the contractor should consolidate the organizational structure, grant accurate duty assignments to the claims manager, implement regular staff training on how to deal with claims. In addition to this reformation, the contractor needs to improve the management of construction period and process control, and manage related documents thoroughly. Regular meetings are also necessary in claims. This study attempts to prove the effectiveness of the reformed process applied to Project "A", where the owner was responsible for the delayed supply of materials, inaccurate oral instructions, insufficient information on the work, and frequent changes of design. The project was completed in 96 months, which was extended by 34 months from the initial construction period of 62 months. The reformed claim process is expected to be of great help not only to largescale construction works but also to smallscale ones.

• Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.69-71
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• 2022

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.35-44
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• 2016

Various risk factors are known to be the nature of construction project execution process. These factors lead to potential claims, dispute mediation, arbitration, and litigation which can result in huge loss of money and time. Therefore, it is necessary for construction companies in Korea to improve overall project management capability through the evaluation before entering into the overseas construction market. Also, after examination of the claim and dispute caused by construction project risks, a substantial degree of influence and active preparation for the claim and dispute management should be confirmed via the effect analysis of the each factors. Main claim causes were derived through claim and dispute cases involved with domestic construction projects. As a prediction result of the main claim, 16.1% of the construction change claim, 5.7% of the bad faith claim and 2.7% for the construction delay claim were found to be the portion of the total construction cost. As a result of this analysis, risk management methodology was suggested to improve a project management capability for domestic construction companies through analysis result of the main factors of construction claims.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.6 no.4 s.26
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• pp.181-189
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• 2005

This study analyzed and summarized claims that took place during the past three years in the Korean construction-bonds market. Specifically, this study first examined the trend of construction-bonds claims. Second, the claims categorized according to the types of projects, suretyships, duration of settlement, amount of repayment and so on. Finally, based upon the analyzed results several suggestions, which will improve the efficiency of construction claim process, were provided.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.341-344
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• 2002

Claims are on an increasing trend in the domestic construction field with changes of negative thought about them. But there are still many factors of causing disputes Potentially due to old customs that an owner is predominant over a contractor. Unless these factors are solved, it is obvious that many disputes will occur henceforward. This study derives claim factors that must be solved first of all through analyzing how claim factors influence construction management factors such as time, cost, quality, and presents countermeasures that may prevent these claims.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.479-482
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• 2007

The volume of Construction project is increasing now in Korea. The complexity and variety makes the project many problems. But there are few construction contract experts. This results in a lot of managerial conflicts. Specially Engineer/Designer confront gigantic risk related to their job. So, to classify and to identify the risk practical investigation about Engineer/Designer's job. Therefore, to avoid and to prevent the claims for Engineer/Designer, clarification of the scope of service, use of external claim expert, and introduction of professional liability insurance should be accomplished.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.1D
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• pp.115-123
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• 2006

Recently, construction claims have been increased for protecting the rights of construction participants and effectively adjusting the changes under the contract. Thus, the importance of claim management has been emphasized in the construction industry. In domestic construction industry, some claim issues involved in construction activities are often being developed into disputes and even litigations because of the absence of methods or systems for the dispute resolution, and the lack of judicial precedents which can be provided as the references for resolving a particular dispute. In general, the judicial precedents related to the disputes and litigations occurred among construction participants would be extremely valuable in evaluating and analyzing current claims issues. However, such useful information has not been effectively accumulated and utilized in resolving the similar or sometimes identical types of disputes, thus requiring a large amount of additional costs, time and efforts. The primary objective of this study is to propose a web-based decision support system for construction claim management, which enables contractual participants to easily access and use the information of the judicial precedents related to the current construction claims. The decision support system is composed of 'prevention' and 'settlement' modules for avoiding and systematically resolving the construction claims.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.463-468
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• 2007

The disputes in construction projects are very important issue for stakeholders. However, many of presented claims have not received the compensation money required, and frequently turned down. The most cause is that the claims are not managed systemically on construction. Therefore, it is important to identify which management works are conducted on construction and how significantly do they relevant to construction claim. This research derives key claim management factors through analyzing causes for claim success and failure, and then presents management works relevant to them. This research also proposes the method for effective claim management and its expected effect through expert interview.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.239-242
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• 2007

Many contractors have overlooked the construction contract general conditions and it was a bad construction practice. Today, construction project is very complex and complicated. This requires a networked contract document and results in a complicated contract conflict hardly to be solved. Therefore, to reduce the construction dispute and to enhance construction practice, clarification of definition of Owner, several conditions to be revised, insertion of design supervision were suggested in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.54-62
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• 2001

Although claims and disputes may be never avoided in construction industry, until 1998, there are no systematic claims in the public sector in Korea. But, because of IMF, Contractors have been recognized that cost management is essential factor and contractual right can be demanded against the Public Orderer. Many affirmative effect such as, appearance of new professional service, prevention of lower quality construction, restrain of unnecessary budget expenditure, arrangement of duplicated or triplicated liability and revision of unnecessary administrative control may be anticipated through alleging claims, but in site representative manager and construction company may have ambiguous fear, somebody tried to allege claims. Therefore, to activate systematic construction claims, 32 public construction project claims alleged by contractors from 1998 to 2001 were analyzed, inactivated reasons of claims were examined and contractor's action plan to allege claims was suggested in this paper.