• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.462-467
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• 2004

Design-build, which is defined as single source responsibility for design and construction, has been widely used in large public works since governmental formulation of measure for encouraging use of design-build in 1996. However, civic groups and small and medium sized enterprises are highlighting over-competition and unbalanced market shares of conglomerate in domestic design-bid market and insisting on decrease in the use of design-build and absorption into the lowest-price bidding. This study collected information about cost, schedule, quality, new technology adoption from 51 civil design-build projects and measured their performance.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.6 no.5 s.27
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• pp.102-109
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• 2005

The contract price of successful bidders in domestic public work projects has dropped significantly under lowest bidding process. Furthermore, compared to the U.S. and Japan, the bids are substantially lower. The increasing trend for domestic construction companies to bid projects without considering markup or expected profit, with the purpose of gaining experience for future similar work, has contributed to the overall dumping in bid prices. The government has implemented controls in hopes of reducing the price dropping trend but these have yet to work in the market. This study determines the level of significance of the contract price of the successful bidder in domestic public works projects and identifies factors that cause bid-dropping by comparing to those of the US and Japan. By mirroring advance countries' rules and regulations to prevent an abnormally low bidder, recommendation are provided to keep unrealistically low bidders from winning the work.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.78-90
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• 2015

Due to a significant decrease in the number of construction projects in the domestic market of Korea, overseas expansion of the Korean construction companies has been accelerated in recent years. However, the practice of bidding at a low price and lacking information about foreign new markets caused many companies to fail in their entries to these markets. As a measure to prevent such failures, this study has developed a framework which first defines the key research items that must be identified beforehand and then classifies them into a structured way so that the construction companies can actually use this framework to be better prepared for their forays into the new markets. The framework was actually applied for a construction project in Morocco, and its usefulness was proven by the user's successful participation into the project, nevertheless the application and result was limited. Although perhaps this framework should be applied to many more construction projects for its validity to be verified and for its structure to be better standardized, the framework still has its value due to the following two reasons: first, it has systemized the research items that had been only conceptually defined but had never been organized, and second it can be utilized as a investigation tool at the marketing stage.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.75-83
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• 2008

In the previous comparative studies of international competitiveness conducted before 2003, Korean construction productivity had been estimated to be lower (or poor) than that of developed countries such as US, UK, and Japan. However, the amount of international contracts Korean has won increased substantially, and Korean construction has progressed with creating two skyscrapers such as Petronas Tower and Burj Dubai. At this point we need to reevaluate what we are capable of. In this paper, we evaluated international competitiveness of our construction industry comparing to advanced countries by analyzing labor productivity. For evaluating construction competitiveness we measured labor productivity using the value of construction work in US dollar per hour based on domestic and foreign statistical data and analyzing completion days per a story and the ratio of underground floors to ground floors of buildings in Korea and Japan. As a result, although our construction productivity is not yet competitive with the US and Japan yet, we excel the UK.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.4-4
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• 1992

본 프로젝트는 수주 오더에 대한 납기 예측과 가공사 Delivery 체계의 전반적 향상을 목적으로 하며, 이에 따른 목표로는 로트 편성의 자동화, 월간, 주간 및 일간 단위의 생산 스케쥴 자동 작성, 원자재 소요량과 재공 및 재고 예측, 설비 부하 분석, 생산 사이클 타임 분석 및 단축이다. 상기의 목표 달성을 위한 가공사 Delivery Scheduling 시스템은 계획용 로트 편성 모델, 실행용 로트 편성 모델, 그리고 가공사 생산 스케쥴 작성을 위한 Simulation 모델로 구성된다. 계획용 로트 편성 모델은 현행의 로트 편성 기준에 따라 미가공 생산의뢰서 전체 물량을 대상으로 로트를 편성하여 이 로트를 염색기에 할당하는 모델이며, 실행용 로트 편성 모델에서는 일일 원사재고, 염색기 고장 등과 같은 실제 조업여건을 고려하여, 작업지시서 발행이 가능한 생산의뢰서 물량에 대하여만 로트 편성을 행한다. 가공사 생산 스케쥴 작성을 위한 Simulation 모델은 계획용 혹은 실행용 로트 편성 모델로부터 얻어지는 로트 편성 결과 또는 로트 번호가 부여된 최종 로트 편성 결과 (재공 로트 포함)를 입력으로 하여 이들 로트가 가공사 생산공정에서 처리되는 상세한 조업을 모의 생산하는 모델이다. 본 시스템은 영업부 및 기획부와 가공부의 사용 목적에 따라 크게 두가지로 사용될 수 있다. 영업부 및 기획부에서는 계획용 로트 편성 모델과 Simulation 모델을 사용하여 수주 오더에 대한 납기 예측 및 원사 수급 계획의 작성에 의사결정 지원을 받을 수 있으며, 가공부에서는 실행용 로트 편성 모델 및 Simulation 모델을 사용하여 상세 가공사 생산 스케쥴의 작성 및 긴급 오더의 처리 등에 관한 의사결정 지원을 받을 수 있다. 본 프로젝트를 통한 효과로는 정확한 생산 스케쥴의 자동 작성 및 스케쥴 작성시간 단축, 납기 예측 및 납기 준수율 향상, 실적관리 향상, 그리고 설비 가동율 분석, 현장관리 등을 위한 기타 유용한 정보제공 등이다.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.23-30
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• 2014

Overseas construction orders of domestic companies had been increased significantly in a short period from $10.9 billion in 2005 to $64.9 billion in 2012. However experts are concerned that quality of growth will not support quantitative growth. This study suggest concentrate competencies for not only winning in bid but also successful execution of domestic companies. 4 Steps which are Pre-Marketing, Bid-Preparation, Bidding, Contract Phase are defined for competency assessment. After drawing specific tasks by phase, survey asking importance and capability of the tasks to the person in charge of bidding and site was conducted by utilizing Likert 7 point scale. According to the result of IPA analysis, domestic construction companies need to ensure internal competencies; Project risk review, Bid team organization, and external competencies; Client needs grasp, Localization strategy, Cooperation establishment. Hearafter domestic construction companies will be able to utilize the result of the study for setting bidding strategy for winning in bid and improving earning rate.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.89-96
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• 2018

This study derived big issues in overseas construction through big data analysis. To derive big issues in overseas construction, candidate groups of big issues were identified through big data analysis targeting 53,759 issues including 39,436 issues from major portal sites, 10,387 issues from daily newspapers, and 336 issues in construction magazines from Oct. 1, 2016 to Sep. 30, 2017. The main results are as follows: First, the main issues of overseas construction for the past one year showed that markets were concentrated in Middle East Asia and most of them were low-price order plant projects, which revealed the limitations. Although orders of overseas construction were slightly upward in the first half of 2017 compared to previous year, overseas construction orders are still unstable due to uncertainties in the international affairs and drops in oil prices. Second, the interest topics based on the 8th core keywords of overseas construction among the overseas construction issues for the past one year showed that region (29.9%), corporation environment (22.0%), profitability (17.0%), organizations (15.1%), projects (5.2%), market environment (3.6%), policy and system (3.6%), and education (3.5%) in the order of interest. Third, 10 core issues that have expandability and persistence of discourse were extracted out of 30 issue candidates with regard to eight keywords. Based on the extracted issues, detailed analysis on each of the core issues in overseas construction and correlation analysis between 10 core issues were conducted.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.2541-2549
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• 2013

The Construction industry has been dealing with much trouble due to global economic recession and domestic political trends emphasizing on welfare than development. Consequently, domestic construction market has been dramatically shrunk during the last a few years, and international market has become the only potential solution for the industry. However, there has been lack of efforts in developing a quantified measure of global competencies for Korean engineering and construction organizations. This study attempted to develop quantified indices for Korean engineering and construction contractors with which the level of global construction competencies can be objectively monitored. In doing so, a survey questionnaire was developed to identify relative importances of core competency elements which were derived from extensive literature reviews and experts interviews. AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) was employed as a main analysis method in developing quantification measures. The analysis results reveal little differences in competency requirements between engineering and construction firms and it implies that the global market becomes more integrated and requires a total solution for a construction project. The developed core competency measures can be used to quantify the level of preparedness of Korean engineering and construction firms at the time of evaluation and also be used as a basis for performance benchmarking indicators if they are compared with business showings.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.18-27
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• 2016

The purpose of this study is to classify main risk factors on a construction phase of a plant project and analyze importance by the risk factors. Plant Industry is continuing boom and the increase in overseas plant orders in 2014 has showed a performance increase of 61% of the total orders, as the plant industry are risk factors for the construction phase, safety management target recognition and variety of accident prevention and safety factors by importance, etc. a situation that requires the development and introduction of management. So, it is performed that collected disaster conditions data on a construction phase of a plant project, is questioned by plant construction professional and is classified by 4M. Then, it is performed that is questioned by plant construction and safety professional in order to apply AHP method, and is presented from analyzing the risk factors, which are results of the survey, by importance and priority. This study will recognize from identifying the main risk factors in advance and will be utilized as a basic data is to prevent the risk factors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.853-854
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• 2012

Recent logistics environment is changing rapidly. A wide variety of customer requirements, IT skills development and the globalization of enterprise management is a major factor. In particular, Logistics cost savings is an important factor in ensuring the competitiveness of enterprises. As a result, companies gain competitive advantage for logistics distributed within the organization to manage resources efficiently integrate ERP enterprise resource management program, a new tool for companies to be competitive, attention was given. In this paper, work orders, purchasing, production management and quality management to provide a systematic and efficient logistics of ERP implementation strategy is proposed.