• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.373-378
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• 2003

Korea's overseas construction industry has been rather depressed by the weakened profitability as well as the sharp decrease of the market shares due to the lack of international competitiveness and the declined international market following the outbreak of Iraq war. There exist a lot of various risks in performing the overseas construction, and especially EPC projects, which entail complicated process from different parts, also require a sophisticated procurement and management skill. Subsequently, to survive in the competitive international market, we need to establish strategies to select potentially profitable projects at the initial stage of bidding process and to mitigate the high degree of risk exposures through contract negotiation and its adjustment. This research provides the profitability evaluation bases, with which overseas construction participants can forecast and analyze the risk more systematically, by eliciting profit-influencing factors from real overseas construction projects and structuring their cause-and-effect relationships. The profitability causal hierarchy structure describes the profitability factors' hierarchy in details and their interrelationships. It also enables us to find out critical factors directly related to profitability aggravation through a qualitative analysis. Ultimately, with this hierarchy structure as the base, the research will suggest how to develop the quantitative profitability forecasting model.

• MARITIME LAW REVIEW
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.115-144
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• 2017

The impact of the global financial crisis, which began in the United States in 2007, had a major impact on the domestic shipping and shipbuilding industries. In this regard, the domestic shipyard has established an order-taking strategy in several ways as an alternative to lowering the amount of construction of commercial vessels due to deterioration of the shipping industry, and selected industrial sector was the offshore plant sector. However, the domestic shipyard has under performed the offshore plant in order to just increase sales and secure work without any risk analysis for EPC contracts. As a result, the shipyard has been charged more than the initial contract price with the offshore plant contractor, or the shipyard has become a legal issue requiring payment of liquidated damages due to delays in delivery of the product. The main legal disputes are caused by the thorough risk analysis and the inexperience of process control that can occur during offshore plant construction. and In particular, there is no sufficient review of the unequivocal provisions in the contract as an element of risk management. There is no human resource to review these contractual clauses. Therefore, this study identifies the existence of specific risks that could lead to delays in offshore plant construction, and examined the existence of any unequivocal clauses in contracts for offshore plant construction. and also discussed how the toxic clause applies to the actual parties and how the concrete risk factors in the construction contracts are transferred and expressed by referring to the interviews with the project manager of the domestic shipyard and the previous research. As a result, This paper examined the legal liability of the contracting parties regarding delayed delivery of the products due to the offshore plant construction contract. And to improve the domestic shipbuilding industry.

• 월간 기계설비
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• no.6 s.191
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• pp.30-32
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• 2006

최근 근로소득지원세제(EITC, ’08년) 시행을 위한 건설일용근로자 임금지급조서 신고와 관련하여 설비건설업계는 경영상 최대 위기에 봉착하고 있습니다. 또한 2003년부터 건설일용근로자는 국민연금과 건강보험에 의무가입토록 했으나 이에 소요되는 비용은 건설공사원가에 극히 일부만 반영되고 있는 실정입니다. 그러나 공공공사에 일부 반영된 보험료도 최종 납부자인 하도급자에게는 전액이 아닌 일부만 반영되고 있는 실정입니다. 이처럼 최저가낙찰제 시행으로 수주환경이 극도로 나빠짐은 물론 공사원가도 제대로 계상되지 않는 현실에서 설비건설업계의 현명한 대처능력이 그 어느 때보다도 요구되고 있습니다. 이에 따라 본지는 설비건설업계의 현안문제와 이에 대한 대한설비건설협회의 노력, 설비건설업계 당면과제에 대한 박종학 회장의 언론 홍보 등을 게재하오니 회원사 여러분의 많은 참고를 바랍니다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2015

Since CM policies established in 1996, contracts of CM services are continuously increasing over the past years. As constant improvement of positive awareness about public/private owners and CM capabilities of domestic construction companies, a number of efforts were being made to acquire competitiveness of domestic and overseas CM market. However, there has been lack of quantitative and comprehensive research to investigate CM firms. The purpose of this research is to statistically analyze total of 2,983 CM service contracts over the past 16 years published in KISCON (Knowledge Information System of Construction Industry) in order to examine CM owner type.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.146-155
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• 2009

In the construction industry, success or failure depends on the capability and role of the project owner's organization, which has an effect on the peoples' lives and national finance because of a lot of involvement from the project owner. Therefore, it is required that the project owner has the sufficient capability for the success of relevant industry and the further development of whole industry. Therefore, at the viewpoint of successful accomplishment of the construction industry, systematic and in-depth research that defines and evaluates the capability of the project owner's organization is necessary. As-Is and To-Be competency can be measured by the individual areas and elements through the survey. By evaluating these capabilities simultaneously, it is possible to assume not only the project owner's organizational competency but also constant other capabilities. It is become to make plans for strengthening the capabilities and to establish the strategy, by catching which capabilities are really necessary. It will result in positive effects on improving the capabilities of the project owner's organizational competency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.197-202
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• 2004

Turnkey contract system is an effective ordering system for the organizations that technical engineers are insufficient in their construction projects. It is possible to reduce project duration and to improve project Quality in an integrated contract system between design and construction. However, owners can have a difficulty caused from unitary responsibility system. This study analyzes present situation and problems of turnkey contract system in our country. The results includes various methods for improving the system based on the analysis of bid price nd selection procedure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.525-530
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• 2008

Construction industry is based on receiving an order. So, it has a special feature that market and manufacture activity is formed by a user. For this reason, it has a great influence on other industry compare construction industry with other industry. Specially when build public structure as infrastructure, importance of owner is emphasized then private construction because the primary role of owner have a great effect on national finance. Inspite of that, the importance of a faculty and role of an owner and an ordering organ, it is weak that a study about objective and meaningful evaluation of the specially, common standard and ability of public ordering organ as a major user of domestic construction industry. So, this study define the evaluation sphere and an element of an ordering ability for develop an ordering ability evaluation guide which can evaluate objective ability of an ordering organ. Apply its evaluation sphere and element, judge a standard of an owner, thought the judgement, it can judge accurately of short ability and if it can make future oriented strategy, it can elevate the efficiency of an owner organization management.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.204-209
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• 2006

Despite the recent depression of the construction industry, overseas plant market especially Middle East plant market is booming owing to the high oil price. Since many Middle Eastern countries are placing orders of big scale projects based on the high oil price, Korean EPC contractor are trying to get over the depression through theses plants. Presently, since the plant market is in prosperous condition in general, it is not hard to get overseas orders; however the original licenses that requirehigher technology and high added values are exclusive for advanced engineering companies which great difficulty is predicted for developing countries like us to join the crowd. Therefore, the objective of this study is to propose establishment of material management system on the filed to gain optimized effect of material management in connection with procurement system that all the procurement related personals execute tasks in advanced level by systemizing the task operation within the knowledge and task ability in time for plant construction procurement as a method to strengthening the competitiveness of Korean companies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.699-703
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• 2007

The recent plant order of oversea in domestic engineering and Construction Companies have been growing since 2003. In 2006, the total order came out 2.54 billion dollar. And in a quarter of 2007, the Ministry of Commerce announced that total order already came out 900 million dollar. They expect that the plant industry in the global market will be grown more in near future. However, even though there is growing plant businesses in oversea specially focused on the Middle East area, the domestic large engineering and Construction Company now face up the shortage of specialty manpower. Moreover, the domestic small and medium enterprises have same problems as large companies have. The plant construction industry is expanding rapidly, but the supply of specialty manpower can not follow its growing business. Also, most new supplied manpower is the person who graduated recently and received the degree in the different civil engineering track other than the plant major track, they are required to be re-educated. So, it is unable to deploy in short time. Also, there is shortage of manpower in the Construction Management financing division. Consequently, this project will study the efficient method of training for specialty manpower, provide the solutions.

• 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.