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Development of the Assessment Framework for the Environmental Impacts in Construction

  • Tahoon Hong;Changwoon Ji;Kwangbok Jeong;Joowan Park
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.196-203
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    • 2013
  • Environmental problems like global warming have now become important issues that should be considered in all industries, including construction. In South Korea, many studies have been conducted to achieve the government's goals of reduction in environmental impacts. However, the research on buildings has only focused on CO2 emission as a research target despite the fact that other environmental impacts resulting from ozone depletion and acidification should also be considered, in addition to global warming. In this regard, this study attempted to propose assessment criteria and methods to evaluate the environmental performance of the structures from various aspects. The environmental impact category can be divided into global impacts, regional impacts, and local impacts. First, global impacts include global warming, ozone layer depletion, and abiotic resource depletion, while regional impacts include acidification, eutrophication, and photochemical oxidation. In addition, noise and vibration occurring in the building construction phase are defined as local impacts. The evaluation methods on the eight environmental impacts will be proposed after analyzing existing studies, and the methods representing each environmental load as monetary value will be presented. The methods presented in this study will present benefits that can be obtained through green buildings with a clear quantitative assessment on structures. Ultimately, it is expected that if the effects of green buildings are clearly presented through the findings of this study, the greening of structures will be actively expanded.

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Construction of Reliability Assessment Infrastructure for Spacers in GIS (GIS용 절연스페이서 신뢰성령가기반 구축)

  • Lee, J.G.;Kim, M.K.;Kim, I.S;Jeong, J.Y.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.180-181
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, there have been brief review about the important consideration in laboratory planning and construction of the reliability assessment infrastructure including 400 kV, 120 kVA AC test system, which enable to evaluate the HV long-term overcharged withstand performance for spacers using in Gas Insulated Switchgears up to transmission class, Also it is described simply about its trial running of the whole test system and its assessment example. To inform the founded national code, RS C 0084, and the procedure for getting a reliability assessment certificate issued by the government, brief description of the code and summation of test results have been conducted.

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A study on the mass production performance evaluation of servomotors for manufacturing robots (제조 로봇용 서보모터의 양산성능 평가 연구)

  • Ryu, K.H.;Lee, T.H.;Park, J.W.;Kwon, H.S.;Kang, B.S.
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.91-96
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    • 2022
  • The performance and reliability of foreign servomotors and domestic servomotors for manufacturing robots were compared and verified. The mass productivity was confirmed by satisfying the requirements of the demanding companies. The servomotor was designed in consideration of mass productivity while satisfying the requirements of the demanding company. It was mounted on a real robot to check its performance and reliability. To secure mass-production performance, we designed and manufactured easy-to-manufacture parts and jigs to manufacture servomotors and achieved the goal of the mass-production evaluation of servomotors through individual performance evaluation, robot mounting test evaluation, and supplementation.

An Assessment of Bonding Shear Performance of Ultra-high-performance Concrete Regarding Interface Treatment (표면처리방법에 따른 초고성능 콘크리트의 전단부착성능 평가 연구)

  • Jang, Hyun-O;Park, Jin-Ho;Lee, Han-Seung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.81-82
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    • 2016
  • The present study aims to derive optimal interface treatment conditions for emulating a monolithic construction. The joints in this construction are formed through the bonding shear evaluation method during the placement of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) and normal strength concrete (NSC). The evaluation items include push-off tests for homogeneous UHPC + UHPC and heterogeneous NSC + UHPC. The experimental samples comprised a monolithic placement as the baseline, two levels for the separated placement according to the compression strength of concrete, and five levels for the interface treatment. The increase in the number of grooves and their cross-sectional areas only slightly influenced the bonding shear performance. The optimal interface treatment method for the homogeneous UHPC + UHPC construction grooves was at least 30mm. The heterogeneous NSC + UHPC construction should utilize waterjet roughening to expose the aggregate for the increased roughness.

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A Study on the Interoperability Improvement of IFC Property Information for Energy Performance Assessment in the Early Design Phase (초기 설계단계 건물 에너지 성능평가를 위한 IFC 속성정보 호환성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Inhan;Yoo, Hyunjae;Choi, Jungsik
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.456-465
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    • 2012
  • Nowadays, AEC industry tries to adopt BIM for low-carbon and eco-friendly building development. With increasing environment policies, many of global construction projects require the adoption of BIM for its many advantages. The advantages can be maximized with Open BIM since it can produce optimal results for various purposes of energy performance assessment. However there are some troubles in representation and property information in the process of Open BIM based energy performance assessment. To examine such troubles, this study focuses on differences between IFC of Open BIM and IDF format of Energy Plus known as the most accurate and diverse energy performance assessment. Two issues the study addresses are form representation and property information. The study figures out the different definition of IFC and IDF, and suggests the way of interoperability. The interoperability test of IFC for building energy performance assessment hope to develop of Open BIM based energy assessment.

Developing the Ecological Performance Standard for Replaced Wetlands by Analyzing Reference Wetlands (표준습지 분석을 통한 대체습지의 생태 성능 기준 개발)

  • Koo, Bon-Hak;Jeong, Jin-Yong;Park, Mi-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2011
  • This study was established to build and suggest the Ecological Performance Standards for replaced wetlands as the mitigation strategies for the construction projects. The request performance and assessment factors and standards were derived by bibliographic review and verified by the field survey for the reference wetlands. And the weights for each factor were derived by AHP(Analytical Hierarchy Process) method. The results are as follows : 1) Assessment factors were induced by in-depth research of many wetland assessment models and benchmarks evaluated ecological functions. This study proposed final 12 assessment factors through ecological specialist and experts interviews added with literature analysis. 2) 10 natural wetlands were selected as Reference Wetlands as the measure to propose assessment factors and assessment criteria. Those reference wetlands are well-conserved inland natural wetlands classified to the one having worthy to conserve (grade "high") according to RAM(Rapid Assessment Method). Reference wetlands chosen by the study are Parksilji, Jeongyangji, Mulkubi, Bawineupkubi, Jilnalneup, Jinchonneup, Doomoso, Haepyung wetland, Whangjeong wetland, and Whapo wetland. The research developed assessment criteria for the performance assessment factors based on several explorations of the reference wetlands. 3) "Requiring performance" of replaced wetlands is defined as "to carry out similar or same ecological functions provided by natural wetlands", in overall. The detailed requiring performances are as follows; ${\bullet}$ to play a role of wildlife habitats ${\bullet}$ to have biological diversity ${\bullet}$ to connect with other ecosystems ${\bullet}$ to provide water environment to perform good ecological functions 4) The assessment factors for required performance are categorized by wildlife habitat function, biological diversity, connectivity of adjacent ecosystem, and water environment. Wildlife habitat category is consisted of wildlife habitat creation, size of replacement wetland, and site suitability. Biological diversity category contains the number of plant species, the number of wildlife species, and number of protected species as the sub-factors. Connectivity of adjacent ecosystem is comprised of wildlife corridor, green network and distance from other ecosystem. Finally, water environment make up with water quality, depth of water body, and shape of waterfront. 5) Finally, every assessment factors were verified and weighted by the AHP methods and the final standards were proposed. The weights of factors of requiring performance suggested as habitat (0.280), connectivity (0.261), diversity (0.260), hydraulic environment (0.199). And those of detailed sub-factors are site suitability (0.118), protected species (0.096), distance to neighbor ecosystem (0.093), habitat creating (0.091), green corridor (0.090) etc.

IMPLEMENTATION OF TRL TOOLS TO KOREAN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION R&D PROJECTS FOR IMPROVING PRACTICAL USE

  • Namgyun Kim;Byungho An;Jaehong Choi;Hyunseok Lee;Sanghyuk Park;Yeasang Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.608-615
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    • 2013
  • The major countries including Korea extend the national investment on R&D and implement the business performance diffusion policy as the knowledge based competition age arrives recently. The necessity for risk management and systematic management system for R&D achievement have been appeared to prevent the failure as the R&D scale becomes larger as it was said. For this matter, the organization such as NASA and DoD in USA defines the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) as a quantitative accomplishment management index and utilize the Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) system as a criterion. Such tool is evaluated as very effective in the R&D project purposed the practicalization. It is expected that the disadvantage of evaluation system which is oriented to the academic accomplishment in its contents of current research and to contribute greatly to the practicalization of outcomes when such technology readiness level concept is applied to Korean national construction and transportation R&D project. Accordingly, this study analyzed the concept of TRL·TRA, the characteristics and current evaluation management system of Korean national construction and transportation R&D project and suggested the construction and transportation R&D project TRL·TRA performance model to accomplish the practicalization purpose.

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A Probabilistic Fuzzy Logic Approach to Identify Productivity Factors in Indian Construction Projects

  • Princy, J. Darwin;Shanmugapriya, S.
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.39-55
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    • 2017
  • Preeminent performance of construction industry are unattainable with poor productivity resulting in time and cost over runs. Enhancement in productivity cannot be achieved without identifying and analyzing factors that adversely affect productivity. The objective therefore is to propose a productivity analysis model to quantify the probability of effect of factors influencing productivity by using fuzzy logic incorporated with relative importance index method, for various types of construction projects. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire survey was carried out targeting respondents of Indian construction industry, from four distinct projects, namely, residential, commercial, infrastructure and industrial projects. Based on questionnaire administered, the relative importance and ranks of factors demonstrated using relative importance index method. Probability assessment model to analyze productivity was then developed by using Fuzzy Logic Toolbox of MATLAB. The applicability of the proposed model was tested in seven construction projects and the probability of impact of factors on productivity evaluated. The results of application of model in the construction firms infers that the most contributing factor groups for most of the projects were discerned to be manpower, motivation and time group.

Performance assessment model for robot-based automated construction systems

  • Lee, Ung-Kyun;Yoo, Wi Sung;An, Sung-Hoon;Doh, Nakju;Cho, Hunhee;Jun, Changhyun;Kim, Taehoon;Lee, Young Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.416-423
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    • 2013
  • An adjusted assessment model based on benefit-cost analysis (BCA) is proposed for evaluating the economic efficiency of automated construction technologies. In contrast to conventional BCA, the model does not compare monetary values, but the differences in benefits and costs between traditional and automated construction methods. To verify the usefulness of the model, it was applied to a real-scale building construction project that used a fully automated building construction system, and the face validity of the model was confirmed. The results indicate that the model can support decision makers in identifying valuable benefit factors and in assessing the cost effectiveness of the system.

Assessing Content Validity of Environmental Performance Indicators for Construction Sites (시공단계 환경성능평가를 위한 평가항목의 내용타당성 검토)

  • Kang, Goune;Lee, Sanggyu;Lee, Myungdo;Cho, Hunhee;Kang, Kyung-in
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2013.05a
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    • pp.7-9
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    • 2013
  • An assessment tool's validity is crucial because its scores are used as basis of decision making. This study assessed the content validity of the indicators for environmental assessment of construction activities. Pool of candidate indicators were constituted from the literature review, and CVR(Content Validity Rate) approach was adopted to investigate the content validity. As a result, 14 indicators are effective and five of them are content valid and retained from the pool.

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