• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.15-23
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• 2024

Recently, quality problems, such as the collapse of apartment structures under construction, has emerged as a social issue. Although there are various causes of quality problem and the impact of each problem may be different, the problems from the perspective of construction engineer of construction company are investigated. Therefore, this study aim to investigate the adequacy of construction engineer's experience, number of field engineer, timing of engineer deployment at construction sites, etc. in order to resolve quality and safety problems. In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted targeting construction managers to obtain objective opinions. The results showed that the number of construction engineers in construction companies should be increased and that intermediate construction engineers should be increased to enable practical site management for resolving quality and safety problems. In addition, it was found that there was a need to reduce the number of non-regular employed field construction engineers in construction site and at the same time systematically regulate the number of on-site construction engineers, similar to safety managers and quality managers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2009.09a
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• pp.785-789
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• 2009

It is essential to carry out appropriate site investigations for the accurate prediction of the geo-structure. However, the importance of the site investigation is often overlooked due to the time and expense constraints. In this study, several cases of geotechnical design perfromed in United States are introduced with the lessons about how the site investigations are planned, performed and applied for the actual design parameter determination. Based on the case studies presented herein, experienced geotechnical engineer should participate in site investigations from the planning stage through the final boring logs and utilize all the laboratory and field tests to have consistent input parameters for the soil constitutive models. Furthermore, it is also desired to have close relationship between construction industry and the academia to compensate their needs.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.34-42
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• 1986

These brief studies and reports of the use of exposed aggrigate precast concrete in practice are combined with a description of some notable co-ordination such as shop drawing, manufacturing and erection in the field construction. Above mentioned exposed aggrigate P. C. means architectural P. C. which was used to the VOTRAKON site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fabricated P. C. on the site without autoclaving and steam curing plant had been successfully carried out on this project-core building, conference room and others. The project designed by HOPE/VTN international INC. which is located in San Diego, California U.S.A. stands for vocational training and related support facilities contract. We had to submit shop drawings showing complete information for fabrication and installation of P. C. unit reinforcement. Also we should be indicated member dimension and cross section, location size and type of necessary for erection. We can delineate the following characteristic results. One of the most important things how to handle exposed aggrigate P.C. unit as specified was quality assurance and co-ordination for shop drawing, manufacturing and erection.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.53-59
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• 2010

This research is about the inspection system which is for maintenance of laterals of local RBF(River bed Filtration). Inspection system is designed for local use in order to endure water resistance up to 50m and it also can examine the internal condition and colgging of laterals by moving inside of the laterals about 100m back and forward. We will conduct performance test of inspection system at the lacal RBF site and present its result.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.94-95
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• 2014

Construction industry has become higher, larger and more complicated. It has been analyzed that the process planning in the construction site has been made by the site engineer experience mostly and some were made based on historical data. However, such plans have been investigated that require numerous revisions during construction which means that the plans made through such methods are not reliable. Numerous studies in this field have been conducted trying to solve such problems developing methodologies to overcome such limitations. It has been analyzed that many studies have focused on suggesting prediction models only that cannot be used for both actual planning prior to construction and process monitoring during construction. Therefore, this study suggests a methodology that effectively manages construction productivity by applying simulation methodology combined with bayesian approach focusing on the high-rise curtain wall operations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.21-22
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• 2013

Construction industry has become higher, larger and more complicated. Construction projects demand precise planning and management prior and during actual operation. However, it has been analyzed that the process planning in the construction site has been made by the site engineer experience mostly that usually results in unreliable results. Numerous studies in this field have been conducted trying to solve such problems developing methodologies to suggest quantitative results. It has been analyzed that many studies have focused on limited data only and neglected suggesting an appropriate methodology for changing data applications. Therefore, this study suggests a methodology that effectively manages construction productivity by applying bayesian approach focusing on the high-rise curtain wall operations.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.64-67
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• 2001

In resent the weight of structure is heavier and bigger than before. Engineers use many heavy equipments to erect buildings and bridges. The heavy equipment is very useful to lift any weight. But most engineers do not know the impact of the weight when the equipment lifts the weight. In this study one researched into the impact of the weight in the crane work which lifts the weight in the construction site. Also along the number of pulley sheave the impact of the weight was researched. From the impact field test the impact coefficient of a single pulley sheave crane was 0.65 and the four pulley sheaves crane was 0.13. The result shows that the impact coefficient of a single pulley crane is more than 5 time of the impact coefficient of the four pulley sheaves crane and that engineers must consider the impact effect of the crane work in the construction site.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1650-1658
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• 2011

The quality control of compaction fills has been commonly performed via the field density measurement and plate load tests. However, the engineer frequently encounters difficulties in actually controling the quality due to the uncertainty in the field density measurement as well as the plate load tests. To overcome these difficulties, Park et al. (2009) proposed an alternative quality control method based on the measurement of the compressive wave velocities. In this study, the compressive wave velocities measured in the full-scale model test site were analyzed. Direct arrive seismic tests were performed after the completion of each trackbed layer. To identify a relationship between elastic wave velocities and degree of compaction, laboratory compaction tests were conducted.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.705-710
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• 2000

Recently, use of sea-sand as fine aggregates in reinforced concrete structures is increasing because of lacking of supply due to destructive of environment caused by obtaining and exhausting of resource. It rise up issue, some field reconstruction, interrupted construction works occurring to the trouble on the site because sometimes engineer does not agree to use of corroded bar, even slighly corroded. This study investigates the properties of bond strength and the structural behavior of corroded bars before and after placement. The purpose of the study is to present the database estimating degree of damaged bond strength according to corrosion level and deciding on whether using corroded bars or not.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.30-34
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• 2000

In recent years, disputes are on the increase that noise and vibration by construction equipments and blasting do damage to livestock farming families around construction sites in the construction of a road or a railway. Therefore, the following ways of improvement were presented in solving the existing problems of livestock disputes. $.$ To minimize the damage of livestock farming families by effect assessment of noise and vibration in the region expected to be damaged before the start of construction $.$ To maintain a thorough management system that can reduce noise and vibration during construction work $.$ To apply an adequate measurement method of noise and vibration taking field conditions into consideration