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Performance Management System for Benchmarking in Construction Companies

  • You-Jin, Jang;Moon-Seo, Park;Hyun-Soo, Lee
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.935-941
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    • 2009
  • In competitive society, performance management is an essential element of business success. Despite the importance of performance management, it has not been widely implemented in construction companies. In the recent years, construction companies have become more aware of its need to identify, implement, and sustain performance improvements more systematically. Thus, the objective of this paper is to develop performance management system (PMS) for construction companies. The roles of performance management system is not only measuring performance but also offering guidance to improve performance. Therefore, PMS needs benchmarking process that provides Best Practice and new knowledge. This paper investigates the case of PMSs in UK, USA, Brazil, and Chile and discusses the lessons learned. To overcome the limitations of existing PMSs, new performance measurement framework, in form of 'Construction' BSC, is proposed. Based on the 'Construction' BSC, key performance indicators are derived and methodology of performance management is suggested. This paper concludes by developing PMS for benchmarking in construction companies and recommending some further directions on this research topic.

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A Strategy on Performance Assessment Information System of Building Remodeling

  • Hong, Eun Hwa;Kim, Gyu Jin;Lee, Sang Chul;Lee, Jong Sik;Jo, Jae Ho;Chun, Jae Youl
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.643-645
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    • 2015
  • This study is designating the scope, in order to establish the information management system of performance assessment for remodeling buildings, to analyze the current status of performance assessment, and to identify technologies and concepts applicable to performance assessment model.

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A Study on the Information Technology Performance Evaluation Model (정보기술 성과 평가 모델에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Gyun-Hyun;Nam, Ji-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.121-132
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    • 2005
  • Nowadays, Information Technology(IT) has become one of the most critical managerial decision areas, because its role in the business practice tends to be more important and hence the amount of the investment in growing. Since there is no dominant and promising measure to evaluate the IT performance, the managements have difficulties on the decision process for IT investment. In this paper, we propose an IT performance evaluation model. The proposed model starts with finding the business performance evaluation areas and the corresponding KPIs, and then concentrates on the IT performance evaluation areas corresponding to the business performance evaluation areas. To extract the specific and reliable KPIs for the IT performance measure, we map the business performance evaluation areas into the corresponding IT performance evaluation areas and then combine and adjust these KPIs with the KPIs obtained from the experiential field interview. Finally, We present the complete model which has 11 business performance indices and 48 IT performance indices are completed.

A Study of the Green Management Requisites Effect on Corporate Performance (녹색경영 구성요소가 기업성과에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, Young-Hak;Chung, Young-Bae;Yoo, Woo-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to present the green management requisites effect on corporate performance. Corporate performance consists of customer and green performance, work satisfaction and financial performance. In order to carry out this research we obtained 175 survey sheets, inspect the twelve assumptions focused on reliability, appropriateness of the model. Validation results of hypothesis are summarized as follows. First, the green management components : system, resource/energy affect significantly to the customer and green performance. Second, the green management components : system, resource/energy influence significantly to work satisfaction. Finally, the strategy has on effect to the financial performance. This paper shows that the green management requisites have an effect on the corporate performance directly and significantly.

SELECTING OPTIMUM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN PRE-CONSTRUCTION PHASE CONSIDERING PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS

  • Hee-Sung Cha;Ki-Hyun Kim;Young-Jin Ko
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.609-613
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    • 2011
  • The importance of project performance management as an alternative for solving problems is rising, which are followed by the difficulties of managing construction project in the construction industry. This research classifies and applies the potential improvement made by the construction practitioners. In order to apply influential factors for success on the construction project, the research identifies the relationship between the factors and performance management practices. In addition, in order to predict the results reflecting the project characteristics which are un-improvable by the construction managers in the initial stage of construction, the effect of project characteristics to the identified management practices have been drawn by performance area. Finally, in order to improve the predicted performance, this research provides a framework in setting valid best practices according to the performance areas through a statistical analysis between the best practices and project characteristics through the industry survey.

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A Study on the Bending and Seismic Performance of High Performance Cold Forming Composite Beam

  • Choi, Young Han;Kim, Sung Bae;Hong, Hyung Ju;Kim, Sang Seup
    • International journal of steel structures
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.1772-1783
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    • 2018
  • Nowadays, the researches about composite structure system are being implemented in various fields, and many steel structures are designed based on that. In this study, the bending and seismic performance of the newly developed high-performance cold forming composite beam are evaluated by several experiments. As a result of the bending performance test, the bending moment of beam was increased stably depending on the depth and plate thickness of beam, and it is considered that the bending moment can be evaluated by the equation of a composite beam design. As a result of the seismic performance test, it was verified that sufficient seismic performance was obtained despite the increase of a negative moment rebar and depth of beam. In addition, the nominal bending moment has obtained the strength above the plastic bending moment, and also the plastic rotation angle has satisfied the requirement of composite intermediate moment frame.

Case study of detection and maneuvering performance of naval ships using engagement simulation of engineering level

  • Jeong, Dong-Hoon;Roh, Myung-Il;Ham, Seung-Ho
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.247-273
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    • 2017
  • Many different engagement situations require naval ships to achieve some level of effectiveness. The performance of the naval ships is very important for such effectiveness. There have been many studies that analyze the effectiveness and the performance. The former are largely related to engagement level simulations, while the latter are largely related to engineering level simulations. However, there have been few studies that consider both the engagement level and the engineering level at the same time. Therefore, this study presents three case studies using engagement simulation of the engineering level to check the performance of the related parameters. First, detection performance simulations are carried out by changing the specifications of the passive sonars of a submarine in different scenarios. Maneuvering performance simulations are carried out by changing the specification of the hydroplanes of a submarine in different scenarios. Lastly, in order to check whether or not our forces would succeed in attacking enemy forces, we perform an engagement simulation with various naval ship models that consist of several engineering level models, such as command systems, weapon systems, detection systems, and maneuver systems. As a result, the performance according to the specifications of the naval ships and weapons is evaluated.

Performance-based seismic evaluation and practical retrofit techniques for buildings in China

  • Wang, Hao;Sun, Baitao;Chen, Hongfu
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.487-502
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    • 2022
  • China is prone to earthquake disasters, and the higher seismic performance is required by many existing civil buildings. And seismic evaluation and retrofit are effective measures to mitigate seismic hazards. With the development of performance-based seismic design and diverse retrofit technology for buildings, advanced evaluation methods and retrofit strategies are in need. In this paper, we introduced the evolution of seismic performance objectives in China combined with performance-based seismic design. Accordingly, multi-phase evaluation methods and comprehensive seismic capacity assessment are introduced. For buildings with seismic deficiency or higher performance requirements, the retrofit technologies are categorized into three types: component strengthening, system optimization, and passive control. Both engineering property and social property for the retrofit methods are discussed. The traditional seismic retrofit methods usually are costly and disturbing, and for example in Beijing, seismic strengthening costs approx. 1000 RMB/m2 (for 160 USD/m2), for hospital building even more expensive as 5000 RMB/m2(for 790 USD/m2). So cost-efficient and little disturbance methods are promising techniques. In the end, some opinions about the retrofit strategy and schemes category are shared and wish to discuss the situation and future of seismic retrofit in China.

Condition Parameter-based On-line Performance Reliability (상태 파라메터 기반의 온라인 성능 신뢰도)

  • Kim, Yon-Soo;Chung, Young-Bae
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents the conceptual framework for estimating and predicting system's susceptibility to failure as function of condition parameter value which is representing the current status of performance measure using on-line performance reliability. The performance of such system depends on one parameter with a probability distribution that degrades with time gracefully. Performance reliability represents the probability that physical performance will remain satisfactory over a finite period of time or usage cycles in the future. An empirical physical performance function is constructed to incorporate explanatory variables (operating and environmental conditions) over a time or usage dimension. This function enables one to model device performance and the associated classical reliability measures simultaneously, in the performance domain and time domain. The conditional performance reliability structure developed represents a tool to predict system performance over time or usage for next usage period. By enabling such a framework, it can bring us more efficient planning and execution in system's operation control as well as maintenance to reduce costs and/or increase profits.

Performance-based seismic analysis and design of code-exceeding tall buildings in Mainland China

  • Jiang, Huanjun;Lu, Xilin;Zhu, Jiejiang
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.545-560
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    • 2012
  • Design codes provide the minimum requirements for the design of code-compliant structures to ensure the safety of the life and property. As for code-exceeding buildings, the requirements for design are not sufficient and the approval of such structures is vague. In mainland China in recent years, a large number of code-exceeding tall buildings, whether their heights exceed the limit for the respective structure type or the extent of irregularity is violated, have been constructed. Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) approach has been highly recommended and become necessary to demonstrate the performance of code-exceeding tall buildings at least equivalent to code intent of safety. This paper proposes the general methodologies of performance-based seismic analysis and design of code-exceeding tall buildings in Mainland China. The PBSD approach proposed here includes selection of performance objectives, determination of design philosophy, establishment of design criteria for structural components and systems consistent with the desirable and transparent performance objectives, and seismic performance analysis and evaluation through extensive numerical analysis or further experimental study if necessary. The seismic analysis and design of 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center Tower is introduced as a typical engineering example where the PBSD approach is followed. The example demonstrates that the PBSD approach is an appropriate way to control efficiently the seismic damage on the structure and ensure the predictable and safe performance.