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Developing an Urban Planning Model for Climate Change Adaptation

  • Kim, Jong-Kon;Rhim, Joo-Ho;Lee, Sung-Hee
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.51-53
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    • 2015
  • As abnormal climate phenomena occur more frequently due to climate change, damage which results from meteorological disaster increases accordingly and its scale and variety are becoming wider. This paper draws out planning and design elements and application techniques to build cities more adaptive to climate change from urban development cases in US and Europe. An urban model is suggested, that enables built environment to be more resilient to risks caused by climate change is applicable to urban development projects in practice.

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Application of Automated Measuring System for the Underground Construction in Urban Area (도심지 근접시공의 자동계측응용)

  • 남순성;정상용
    • Explosives and Blasting
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.53-72
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    • 1997
  • It is impossible to precat the behavior of ground soil and structure accurately during underground construction in urban area or excavation in soft ground area because of difference between the assumed design condition and the actual site condition. Therefore, it must be managed by measuring system and correct the difference by real data. Large scale under ground construction in urban area like a seoul subway project has needed for Intelligent Construction technique, a field of the Engineering Contractor. The automated measuring system is developed for the technique. It is described that the procedure and the method of measuring work with application of the automated measuring system.

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Changes in Accessibility of Seoul Metropolitan Area by the Construction of Additional Urban Railway (도시철도 추가 건설에 따른 서울시 역내 지역별 접근성 변화)

  • Lee, Sang-Hyun;Jin, Yujuan
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.105-114
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    • 2019
  • The goal of this study is to quantitatively evaluate the effects of the additional construction of urban railroads. To this end, 1) establish accessibility as a measure of quantitative evaluation of construction effects; 2) select the 'Integration' of Space Syntax as a quantifiable indicator of accessibility; 3) represent the Seoul railroads as a network; 4) calculate the 'Integration' form the network before and after the additional construction of the urban railroads. By calculating the change of the 'Integration' of the individual nodes and the change of the sum of the 'Integration' of given zones, the change in accessibility of a particular node and the change in accessibility of a particular region were calculated. After analyzing the change in accessibility in nodes and areas as well, it was confirmed that the additional construction of urban railroads was improving accessibility as a whole of Seoul. It was also identified that there was a degree of difference in the extent of the accessibility change for the different areas. It is particularly noteworthy that changes occur in the accessibility ranking. While certain regions were improving relative rankings, others fell in rank. With this finding, it could be argued that active consideration of the areas in which the relative decline occurs is needed when the planned urban railroad is being built.

To Protect and Utilize Suburban Green Space and To Expend Green Ecological Space at Urban Periphery

  • Dinghua Liu;Yaojiong Mei
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture International Edition
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    • no.2
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    • pp.164-170
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    • 2004
  • Suburban green space is an important component part of urban ecological system, the third largest space between urban center and peripheral countryside. Because of the specific regional location of the suburban green space, it differs from the green space in the center of the city in the respects of construction and planning. Anyhow, it has the features of less investment, quicker efficiency, free and easy management and good ecological effects. The writer of this paper holds that urban ecological construction should be planned rationally and laid out in an overall way under the prerequisite of making full use of and protecting local species so as to further extend the green ecological space at urban periphery, to create dense green surroundings, and to explore a way for ecological construction to develop in a scientific, effective and healthy way.

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INTEGRATED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR WHOLE PHASES OF URBAN RENEWAL MEGAPROJECTS

  • Heedae Park;Kang-Wook Lee;Seung Heon Han
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1463-1467
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    • 2009
  • Construction projects are vulnerable to diverse internal and external factors, requiring systematic and consistent performance management along the entire life cycle of a project. In particular, urban renewal projects have a range of performance measures, including policy reconciliation and permits, project development, project financing, design, construction, and occupancy and maintenance. This requires a program-level megaproject approach, which integrates each stage of a project as well as variety of stakeholders' interests in pursuing a project from different perspectives. However, previous research on performance management has focused especially on the limited scopes of factors, including cost, quality, and schedule at the project level or on financial factors at the firm level. Given the lack of current approaches, this study suggests an integrated and systematic performance management scheme to control urban renewal megaprojects at the broadened perspectives of the program level. To this end, this study adopts the balanced scorecard approach and elicits key performance indices associated with various project configurations. Finally, an algorithm is presented for quantitatively assessing the level of performances along whole life cycle of urban renewal megaprojects.

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Realized Value Creation; New Construction in Constrained Urban In-fill Sites

  • Hadley, Nathaniel C.;Thornton, Charles H.
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.33-46
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    • 2018
  • The Case Study prepared by PCPA and Lift Group will identify a growing development problem in urban areas; high value project sites that are restrictive in size or "tight" are underutilized and underdeveloped. In an effort to remedy this problem, our team will evaluate a design program through the lens of both conventional construction and Core Cantilever Construction. It is also important to differentiate between Core Cantilever construction and the plagued "Lift Slab" construction method as they may be confused, due to the top down construction sequence. This article will demonstrate that constraints inherent to conventional construction techniques prohibit economically viable development of these project sites, while Core Cantilever construction methods increase the projects value by reducing construction timelines and increasing the useable floor area.

Strength Characteristics of Soil-Cement Constructed in Seoul Urban Area (서울 도심지 내 지반에 시공한 소일-시멘트의 강도 특성)

  • Choo, Jin-Hyun;Kim, Young-Seok;Kim, Hak-Seung;Cho, Yong-Sang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.03a
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    • pp.1206-1211
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    • 2010
  • Soil-cement, a hardened mixture of Portland cement, soil, and water that contain sufficient durability, has been widely utilised in Seoul urban construction sites to retain lateral earth pressures or reinforce grounds. However, little information has been reported about the strength characteristics of soil-cement constructed in Seoul urban area. In this study, we performed a number of unconfined test to the soil-cements mixed from soils sampled in 3 sites in Seoul urban area. Results indicate that unconfined strengths and optimum cement amounts of soil-cements are highly dependent on the proportion of coarse-grain particles of mixed soils. Furthermore, changes of unconfined strengths with curing time are diverse with respect to mixing conditions.

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Emission Dispersion Analysis based on the Development Density associated with Urban Planning (a case study of the Delft city on Netherlands) (도시계획에 따른 개발밀도에 근거한 도시 대기오염 확산분석 - 네덜란드 Delft시를 사례로 -)

  • Kim, In Su;Yang, Choong Heon;Hu, Hye Jung;Sung, Jeong Gon
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.21-33
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    • 2014
  • PURPOSES : This study presents a specific methodology for air dispersion analysis of urban areas methodology in accordance with urban planning and transport policy. METHODS : This study performed three alternatives including development density and public transit applying integrated urban model for the Delft city on Netherlands. Based on this result, the two types of air pollutant emissions($PM_{10}$, NOx) were calculated and analyzed the emission dispersion on that City. RESULTS : As a result, the quality of air near the City is better than that of current conditions showed that approximately from 2.1 to 7.9% according to alternatives. CONCLUSIONS : Air quality assessment in urban areas can be reasonably performed by applying a methodology when urban development and transport policy are considered.

A Review on Urban Resilience Assessment Methods

  • Barjau, Jaime;Wong, Francis K.W.;Fang, Dongping
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.685-686
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    • 2015
  • The world is currently undergoing an intense urbanization process. The percentage of urban dwellers has never been so high. In 2010, and for the first time, urban population surpassed the rural one, accounting for 51% of global population, and this trend will continue in the forthcoming years. This increment in concentration of population and supporting assets in cities, make their performance a critical issue for world population. Recent events such as Fukushima tsunami and the hurricane Katrina have shown how fragile built environments are and the unpredictability of occurrence and magnitude of the hazards. Such an expansion of the world's urban population, together with an increase in severity and number of hazards and catastrophes, has put under the spotlight the necessity to build cities not only sustainable, but resilient. Decision makers should acknowledge failure as an option, and the importance of developing city resilience. This paper will provide an initial review on urban resilience, definitions and assessment approaches as a first step for decision makers to account for resilience in their decision making process.

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