• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.89-90
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• 2021

VE is one of the technologies that are essential to promote cost reduction and performance improvement in construction projects. In the VE process, there are very important steps in deciding whether to adopt VE ideas and alternatives or not. However, when examining the possibility of selecting and adopting alternatives, it is difficult to clarify the differences and characteristics of the existing and improved proposals due to lack of understanding of the owner and inadequate consideration of harmonization with the alternative surroundings. In order to overcome these problems, it is necessary to effectively exchange information related to alternatives among VE participants and to examine the applicability of VE alternatives more in-depth. Therefore, in this study, a process for reviewing the applicability of VE Alternatives using BIM based VR was proposed to review more appropriate VE alternatives.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.132-133
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• 2015

Efficient scheduling and resource management are the key factor to reduce construction project budget (e.g., labor cost, equipment cost, material cost, etc.). Resource-based line of balance (LOB) technique has been used to complement the limitations of time-driven scheduling techniques (e.g., critical-path method). Optimizing construction alternatives contributes cost savings while honoring the project deadline. However, existing LOB scheduling is lack of identifying optimal resource combination. This study presents a method which identifies the optimal construction alternatives, hence achieving resource minimization in a repetitive construction by using genetic algorithm (GA). The method provides efficient planning tool that enhances the usability of the system.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.158-160
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• 2015

Efficient scheduling and resource management are the key factor to reduce construction project budget (e.g., labor cost, equipment cost, material cost, etc.). Resource-based line of balance (LOB) technique has been used to complement the limitations of existing time-driven scheduling techniques (e.g., critical-path method). Optimizing construction alternatives contributes to cost savings while honoring the project deadline. However, existing LOB scheduling is lack of identifying optimal resource combination. This study presents a method which identifies the optimal construction alternatives, hence achieving resource minimization in a repetitive construction by using genetic algorithm (GA). The method provides efficient planning tool that enhances the usability of the system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.157-158
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• 2021

Recently, there have been a growing number of cases using precast concrete construction methods to efficiently carry out construction projects. In order to efficiently carry out PC construction, it is necessary to establish a production plan of PC components that effectively reflect various design alternatives during the initial design stage. Because the production plan of PC components is based on productivity of PC members, the use of PC production simulations that can effectively predict productivity for design alternatives is necessary. Therefore, this paper propose a method to efficiently generate design alternatives which is necessary to perform to production simulations using parametric modeling techniques and BIM.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.32-42
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• 2018

Since the success or failure of VE projects depends on the capabilities of participants, including owners, construction managers, architects, general contractors and VE experts, it is important to follow systematic procedures. However, it is often the case that only a rough evaluation is performed, or the rough and detailed evaluations are integrated in actual VE tasks. In this case, it is difficult to analyze and evaluate the alternatives in terms of risk, even for the important alternatives. This in turn leads to the so-called returning alternatives where the alternatives proposed in the preceding stage are returned to the original plans in the following stage, and thus the repetitive work for the alternatives often decreases the efficiency of the VE task. In this regard, this study proposed a risk assessment process for VE alternatives in order to minimize the occurrence of returning alternatives based on the systematic analysis and evaluation of VE alternatives. It will increase the efficiency of VE tasks by reduces the number of regression alternatives.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.830-835
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• 2005

4D models help construction planners to develop and evaluate construction plans. However, current analyses using 4D models are mainly visual and limit the quantitative comparison of construction alternatives. This paper explores the usefulness of extracting quantitative information from 4D models to support time-space analyses. We use two 4D models of an industry test case to illustrate how to analyze 4D content quantitatively (i.e., work space areas and distances between concurrent activities). This paper shows how these two types of 4D content can be extracted from 4D models to support 4D-based-analysis and novel presentation of construction planning information. We suggest further research to formalize the content of 4D models to enable comparative quantitative analyses of construction planning alternatives. Formalized 4D content will enable the development of reasoning mechanisms that automate 4D-model-based analyses and provide the information content for informative presentations of construction planning information.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.129-158
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• 1998

By investigating various information promotion plans by Taegu Metropolitan City Government, Kyungbuk Provincial Government or by the ministry of Agricultural, Forestry, and Fishery Affairs, this paper intends to analyze current trends of information approached from wider perspective, and to propose multi-layered alternatives which improve informatization promulgation in rural areas of Taegu, Kyungbuk areas. This research proposes following 6 alternatives, as informatization strategies to develop rural economics ; (1) construction of Agricultural Techno Park to advance and develop informatization in rural areas, (2) construction of communication super highway to strengthen information infrastructure, (3) construction of region-specific information system to provide agricultural information unique to its region or areas, (4) provision of agriculture-related information by establishing regional information centers separated by regions like North, South, Eastern regions etc., (5) establishment information, (6) establishment of information gallery of village to provide information needed. And this research also investigates specific contents progresses of various plans by various actors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.207-208
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• 2023

The procedure of predicting the construction cost and selecting the best alternative is performed based on comparative review of each building case. In the case of office building, it is required continuously until design is complete, since the owner requirements are various and likely to change during the design process compared to a standardized apartment. However, since the comparison work for each alternative in practice uses only the unit construction cost, there is no correlation between the alternative and the final result, and it is difficult to quantitatively determine the effect of the determined design factor on the total construction cost. It is needed that a means to support the generation of design alternatives using similar building cases during the design phase. This paper proposes a BIM-based data replacing process to support creating and comparison of design alternatives of internal finishing for office building. When design alternatives are created through the proposed process, it is possible to compare several similar cases with current project under equivalent design circumstance. Because only some finishing properties are replaced while maintaining the shape information such as the length, height, and base constraint of the object to be replaced.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.158-159
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• 2016

Construction project consists of several stages such as planning, design, construction, operation/maintain, etc. Decisions made in the planning and design stage have a significant impact on the construction and operation/maintain stages. Identifying key resources contributing to duration and cost of design alternatives is an important measure to achieve effective coordination between design and construction. This study proposes a method which finds an optimal design alternative by taking into account of resource planning, expected duration, and cost in construction stage. Base on literature review relative to the assessment of design alternatives, a method which predicts required resources, duration, and cost of the design alternative is established. Then, a method that identifies an optimal design alternative based on the preference of a certain project criteria is developed. Finally, a case study is presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2010.09a
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• pp.119-123
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• 2010

Causes of the levee collapse are directly or indirectly associated with geotechnical engineering as well as hydraulics. In this paper, literature survey and analysis were conducted to present the alternatives in geotechnical engineering issues for rational levee design. The alternatives include the reasonable river-bed soil utilization and precautions of numerical analysis and slope stability analysis, disruption type and improvement method of drainage facility.