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A STUDY ON THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ACT OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

  • Kihyoung Park;Chansik Lee
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.1256-1261
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    • 2005
  • The Professional Engineers Act (PE Act) of Korea reduces the competitiveness of PE, because of the lack of articles regarding guarantee of business scope and regarding continuous education. In foreign countries, after one passes the PE exam, he/she should register at the concerned government agency; in this way, a practical and systematic continuous professional development (CPD), along with management of work experience of PE, is carried out. In this thesis, the Professional Engineers Acts of different countries have been compared and analyzed in order to consolidate international competitiveness of Korean professional engineers. Also, the author of this thesis presented measures to solve the problems of the Korean PE Act.

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Construction Projects Productivity in West African country of Benin: Case of Ground Earthworks

  • Akogbe, Romuald Kokou;Feng, Xin;Zhou, Jing
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a survey related to excavation construction activities among national and international construction companies was conducted to evaluate site productivity in construction industry. To analyze the respective productivity levels of each construction company, a benchmarking measures analysis that featured calculations of the performance ratio (PR) and performance management index (PMI) was performed. As a result of these analyses, it has been found that the work performed by local companies was marked by lower productivity and that of international companies was characterized by good productivity. Further analysis of construction workforce resources P% revealed that a construction company's productivity is largely dependent on production capacity and consumption resources, which means that the retention of skilled workers and utilization of high-quality resources yields the highest level of productivity. These results suggest that for a local construction company to be competitive in the construction work market, it must retrain skilled craftspeople, foremen, engineers, and project managers, and strengthen its building capability by leveraging new equipment and technologies.

The Improvement System of Safety Consulting Engineering for Construction Calamity Prevention (건설재해예방 기술지도의 효과 증진방안)

  • 이찬식;이민우;안홍섭;김일수
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 1999
  • Small and medium-sized construction sites are most serious in Occupational Safety and Health in the construction industry. The safety consulting engineering has been launched, in 1995, to improve the safety environments and prevent serious injuries and fatalities accidents. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the safety consulting engineering for small and medium-sized construction sites. This study conducts a number of interviews with experienced contractors, consulting engineers, etc. And the questionnaire survey was peformed with 111 respondents. This paper presents several improvements to increase the efficiency of the safety consulting system.

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Bearing Capacity of Geogrid-Reinforced Railroad Ballast (지오그리드로 보강된 철도노반 쇄석기층의 지지력에 관한 연구)

  • 신은철;김두환;이규진;이상조
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1999.05a
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    • pp.367-374
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    • 1999
  • The selection of geogrid types for the use of reinforced rail roadbed is important in the design of railways. Also, the problem of the construction damage on the geogrid during construction is raised by the field engineers. Therefore, laboratory model tests were peformed to investigate the efficiency of the bearing capacity and construction damage. As a result, it was found that the bearing capacity of the rigid geogrid reinforced railroad ballast shows 1.54 times higher than that of the flexible geogrid reinforced case. In addition, there were no noticeable damage during construction.

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