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Recent Insights from the International Common-Cause Failure Data Exchange Project

  • Kreuser, Albert;Johanson, Gunnar
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 2017
  • Common-cause failure (CCF) events can significantly impact the availability of safety systems of nuclear power plants. For this reason, the International Common Cause Data Exchange (ICDE) project was initiated by several countries in 1994. Since 1997 it has been operated within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) framework and has successfully been operated over six consecutive terms (the current term being 2015-2017). The ICDE project allows multiple countries to collaborate and exchange CCF data to enhance the quality of risk analyses, which include CCF modeling. As CCF events are typically rare, most countries do not experience enough CCF events to perform meaningful analyses. Data combined from several countries, however, have yielded sufficient data for more rigorous analyses. The ICDE project has meanwhile published 11 reports on the collection and analysis of CCF events of specific component types (centrifugal pumps, emergency diesel generators, motor operated valves, safety and relief valves, check valves, circuit breakers, level measurement, control rod drive assemblies, and heat exchangers) and two topical reports. This paper presents recent activities and lessons learnt from the data collection and the results of topical analysis on emergency diesel generator CCF impacting entire exposed population.

A Study on Construction Management System for Settlement in Korea through the Case of Program Management of IIA Project (IIA Project PM 적용사례를 통한 CM체계 정착방안)

  • Oh Myung-Kap
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.96-101
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    • 2001
  • Incheon International Airport Construction Project the biggest national multi-complex construction project in a single area in Korea, the necessity for introducing the Program Management System has been brought up from the development stage due to its specific characteristics and environment and with the Project Management Services Contract in December 1994 the system has been established and operated. At the time of contracting, there were controversies over the expected effect of the system since there were no related laws and regulations in domestic construction codes. Furthermore the situation was very hard in which some practical problems have been found in the process of applying and operating the system due to the lack of recognition and infrastructure in Korea. Incheon. In spite of these difficulties, thanks to the devotion and efforts of the project participants along with thoughtful concerns from the industries and the academies, the project goal has been successfully accomplished. This paper will analyze the various problems arose in the process of applying the Project Management System to Incheon International Airport and present more practical and desirable ways so that it can help to make the environment for properly settling Construction Management at the earliest.

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A PLANNING MODEL FOR APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT REFLECTING CLIENT REQRUIREMENTS

  • Yoo-Shin Kim;Ye-Keun Oh;Jae-Jun Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.774-779
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    • 2005
  • Client requirements is a concept with increasing interest in relation to several outcomes of companies, and in particular, in the event of apartment project that takes large share in the domestic construction industry, diverse angle of survey is performed to discover the client requirements and reflect them to the project to improve the quality. For this purpose, it is required to learn the client requirements and apply it in the apartment project, and the QFD (Quality Function Deployment) linked ROQ (Return On Quality) is a technique used in the manufacturing that surveys the client requirements to improve the customer satisfaction, and apply it to the quality improvement program to improve the profitability in this process. In this study, through the application of the ROQ process, the plan to improve the apartment quality management is presented. For this purpose, the consumer interview survey, FGI (focus group interview) survey and the client requirements are analyzed, and thereafter, through the interview with the specialist, the quality improvement program that enables the application to the product development of new apartment product is established. Through this process, the new apartment quality management improvement plan is presented.

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Identifying barriers of BIM implementation in ODA projects in Vietnam

  • Huong-Thi NGUYEN;Nguyen HOANG-TUNG;KIEU TRI-CUONG;Kazuya SHIDE
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2024.07a
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    • pp.1129-1136
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    • 2024
  • Official Development Assistance (ODA) is widely known as an essential source for socioeconomics of development of developing countries, especially in the infrastructure sector. Since 2023, the use of BIM is regarded as a mandatory task for public-funded projects including ODA projects in Vietnam. However, ODA projects require a coordination in project management and implementation between the lenders and the borrowers which are different in BIM standards and/or guidelines. This obviously causes barriers for the implementation of ODA projects. This study aims to deal with the problem by identifying key barriers for BIM implementation in Japan ODA projects in Vietnam. To serve the purpose, data from non-BIM ODA projects is firstly analysed to identify problems that can be handled by BIM. Next, problems obtained from BIM-applied projects were considered to identify needed aspects for BIM application in ODA projects in Vietnam. Finally, the incompatibility between Vietnam's BIM guidelines and related regulations is investigated to identify barriers to BIM implementation in ODA projects in Vietnam. Findings showed that the key barriers include problems related to BIM content, stages of applying BIM to project, BIM cost, BIM guidance documents, and the capability of executing agencies.

Leadership Development: What Role for Vocational Training?

  • Khemissi, Farid
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 2021
  • The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that could influence leadership development and employee retention in private sector organizations. In this research, we will seek to determine the nature and extent of the impact of professional training on leadership development. This research project is one of the new topics that some researchers have started in recent years. the novelty of this subject is the inclusion of the vocational training factor. This factor is likely to have a positive impact on leadership development. Some of the factors already known for their impact on leadership development such as personality, power, and material and moral incentives will be adopted. It is assumed that the results of this research will have a positive impact on the development of leadership within companies.

A Study on the Needs for Joining Korean Physical Therapists and Concerns of in the Physical Therapy Students in the Filed of International Development Aid Cooperation (한국 국제개발구호협력 분야에서 물리치료사의 참여 필요성과 물리치료과 학생들의 관심도 조사)

  • Kim, Kwang Hun;Ahn, So Youn
    • Journal of Korean Physical Therapy Science
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2013
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study is to survey the needs for joining of Korean Physical Therapists and the concerns of Physical Therapy students in the field of international development aid cooperation. Method : we conducted a survey of students whose major is Physical Therapy and employees and volunteers who participated in the international aid business of KOICA. Results : The results of this study were as follow. 1) Employees and volunteers who participated in the international aid business of KOICA recognized that there was the needs for joining of 1 to 3 or more than 3 Physical Therapist as a member of overseas volunteers programs. 2) Even though Physical Therapy students have a great interest in volunteering in the field of international development aid cooperation, they have few information. Conclusion : Firstly, there are needs to extend the participation of Physical Therapist to 1~3 or more than 3 in the KOICA project in the field of international development aid cooperation. Secondly, we should be able to give a lot of information and to make a plan for Physical Therapist students to be a member of oversees volunteers to enhance their understanding and recognition about international collaboration. Finally we could examined the needs for joining of Korean Physical Therapists and the concerns of Physical Therapy students in the field of international development aid cooperation.

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ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING DESIGN THROUGH DATA MINING APPROACH

  • Hyunjoo Kim;Wooyoung Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.601-605
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    • 2009
  • The objective of this research is to develop a knowledge discovery framework which can help project teams discover useful patterns to improve energy efficient building design. This paper utilizes the technology of data mining to automatically extract concepts, interrelationships and patterns of interest from a large dataset. By applying data mining technology to the analysis of energy efficient building designs one can identify valid, useful, and previously unknown patterns of energy simulation modeling.

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A STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COST MODEL BASED ON THE OWNER'S DECISION MAKING AT THE EARLY STAGES OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

  • Choong-Wan Koo;Sang H. Park;Joon-oh Seo;TaeHoon Hong;ChangTaek Hyun
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.676-684
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    • 2009
  • Decision making at the early stages of a construction project has a significant impact on the project, and various scenarios created based on the owner's requirements should be considered for the decision making. At the early stages of a construction project, the information regarding the project is usually limited and uncertain. As such, it is difficult to plan and manage the project (especially cost planning). Thus, in this study, a cost model that could be varied according to the owner's requirements was developed. The cost model that was developed in this study is based on the case-based reasoning (CBR) methodology. The model suggests cost estimation with the most similar historical case as a basis for the estimation. In this study, the optimization process was also conducted, using genetic algorithms that reflect the changes in the number of project characteristics and in the database in the model according to the owner's decision making. Two optimization parameters were established: (1) the minimum criteria for scoring attribute similarity (MCAS); and (2) the range of attribute weights (RAW). The cost model proposed in this study can help building owners and managers estimate the project budget at the business planning stage.

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A REAL-TIME PMIS BASED INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

  • Kyusung Lee;Hojeong Song;Jaehyun Choi
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.352-358
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    • 2013
  • As amount of information in construction industry is growing, the role of information system in project management is becoming increasingly important. With the emerging IT application to the advancing construction industry, construction project management system with advanced technology has been progressed vigorously to improve construction productivity and management efficiency. Recently, a web-based Project Management Information System (PMIS) is developed to support decision-making process by efficiently managing project related information generated from various discipline. Many firms are in the process of developing the PMIS system or already have been applied the system to various projects. However, PMIS is still in its early stage of development to be applied at industrial plant construction projects that process management is significantly emphasized for the successful execution of the project. With the complexity of the industrial plant projects, the industry practitioners need to be able to visualize the construction schedule information to manage the project efficiently. This study suggests methodologies for improving PMIS specialized for industrial plant piping construction projects to estimate the baseline schedule and performance measurement more accurately by developing a framework for the piping construction projects. By using this developed system, the researchers expect that piping construction projects will be more efficiently managed on a real-time basis through measuring progress of piping at each and every state of progress milestone and provide management with opportunities to forecast the level of efforts required to execute the remaining work scope in a timely manner

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Digital Barrier-Free and Psychosocial Support for Students with Disabilities in Distance Learning Environments

  • Kravchenko, Oksana;Koliada, Natalia;Berezivska, Larysa;Dikhtyarenko, Svitlana;Baida, Svitlana;Danylevych, Larysa
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2022
  • The article clarifies the conditions for information, digital and educational accessibility for higher education seekers with disabilities in terms of distance learning caused by quarantine restrictions. It is established that such conditions are regulated by international and Ukrainian legal documents (The Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Sustainable Development Goals, Law of Ukraine "On Education", Law of Ukraine "On Higher Education", Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in Ukraine 2021-2031, Development Strategy areas of innovation for the period up to 2030, Development strategy of the sphere of innovation activity for the period up to 2030). As a part of information barrierlessness, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) should provide access to information in various formats and using technologies, in particular Braille script, large-type printing, audio description (audio descriptive commenting), sign language interpretation, subtitling, a format suitable for reading by screen access programs, formats of simple speech, easy-to-read formats, means of alternative communication. The experience of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University is described. In particular, special attention is paid to the study of sign language: in view of this, the initiative group implemented the project "Learning to hear and overcome social isolation together" with the financial support of the British Council in Ukraine. Within the framework of digital accessibility, the official website of the Faculty of Social and Psychological Education has been adapted for the visually impaired in accordance with WCAG 2.0 World Standards. In 2021, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University implemented the project "Cultural, Recreational and Tourist Cherkasy Region: Inclusive Social 3D Map" funded by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation; a site with available content for online travel in the region to provide barrier-free access to the historical and cultural heritage of Cherkasy region was created. Educational accessibility is achieved by increasing the number of people with special educational needs, receiving education in inclusive groups; activities of the Center for Social and Educational Integration and Inclusive Rehabilitation Social Tourism "Bez barieriv" ("Without barriers"); implementation of a research topic for financing the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine: "Social and psychological rehabilitation of children and youth with special educational needs by means of inclusive tourism"; implementation of the project "Social inclusion of distance educational process"; development of information campaigns to popularize the ideas of accessibility, the need for its implementation, ongoing training programs and competitions, etc.