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LEED PERCEPTION DISPARITIES: DESIGNERS VERSUS NON-DESIGNERS

  • Hyun Woo Lee;Youngchul Kim;Doyoon Kim;Kunhee Choi
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.36-41
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    • 2013
  • With the increased interest in green buildings, the building industry has been experiencing a fast-growing demand for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for the last decade. Still, it is not unusual to see various barriers and issues during its implementation, and experience tells that they can result in harming the overall project performance with reworks, lower productivity, schedule delays, and cost overruns. In order to better understand the industry's observation on issues and their consequences during LEED implementation, we distributed an online survey, and a total of 53 responses were received. The survey results indicate that (1) both designers and non-designers (e.g., contractors) select 'added costs to design and construction' as the biggest barrier; (2) both designers and non-designers select 'decision made too late in the design process' as the most frequently observed issue; and (3) non-designers indicate higher perceived severity in every consequence criteria than designers. The statistical analyses reveal that cost overruns are the most severe impact observed and have a statistically significant relationship with responses in regard to the barrier to LEED implementation.

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INTEGRATED LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS CONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS: A HIGHWAY PROJECT CASE

  • Woo-Sik Jang;Heedae Park;Sungmin Kim;Seung Heon Han;Jong Seo Jeon
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.273-279
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    • 2011
  • Concerns over the environment have spawned a number of research studies in the construction industry, as the construction of built environments and large infrastructures involves diverse environmental impacts and loads of hazardous emissions. Many researchers have attempted to quantify these environmental loads, including greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide, to name a few. However, little research has been conducted regarding integrating the life-cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental loads with the current life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) approach. This study aims to estimate the environmental loads as a monetary value using the European Climate Exchange (ECX) rate and, then, to integrate those impacts with the pure construction cost. Toward this end, this study suggests an integrated approach that takes into account the environmental effect on the evaluation of the life-cycle cost (LCC). The bill of quantity (BOQ) data of a real highway project are collected and analyzed for this purpose. As a result, considering the environmental loads in the pavement process, the total LCC increased 16% from the traditional LCC cost. This study suggests an integrated approach that will account the environmental effect on the LCC. Additionally, this study is expected to contribute to better decision-making, from the perspective of more sustainable development, for government as well as for contractors.

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The Role of Electronic Trade Platform in the Information Technology Era

  • Lee, Bong-Soo
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.52
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    • pp.47-71
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    • 2011
  • This thesis examines the problems faced in the electronic trade platform for which improvements are necessary, and suggests various ways of overcoming those problems. Practical implications regarding the advancement of Korea's u-TradeHub system are as follows. First, from the technical and legal aspects, to make up for a lack of support systems for spread of users, it is required to promote customized advertising strategies through Ministry of Knowledge Economy and establish a global certification system. Second, document standardization and digitalization should be achieved in advance to make the documents distributed through the e-Trade platform in a seamless manner. Furthermore, an ongoing global network development project should be promoted through the e-Trade platform to achieve standardization. Third, from the operational aspect, it is important to maintain an integrated and systematic relationship with related organizations. Because vertical integration among logistics service providers and GSCM are enabled through the e-Trade platform, it is necessary to standardize global network-based linkage and operating systems.

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Features of Implementing Pedagogical Practices on the Example of EU Countries' Experience

  • Mykhailo Poplavskyi
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 2024
  • Studying at a modern university involves using modern methods and the latest advances in science and education, which applies to Ukraine and all higher education institutions in Europe, determining the relevance of the study and its international significance. The study aims to analyze and implement effective and innovative practices that can be used in integrated educational programs, which include interactive work in education at the European level. The use of general scientific approaches, such as theoretical, statistical, and empirical, allows achieving the set goals. The central hypothesis of the research is the presentation of the best pedagogical practices in the educational program, which includes interactive and universal. The results of the study prove the effectiveness of interactive training. Future research is devoted to developing new pedagogical practices and the development of algorithms for their implementation.

Design Procedure for System in Package (SIP) Business

  • Kwon, Heung-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.109-119
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    • 2003
  • o In order to start SIP Project .Marketing (& ASIC team) should present biz planning, schedule, device/SIP specs., in SIP TFT prior to request SIP development for package development project. .In order to prevent (PCB) revision, test, burn-in, & quality strategy should be fixed by SIP TFT (PE/Test, QA) prior to request for PKG development. .Target product price/cost, package/ test cost should be delivered and reviewed. o Minimum Information for PCB Design, Package Size, and Cost .(Required) package form factor: size, height, type (BGA, QFP), Pin count/pitch .(Estimated) each die size including scribe lane .(Estimated) pad inform. : count, pitch, configuration(in-line/staggered), (open) size .(Estimated) each device (I/O & Core) power (especially for DRAM embedded SIP) .SIP Block diagram, and net-list using excel sheet format o Why is the initial evaluation important\ulcorner .The higher logic power resulted in spec. over of DRAM Tjmax. This caused business drop longrightarrow Thermal simulation of some SIP product is essential in the beginning stage of SIP business planning (or design) stage. (i.e., DRAM embedded SIP) .When SIP is developed using discrete packages, the I/O driver Capa. of each device may be so high for SIP. Since I/O driver capa. was optimized to discrete package and set board environment, this resulted in severe noise problem in SIP. longrightarrow In this case, the electrical performance of product (including PKG) should have been considered (simulated) in the beginning stage of business planning (or design).

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A Study on the Strategy of Japan as an Advanced Country in International Grain Distribution Markets

  • Lee, Choon-Gyu;Jung, Myung-Hee;Kim, Jong-Jin
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2014
  • Purpose - The object of this paper is to ascertain how Japan has become a powerful trader in the international grain market. A case in point is the world's third largest U.S. major grain trader, Gavilon, merged with general trading company Marubeni in 2012. What are Japan's strategies and their implications? Research design, data, and methodology - The study analyzed Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries data, and data from daily and weekly papers. The paper employed various data and research methodologies. Results - The Lee Myeong-Bak government tried for three years to create a company similar to Cargill, but the project eventually failed. On the other hand, Japan has emerged as a leader in the international grain distribution market for the past 50 years, with the cooperation of government and private companies. Conclusion - The findings of this study show that Korea, China, India, and other countries' international major grain companies now compete to be powerful, major grain traders. South Korea could be the leader of the international grain market through the development of a more careful and long-term strategy.

Economic Value Estimation of Agricultural ODA Projects Using Contingent Valuation Method : Focused on the KOPIA of Rural Development Administration (조건부가치측정법을 활용한 공적개발원조의 경제적 가치 추정: 농촌진흥청 해외농업기술개발사업(KOPIA)을 중심으로)

  • Moon, Kwang-Min
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.548-560
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    • 2021
  • This study estimates the amount of willingness to pay of the general public by applying the contingent value method to the Korea Program for International cooperation in Agricultural technology(KOPIA), a representative project of the Rural Development Administration. Prior to measuring the amount of willingness to pay for the KOPIA project, a survey of the perception of agriculture and rural areas and respondents' basic perception of public development assistance showed a positive perception of official development assistance in general. In particular, many respondents said that aid from the international community in the past contributed to Korea's economic and social development along with the importance of the international community helping the poor in underdeveloped countries. As a result of estimating the acceptance probability regression model by including the public awareness as a variable, the higher the income of the respondents and the more positive the perception of public development aid, the higher the amount of willingness to pay. The average annual payment amount per household derived from the acceptance probability regression model was estimated to be about 30,729 won.Based on the results of this analysis, several policy implications related to the public development aid policy of Korea were presented.

STUDY ON STANDARIZATION OF ENFORCEMENT DESIGN IN UBIQUITOUS CITY (U-CITY) SYSTEM

  • Taewan Kim;Sung-Nam Hong;Changdu Son;Junhyun Park;Sun-Kyu Park
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1410-1413
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    • 2009
  • A city development has been focused on solving a housing shortage of city resulted from rapid industrialization and population increase in city. However, such a development has caused many problems in environment, economy, safety, and so on. In recent, therefore, a new paradigm of a city development is required, and thus ubiquitous city (U-City) concept appears. U-City development, which combines construction method and IT technique, creates a new composite space, and help people improve quality of life in terms of solving many problems caused by existing method of a city development. However, there is no guide to build U-City up to date, and most present U-City projects have processed following past method of city development. Therefore, an objective of this paper is to suggest an explicit procedure of enforcement design in U-City system.

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Allocation of Design Assurance Level for KASS Based on International Standards (국제표준에 기반한 KASS 개발보증레벨 할당)

  • Bae, Dong-hwan
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2016
  • Since 2014, MOLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport) is carrying out a KASS project to develop and construct Korean SBAS. KASS can cause damage of human & properties if it has some problem during operation. Therefore, system safety assessment for KASS development is very important. Principal point of system safety assessment is the allocation of DAL(design assurance level) based on the hazard identification and classification. In this parer, the author conducts the allocation of DAL for KASS & its sub-systems based on the international standard(SAE ARP4761), which suggests a best practice of aviation system safety assessment. The result of this paper are the first step of system safety assessment, and can be used for further system safety assessment of KASS project.

THE USE OF NUMERICAL MODELS IN SUPPORT OF SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT STUDIES FOR GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES

  • Neerdael, Bernard;Finsterle, Stefan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2010
  • The paper is describing work being developed in the frame of a 5-year IAEA Coordinated Research Programme (CRP) started in late 2005. Participants gained knowledge of modelling methodologies and experience in the development and use of rather sophisticated simulation tools in support of site characterization and performance assessment calculations. These goals were achieved by a coordinated effort, in which the advantages and limitations of numerical models are examined and demonstrated through a comparative analysis of simplified, illustrative test cases. This knowledge and experience should help them address these issues in their own country's nuclear waste program. Coordination efforts during the first three years of the project aimed at enabling this transfer of expertise and maximizing the learning experience of the participants as a group. This was accomplished by identifying common interests of the participants (i.e., Process Modelling and Total System Performance Assessment methodology), and by defining complementary tasks that are solved by the members. Synthesis of all available results by comparative assessments is planned in the coming months. The project will be completed end of 2010. This paper is summarizing activities up to November 2009.