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Exploring Long-Term Performance in Design-Build Best-Value Evaluation Criteria

  • Calahorra-Jimenez, Maria;Poore, Tanner
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.74-82
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    • 2022
  • Improving long-term performance in highway projects is an imperative goal for public administrations. Project delivery and procurement methods might provide an opportunity to align design and construction processes with this goal. Previous studies have explored whether project delivery methods impact the long-term performance of highway projects. However, these studies did not focus specifically on how core elements within the procurement might relate to long-term performance. Thus, this research aims to fill this gap by exploring to what extent and how long-term evaluation criteria are considered in design-build best-value procurement of highway projects. To this end, content analysis was conducted on 100 projects procured between 2009 and 2019 by 19 DOTs across the U.S. The analysis of 365 evaluation criteria found that (1) roughly 11% of them related to long-term performance. (2) The weight given to these criteria in the overall technical proposal was lower than 30%. (3) Sixty-five percent (65%) of long-term evaluation criteria focused on design while 15% related to materials and technology, respectively. The results of this study are a first steppingstone to initiate a deep exploration of the relationship between procurement practices and actual project performance. Currently, with sustainability and life cycle assessments being top concerns in infrastructure projects, this line of research might be of particular interest to DOTs and highway agencies across the U.S. and worldwide.

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The Impact of Project Manager's Leadership in Private-Public-Partnership(PPP) on Project Citizenship Behavior and Project Performance (민간투자사업 프로젝트 관리자의 리더십이 프로젝트 시민행동과 프로젝트 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Hwang, Jae-Seung;Park, So-Hyun;Kim, Seung-Chu
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.103-114
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    • 2018
  • Public-Private-Partnership(PPP) is becoming a popular form of projects in construction industry worldwide. Normally, the management team of PPP project consists of various experts from different disciplines such as construction engineer, bank financier, contract manager, investors, etc. The diversity of team members causes difficulties in managing the team efficiently and furthermore for the smooth execution of the project itself. One of the solutions to this issue might be the application of citizenship behavior by the team members. This study conducts an empirical investigation of the effect of project citizenship behavior on the project performance. We have collected data by using a questionnaire from those with PPP project experiences in the domestic construction industry. The results show that project citizenship behavior has full mediating effects between PM's leadership and the project performance. This study has an academic significance in that it is the first attempt to apply the concept and to show the effect of citizenship behavior in project management discipline, particularly in construction industry, in Korea. We also expect that the project management teams for PPP projects would benefit from the findings of this study.

A Case Study of Asphalt Pavement Construction Quality Assurance Using the Quality Related Specification Software

  • Jeong, M. Myung;Jung, Younghan
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.14-21
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    • 2016
  • One of the major issues in the material-based or acceptance quality characteristics asphalt pavement Quality Assurance (QA) is that the method does not have rationality to link between the individual materials and the projected performance of the pavement. A new asphalt mix QA method has been recently developed under a national research project using the probabilistic Performance Related Specification (PRS). This advanced PRS QA methodology integrates the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design$^{(R)}$ technology with the simple performance test concept that bridges the material characteristics with the pavement performance. This paper presents a case study of asphalt pavement performance using the developed PRS QA computer program, named Quality Related Specification Software (QRSS), with an actual pavement project, to demonstrate the developed PRS procedure and to assess the robustness of QRSS in terms of the rationality of the distress predictions. The results of this limited case study show that the new PRS QA method reasonably predicts the pavement performance, properly applied the probabilistic methods, and produced rational pay adjustment.

Measuring Performance in Egyptian Construction Firms Applying Quality Management Systems

  • Abd Elhamid, Manal S.;Ghareeb, Sahar.Sh.
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.18-27
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    • 2011
  • Egyptian construction firms (ECF) started recently to adopt quality management system (QMS) as a way to develop and improve their performance as previous studies have shown. However, considering all the firm's aspects in a competitive way is a crucial process for the ECF's culture. This research is trying to indicate the role of the QMS implementation in measuring performance (MP) through developing a model for measuring performance at the organizational level, and to explore its impact on the organizations that adopt QMS. This model is based on specific elements and their related indicators which have been derived from national approaches and models of MP. This model determines the performance level (PL) of the organization that is measured by means of a point system. Weights of the elements in the point system considered both the elements' importance in the international models and its real practice in the ECFs. This model has been validated using another questionnaire and the majority of surveyed experts agreed that the proposed model can be applied effectively.

Construction Company TQM Impact on the Activities Performance (건설회사 TQM 활동이 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ja-Yeon;Kang, In-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.319-330
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    • 2015
  • This study examines the factors configuration management quality of the construction company, and to analyze the impact of these factors on Project Performance and Company Performance. That quality construction management configuration factors, chief executives, corporate strategy, organizational management, information technology, and partners five variables, Project Performance variables, process management, quality management, cost management, safety management, environmental management five variables, and Company Performance parameters of financial competence and organizational satisfaction, quality of work three variables, the overall causal relationship between the presence of specific activities and management quality, classified according to the size of the company were verified by the difference in impact between the two groups.

Analysis of Performance Factors of Defense Logistics Strategy (국방물류전략의 성과요인 분석)

  • Kim, Jinho;Lee, Seong-Yoon;Lee, Jaiill;Seo, Jeonghun;Kang, Seokjoong
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.21-35
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    • 2018
  • This study reconstructed the military logistics improvement project currently being implemented by ROK military as a defense logistics strategy. In addition the factors affecting the performance of the defense logistics strategy are analyzed using PLS. The significance of this study is as follows. First, the defense logistics improvement project was structured as a defense logistics strategy according to function. Second, PLS is used for performance factor analysis. Most of the existing defense researches utilized the ML structural equation. However, this study used the PLS structural equation in view of the fact that each detail project is the formation of defense logistics strategy. Third, we identified projects that have a substantial impact on defense logistics performance and those that do not. We found that inventory, process, and information strategy influenced logistics performance among defense logistics strategies. On the other hand, it was confirmed that the facility/equipment strategy had no significant effect on defense logistics performance.

Study on Performance Evaluation of Academic Information Distribution Project in Scientific Technology Field (과학기술분야 학술정보 유통사업 성과평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kwak, Seung-Jin;Kim, Jeong-Taek;Park, Yong-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.441-462
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    • 2007
  • As country try expand R&D investment and enhance its efficiency to improve the national competitiveness, research is needed to conduct qualitative enhancement and derive progressive future strategy in relation to the academic information distribution project in scientific technology field. In this study, BSC-based performance indicators were applied to an institute that is the representative of domestic academic information distribution institutes in the field of scientific technology to evaluate project performance, and then to analyze portfolio of using such evaluation results. As for the items of evaluation for the performance indicators of academic information distribution project in the scientific technology field, 12 items that includes information resource quality, information service quality, user satisfaction and economically useful value of academic information from four(4) viewpoints such as information resource, information service, user and economic viewpoints. In the portfolio analysis, it was conducted by performance indicators and by elements of the individual performance indicators as well. Based on the results of performance evaluation and portfolio analysis, the improvement method by viewpoints on academic information distribution project of an institute was suggested.

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A Study about Improvement Idea for Performance-based Project Delivery system (성능발주방식의 개념 정의 및 활용방안에 관한 연구 - 공동주택 성능표시 제도를 바탕으로 한 발주자를 위한 체크리스트 -)

  • Lee, Ha-Seung;Baek, Hun-Ku;Shin, Seung-Ha;Lee, Jung-Won;Kim, Kyung-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.634-637
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    • 2008
  • Performance-based Project Delivery System(PPDS) is one of Project Delivery System that when owner ask for performance than constructor feel free to choose materials, technology, an engineering method. PPDS rank higher position than Performance Warranty Contract and Technical Proposal Bid. This study aims to propose Improvement Idea for PPDS that based Housing Performance Grading Indication System. 'Request-performance Checklist' is used as communication means(between owner and constructor) and a kind of corroborative facts make the procedures achievement of project like contract easier.

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The Structural Relationships of Farm Village Development Work, Brand Equity and Social and Economic Performance (농촌지역개발사업 지원과 농촌마을의 브랜드자산 및 농촌마을의 사회경제적 효과의 구조적 관계)

  • Lee, Byung-Jun;Ahn, Dong-Seop;Back, Seoung-Woo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.600-612
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    • 2020
  • The objective of this study is to analyze the relationships among support for farm village development work, farm village's brand equity and social and economic performance. The questionnaire was performed for 380 villagers in Jeollabuk-do Province. The surveyed data was analyzed by structural equation model analysis and Sobel test. Support for farm village development work such as living environment improvement project, income foundation creation project, rural tourism facilities project, and regional competency education project showed statistically significant positive effects on the farm village's brand equity. The farm village's brand equity also showed a statistically significant positive effect on the social and economic performance. The support for farm village development work such as living environment improvement project, village landscape improvement project, income foundation creation project, rural tourism facilities project, and regional competency education project showed no statistically significant effects on the social and economic performance. But, they showed statistically significant effects on the social and economic performance in indirect manner with the mediating effect of the farm village's brand equity. In this study, the effect factors on the farm village's brand equity and social and economic performance was verified in farm village development strategy, and then, it is meaningful to present the role and importance of support for farm village development work.

Design of a Project Management Maturity Evaluation Model using Information System Audit Checklists (정보시스템 감리점검항목을 활용한 프로젝트 조직성숙도 평가 모델의 설계)

  • Kim, Yun-Seok;Cho, Eun-Ae;Baik, Doo-Kwon
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.105-117
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    • 2008
  • Generally, project audit provides the service which accomplishes a project successfully by checking the management activity of information system project, indicating a controversial point and reflecting the improvement issues based on project audit check list. In addition, the projects are managed by using the project management maturity model based on process. However, the effect is not big as we except projects performance of real world. In this paper. to solve these problems, the project management maturity evaluation model which is connected with project audit check list and organizational maturity model survey items is designed. Thus, we propose the model which can improve the project performance through the project evaluation of customer's project and development part and the evaluation of organization level as we design that it is possible to not only audit the project but also evaluate it before and after the project.