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As one of the most important participants in construction industry, construction workers' unsafe behavior is very common on construction sites. From an individual level, this research aims to investigate the relationship among risk perception, risk propensity and unsafe behavior decision-making. A survey is conducted within first-line workers in Chinese construction projects. The results show that:...
This paper is a review of the risk management process and risks commonly associated with construction projects, particularly the roles of insurance and bonding as tools of managing such risks and how to make better use of the insurers' resource in China.
The carbon dioxide emissions of China have been high for a long time. According to the CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion Highlights 2010 Edition, as to 2008, total carbon dioxide emissions of China have surpassed the U.S. Building products is an important part of the national economy and construction industry is charged with the main task of the infrastructure in China. Construction activities is...
Simply supported slab bridges are used extensively in China. How to make them stand firmly when they encounter a great earthquake is necessary. With a conclusion of seismic hazard feature of simply supported slab bridges and Midas/civil, this paper studies the seismic behavior of a simply supported skew slab bridge in Wenchan, county Sichuan province and get the seismic response and structure's weak...
Energy-efficient renovation has been accepted widely as the best solution for upgrading existing residential buildings. In order to guide such real projects in China and maximize the benefits in energy, environmental and economic fields from the activities, in this article a methodology is developed for decision-makers to assist the design of energy-efficient renovation plan in the early stage of...
The benefit of efficient knowledge management has been increasingly recognized by the construction industry globally and in China. However, there are very few studies on the current status of the knowledge management practice in Chinese construction industry. This research is based on a comprehensive survey carried out in many major cities in China, and it provides first-hand data on how tacit knowledge...
Due to its high cost and destructive nature, the pull-out testing is not suitable for the embedding depth of guard rail posts to ensure the safety of highway traffic. The primary goal of this study is to develop a fast and reliable alternative testing method, impact elastic wave based measurement technology, which is normally considered not suitable for testing hallow piles due to rapid attenuation,...
Evaluating the impacts of rural road investment projects is a key content in the rural roads post-evaluation. A good rural road investment project impact evaluation provides the basis for sound policy making. However, because of the lacks of impact evaluation activities and methodology, it has been difficult to know how opportunities provided by rural roads actually filter back into beneficiary outcomes...
Real estate industry as a pillar industry in China develops along with national economy innovation step by step. Real estate economy plays an important role in the whole national economy. Through the discussion on the origin and distinguishing modes of real estate bubbles, the paper takes income-reverting method to measure and test real estate bubbles in Ningbo, and calculates the bubble coefficient...
In the context of rapid industrialization and urbanization in China, improving energy-saving in constructions is of great significance for sustainable development of our economy and society. As a result of misleading understands on the driving forces and characteristics of energy saving, in the existing module of government management, the government carries overburden of regularization and promoting,...
It is considered that construction industrialization is an inevitable trend in China. The experience in the achieved construction industrialization counties indicates that construction industrialization will save construction time, improve building quality, increase labor productivity, save energy and make less pollution. Those advantages change the traditional way into industrialized construction...
Housing industrialization is the inevitable trend of future development in China. Mass Customization becomes an effective way of realizing housing industry because of its requirements of customization and industrialization. Implementation of mass customization relies on the product family platform. This paper researches on building a MC product family integration platform based on value chain of residential...
Energy efficiency retrofit for existing residential buildings is facing a fast development in China. As the first set demonstrative buildings of the Sino-German “Chinese existing Building Energy Efficiency Improvement” project, economic efficiency analysis has been made in this paper. The scheme and cost of Hebei No.1 Residential Quarter are summarized in this paper. Heating energy consumption of...
This paper examines BIM research and application on construction industry in China and provides a view of KPIs. This study establishes a 5-KPIs (quality, cost, time, safety, and energy) model of the BIM impact on construction industry. Then through investigation of 93 valid questionnaires, two kinds of statistical data analysis approaches are conducted and the different results are compared and interpreted...
The green construction is of great significance to promoting the sustainable development strategy of construction industry. The thesis discusses and describes connotation of green construction. According to the contents and concept of green construction technology system, green construction be defined. The environmental loads of green construction can be studied from two aspects of the construction...
Based on the tax burden, book value of fixed assets, depreciation, income and cash flow, this paper analyzes the influence on the taxpayer's balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and statement of change in equity of the VAT reform in China. For the given amount of purchased fixed assets, the result shows that the VAT reform will reduce the tax burden, decrease the book value of fixed...
Through analysis of some kinds of economic actions' influence to fire services of China under international commercial crisis, the main constitutes of the fire development strategies of China was analyzed in detail and presented, including the following aspects: the relationship between fire service and economy development, the fire legal system, fire basic infrastructure facilities, fire self operation,...
Applying supply chain management is an effective approach to solve pork quality and safety problems in China at present, and it is the key of high quality pork supply chain management to form and improve quality and safety control abilities for supply chain core enterprises. On the basis of representing the construction of quality safety control abilities of core enterprises, this paper analyses the...
The global commercial crisis caused new problems and new challenges to the fire departments of China. This paper selected the parameters, which could reflect the fire development of current fire situation, including the number of fire event cases, the number of injured and died, and the direct economic losses of fire, and then using gray GM(1,1) prediction model to analysis the fire development trend...
The Inherent Defect Insurance is one kind of commercial insurance and one of the important economic methods to provide protection for the final buyers of the buildings in some developed countries worldwide. The experience of the IDI in other counties indicates that the IDI can reduce the inherent defects of the building and protect the clients free of lost from the inherent defects and damages. According...
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