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Sui Pheng Low - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Construction Industry in Nigeria
Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance, 2015Co-Authors: Yomi Babatunde, Sui Pheng LowAbstract:Following from the preceding chapter, this chapter focuses on the Construction Industry in Nigeria, being the host country to the Chinese firms in the context of this study. Similarly, it covers the development of the Construction Industry in Nigeria and key players and highlights the perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of Nigeria’s Construction Industry.
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Construction Industry in China
Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance, 2015Co-Authors: Yomi Babatunde, Sui Pheng LowAbstract:Being a cross-cultural study, this chapter provides a review of China’s Construction Industry. It provides an overview of China, covers the development of the Construction Industry including foreign direct investments in China, and highlights the perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of the Chinese Construction Industry.
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China’s Construction Industry
Lean Construction Management, 2014Co-Authors: Shang Gao, Sui Pheng LowAbstract:China has demonstrated an astonishing economic growth capability to the world. Since the introduction of the open door policy, China’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth has amounted to over 8% annually in recent years (National Bureau of Statistics of China 2011). This economic success cannot be achieved without contributions from infrastructural and urban development, or without rapid growth in the Construction Industry. According to National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBSC 2011), the Construction Industry in China has accounted for approximately 6% of GDP since 2006. Employment in the Construction Industry also accounted for about 7% of the total permanent employment in the urban areas of China. A characteristic of China’s Construction Industry is the large share of labour-only subcontracting, often on the basis of individual self-employed labourers from rural areas of China. As NBSC (2011) noted, by the end of 2010, there were 71,863 registered firms employing 41.6 million people in the Construction Industry, excluding the labour subcontractors. This created a total output of 9603.1 billion RMB (approximately US$1538.6 billion). Statistically, these figures clearly indicate the leading position of the Construction Industry and its enormous achievements. However, its performance over the past several years still suggests that the Industry faces serious difficulties.
Meng Liao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Linkage studies of China's urbanization and Construction Industry
2015 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), 2015Co-Authors: Meng LiaoAbstract:Urbanization is the universal law in the process of all countries' economic and social development, Construction Industry is an important material production sector of the national economy, so linkage studies of urbanization and Construction Industry have great significance for the healthy development of economic and social. The paper uses co integration test, Granger causality test to establish VAR model, and analysis the dynamic relationship between urbanization and the Construction Industry with impulse response function and variance decomposition to solve the problem of how to measure the correlation structure between urbanization and the Construction Industry. Research shows that there is only one co integration relationship between urbanization and the Construction Industry, the Construction Industry does Granger cause urbanization but urbanization does not Granger cause the Construction Industry, and Construction Industry increasingly promotes urbanization but the promoting function of urbanization on Construction Industry is not obvious, the Construction Industry can be explained by the fluctuation of urbanization but urbanization cannot explain the Construction Industry's fluctuations.
Salahuddin Nurul Norliana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Study of women career in Construction Industry
2015Co-Authors: Salahuddin Nurul NorlianaAbstract:The achievement of women in different field in Malaysia is no more hesitating which they can compete with men in the Construction Industry field. There are misconceptions that women are weak and unable to be good leader or workers as compared to men. Other than that, there are many obstacles that exist for women who want to work in the Construction Industry. Women need to be prepared in terms of profound knowledge, expertise, work encounters and the willingness to comply at the work environment. The main problem that encountered by women when they are involved in the Construction Industry is risk and conflict. Besides that, the scope of appropriate work for women in Construction Industry or field is identified. In addition, this research was carried out through a literature review of the topics that related to the factors that led to the liability and conflict that come upon by women as workers in the Construction Industry or fields. The masculinity and feminization of Construction engineering, sex discrimination and harassment on site, work environment and work hours and intellectual and physical capability is the main factors that led to challenges and risks for women working in the Construction field are. In this research the 100 questionnaires were distributed to women and men who working in the Construction Industry which is currently developing Construction project such as Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Penang and Pahang and were selected through simple random sampling method but only 68 questionnaires have been completed by the respondents. All data was analysed using software Statistical Package for Social Science 22 (SPSS) to acquire min statistic and standard deviation. From the questionnaire, it found that female and male have different levels or agreement with all factors of risk and conflict that encountered. This research will be supportive to any women in identifying the most suitable careers for themselves in Construction Industry or field and also to know the factors that cause fewer women working in the Construction Industry or field.
Nur Syazwani - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Safety management in Construction Industry inMalaysia
2015Co-Authors: Binti Mohd Hassan, Nur SyazwaniAbstract:The Construction Industry is well known as the most dangerous Industry among other Industry as there are lots of accidents and injuries that happen. Some of the main factors that contribute to these are human behaviour, insecure Construction site, the difficulties of works, dangerous machinery and equipment used on site, and unsafe safety culture. Therefore, this dissertation is to investigate safety management in Construction Industry in Malaysia. This topic was chosen because safety is very important in the Construction Industry as this Industry is easily exposed to hazards and danger. Even though the Malaysia’s government has introduced so many standards and regulations, the rate of accident at a Construction site is still high. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is to identify how to minimize the risk and maximize the safety in the Construction Industry. An efficient safety management will help in reducing the number of accidents, fatalities and injuries that involves workers and properties. Safety awareness should become a culture among all the parties involves in the Construction Industry instead of being perceived as policies being forced on them.
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Safety management in Construction Industry inMalaysia
2015Co-Authors: Binti Mohd Hassan, Nur SyazwaniAbstract:The Construction Industry is well known as the most dangerous Industry among other Industry as there are lots of accidents and injuries that happen. Some of the main factors that contribute to these are human behaviour, insecure Construction site, the difficulties of works, dangerous machinery and equipment used on site, and unsafe safety culture. Therefore, this dissertation is to investigate safety management in Construction Industry in Malaysia. This topic was chosen because safety is very important in the Construction Industry as this Industry is easily exposed to hazards and danger. Even though the Malaysia’s government has introduced so many standards and regulations, the rate of accident at a Construction site is still high. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation is to identify how to minimize the risk and maximize the safety in the Construction Industry. An efficient safety management will help in reducing the number of accidents, fatalities and injuries that involves workers and properties. Safety awareness should become a culture among all the parties involves in the Construction Industry instead of being perceived as policies being forced on them.
Albert P. C. Chan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Quality Assurance in the Construction Industry
Architectural Science Review, 1996Co-Authors: Albert P. C. ChanAbstract:The success of a project can be evaluated by the degree to which it meets the customer's requirements. Achieving this requires not only the resources of a number of organisations and individuals, but also the successful interaction amongst these parties. The concept of Quality Assurance has arisen to ensure that customer demands, and a level of quality and conformance are achieved. Quality Assurance is provided through the implementation of systemic management techniques ensuring control of the activities carried out by each party. This paper provides a review of the topic of Quality Assurance. In particular it looks at the meaning of quality assurance and the needs for its introduction into the Construction Industry. Current quality standards in the Construction Industry and the alternative quality systems, including the British Property Federation system, the Construction Industry Development Association's Code of Practice, and the Building and Construction Council's Quality Assessment Scheme are discus...
