...Jukka Majava; Harri Haapasalo; Kirsi Aaltonen Purpose The “big room” concept and lean philosophy have become increasingly popular in the construction industry. Visual control is a central part of lean philosophy and the big room concept; its aim is to improve information flow, joint problem...

... circumstances make a deeper impact on the public road than was initially anticipated. The developer commissions a design. At a preliminary meeting or during the permission procedure the municipality decides whether the plan meets the criteria for site safety and nuisance control. The traditional process...

...Ramesh Marasini; Nashwan Dawood The monitoring and control of business processes and their variables have strategic importance in order to respond to the dynamics of the world of business. Many monitoring processes are focussed on controlling time and cost and the overall performance is evaluated...

... on the collaborative aspects that need to be developed between man and machine in order to make effective use of these resources on site. Key words: automation; autonomous unmanned ground vehicle; control; navigation; robotic devices Introduction The workspace of on-site construction is characteristically dispersed...

... theory can be applied to construction disputes evaluation (CDE), a fuzzy CDE model has been developed based on the knowledge extracted from practitioners in Hong Kong. The fuzzy CDE system consists of four components: dispute identification, dispute analysis; dispute evaluation; and dispute control...