| Author | Chen, Wei-chiang |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.ST-88-6 |
| Subject(s) | Construction industry--Management
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Due to the complexity and competitiveness of construction
projects today, "Mechanization of Operations" and " Good
Management" are two most potential approaches to win more
contract by increasing the productivity. Since mechanization
through ROBOTICS has its drawbacks and limitations due to the
impact of environmental influences. Therefore good management may
be considered to be the most significant potential area for
productivity improvement. In this study quantitative system has
been developed to assign relative weighting to various factors
affecting management performance on construction. Questionnaires
were designed to collect empirical data from t h e project managers
regarding the influence of various factors on their project and
also on the relative weighting of factors against themselves.
This data was obtained via direct visits to projects in Hongkong,
Korea & Taiwan and by mails from others; From the rank data, we
generated the relative weighting of factors for all types of
construction, type-oriented construction and country-oriented
construction and discussed the significant differences between
ranks and weightings, then convert e d rank data into numerical and
sorted projects by the job conditions. Finally Linear
Discriminant Function (LDF ) analysis has been used to identify
the job and management conditions based on different combinations
of variables, which were conducted by the correlation analysis ,
to find out the highest correctness of estimate accompanying with
the evaluation index (Z-score ) and the best LDF equation. Thus we
can e stablish the performance evaluation models through the
assumptions and t he critical Z-scores. Comparing the project Z-score which is generated from LDF equation with the critical
values in t h e evaluation mode l, we can assess the " efficiency " of
management as good , fair or poor and make timely, proper
decisions to correct the deficiencies. |
| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Structural Engineering (STE) /Former Name = Structural Engineering and Construction (ST) |
| Chairperson(s) | Chauhan, Roshan Lal
|
| Examination Committee(s) | Jearkjirm, Vithool ;Osakaya, Yoshiyuki
|
| Scholarship Donor(s) | RET-SER Engineering Agency , R.O.C. |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1988 |