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PUBLIC BENEFIT OF INNOVATION IN CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE
Pages 11-16

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... · 50 percent Reduction in Project Delivery Time · 50 percent Reduction in Operations/Maintenance Costs · 30 percent Increase in Facility Comfort and Production · 50 percent Fewer Occupant-Related Illnesses and Injuries 50 percent Less Waste and Pollution 50 percent Greater Durability and Flexibility 50 percent Reduction in Construction Work-Related Illness and Injuries If we expect to malce any progress along the road toward achieving these goals, I think it has to be from implementing innovation. What are the barriers to achieving progress toward these goals?
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From page 12...
... We need a system of developing a knowledge base to provide the technological innovation and make it practical. Technology also can play a role in providing a mechanism to integrate some of the disparate views, because the construction industry is very fragmented.
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From page 13...
... There was a knowledge base developed that led to the design and application of construction for welded steel frame structures. However, the Northridge earthquake, and even more recently, the Kobe earthquake, have shaken structural engineering confidence in the performance and safety of the welded steel moment connections that were used in these structures.
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From page 14...
... None of these was ever really examined to enhance the knowledge base, and the loading rate was never studied. Technology from construction practices that we know to be fatal to fracture in bridge construction was never transferred to building design and construction practice.
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From page 16...
... His range of experience includes: project management, construction contract administration, architectural design and detailing, design of exterior walls and roof systems, investigation and analysis of exterior wall and roof system failures, technical and code evaluations of existing individual buildings and hospital complexes, and value engineering analysis. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Michigan Society of Architects, American Society for Testing and Materials, Building Officials and Code Administrators International, and The Masonry Society.
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Key Terms

  • limited amount
  • construction industry
  • shared profit
  • moment connections
  • profit potential

  • user cost
  • welded moment
  • completely ignored
  • northridge earthquake
  • welded steel

  • structures subjected
  • wholesale implementation
  • initial research
  • seismic codes
  • technological institute

  • considered sufficient
  • architectural design
  • intelligent decisions
  • construction goals
  • significant challenges

  • contract administration
  • procurement practices
  • building officials
  • adverse conditions
  • national construction

  • transportation shuts
  • building design
  • ignore safety
  • project management
  • produce steel


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