Downgrading construction incidents
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Asian Architect & Contractor, v.13, no.10, 1983, pp. 73-79
Abstract
The financial losses resulting from various incidents on typical building construction sites are reported. Field data was collected on three sites over a period of nine months. Incidents were recorded by three observers on a daily basis including data on the cause of the event, the direct losses incurred and the contractors involved. The 658 incidents reported were analysed to determine the general charateristics of incidents, the level of field control possible and the incident costs. Overall losses on the individual sites are compared while combined results for all three pojects are examined. Particular attention is paid to safety-related incidents. Limitations of the monitoring programme are discussed. The results indicate that downgrading incidents are resposible for a substantial loss on construction projects, however, the observations show that most losses could be eliminated through up-graded on-site management. Recommendations are made for reducing the losses by improving such management functions as planning, scheduling, follow-up, equipment maintenance and problem documentation.
(1) Introduction
(2) General background
(3) Framework for data collection and analysis
(4) Results
(a) Incident classification
(b) Level of control
(c) Contractor involvement
(d) Classification by management function
(5) Limitations of field study
(6) Analysis of results
(7) Practical application
(8) Summary and conclusions
(9) Acknowledgements
(10) Appendix-references
This paper was first presented at the April 26-30, 1982, ASCE National Convention and Exposition, held at Las Vegas, Nev.
V. K. Handa is Prof., dept. of Civ. Engrg., Construction Group, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
Doug Rivers is Engr., Richard & B. A. Ryan Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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1983
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en