[PDF] Top 20 The development of Web enabled Knowledge­ based (WBK) systems for the South African construction industry

... new Web language for describing ...and construction throughout the life cycle of ...to Web documents that identify information semantically and thus go beyond the relative primitive formatting, ... See full document

... of development and production costs by ...and knowledge can help drive down costs and thus indirectly promote efficient supply chains and value for ...the construction industry that are ... See full document

... the South African Construction Industry’s report compiled in June 2011 revealed that the gross fixed capital formation in non-residential buildings in South Africa in 2010 amounted to R41 928m ... See full document

... technological development of materials and equipment made the construction industry subject to more risks than any other ...the South African construction industry had a ... See full document

... team development, conflict management) and important skills (negotiation, trust, explaining, questioning, reinforcement, reflecting, public communication, humour and laughter, self-disclosure), which together with ... See full document

... and development is followed in the forty-hour value management ...the construction industry and it is anticipated that this approach will also gain wide acceptance in the South African ... See full document

... an industry, considered by some to be in crisis, where conflict and dispute are regular and common occurrences, every effort should be made to reduce the levels of conflict and dispute or at least settle disputes ... See full document

... Wagner & Spencer (1996: 71) defined organisational culture as “the personality of the company”. This personality includes what is valued, the dominant leadership style, language and symbols, procedures and routines, ... See full document

... In reviewing the top ten relative factors, it is notable that the first seven factors are all related to the project manager’s managerial and personal behaviour, as opposed to his/her technical skills. Factors ranking ... See full document

... are based on national standardised specification systems, such as the National Building Specification or NBS (Great Britain), the National Specification System or NATSPEC (Australia), Master Specification ... See full document

... leading construction firms, representing 75% of the total industry output (BMI, 2013: ...the construction market (CIDB, 2013: ...the industry, with over 70% of the building projects and 30% of ... See full document

... building industry in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere in the developed ...the South African construction industry in newly completed buildings are increasing and becoming a serious ... See full document

... Subsequent to these methods of data-gathering, three selected deemed-to-be knowledgeable individuals on the application of the JBCC guarantees (D’Arcy-Donnelly, Spence & Fourie, 2008) were contacted via email, two of ... See full document

... the construction of large-scale infrastructure ...non-residential) construction market, 80% of orders in the sector come from a single source - from one source - the state funded by EU ...for ... See full document

... its development. The majority are spent on new infrastructure development including roads and bridges and the upgrading of existing ...infrastructure development, the practice of knowledge ... See full document

... discipline knowledge management that will direct all efforts to improve quality in all stages, from design to handover in order to meet the requirements within the time constraint, budget and to the client ...of ... See full document

... The difficulty associated with demonstrating validity in questionnaire surveys is acknowledged (Platt, 2001: 33). The analysis is based mainly on statistical significance testing. Consequently, the results do not ... See full document

... in construction (cost, time and quality) provide an indication as to the performance of a contracting firm, they do not in isolation, provide a balanced view of the firm’s performance and usually, are implemented ... See full document

... be used in the integration process. Regarding the BIM data, the selected IfcOWL is an officially standardized vocabulary for describing modeling constructs by performing an exact syntax mapping between the EXPRESS ... See full document

... Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) standard was introduced to the wider community by a 2005 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working draft [1], and further developed and refined in a 2009 W3C rec- ... See full document