Quality Building Projects Through Constructability

Abstract

In the future, customers of the construction industry will continue to demand projects that cost less, finish faster, and provide higher standards of quality. To meet these objectives, the construction industry must rely on quality improvement strategies like Constructability. Constructability increases the potential for project success by expanding the role of construction expertise into front-end planning and design to anticipate and minimize problems during field operations. Despite prior success on industrial projects, much of the construction industry, particularly the building sector, has not explored or implemented the ideas behind constructability. This thesis attempts to support the use of Constructability as a potential avenue for improvement in building projects by analyzing constructability-related data from 58 projects and presenting constructability observations made during a field study.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA359909

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Miller

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Conditioning
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Engineering
  • Commerce
  • Communication Systems
  • Construction
  • Cost Reductions
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineers
  • Literature Surveys
  • Management Personnel
  • Mechanical Equipment
  • Organizational Structure
  • Regression Analysis
  • Total Quality Management

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  • Economics
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design