Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 405-408

Abstract: The construction industry is a pillar industry of Chinese national economy, but also one of the industries with high accident rates. This paper analyzed Chinese construction industry in recent years, production safety situation, which indicated that the building production safety accidents and deaths continued to decline, construction safety production and the overall situation was getting better and better. After management analysis of safety production in construction industry, strengthening the government functions, truly serving people oriented from government to business, and enhancing the safety culture were real solutions of construction management.

Abstract: This paper tries to use systematic approaches for analysis and design of the construction supply chain operation model. According to the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model, SCOR Model of Supply Chain Council, SCC in 1996 and based on this model and application to the SCOR Model, this research places focus on the supplydemand behaviors of the Taiwan High Speed Railroad (HSR) construction process as a case study. This paper uses the concept of SCOR Model and appliance to Dynamic Simulation software, namely, SIMPROCESS, trying to assist in establishing a hierarchical model to explore the behavior of construction supply chain process and developing a performance evaluation method which can help improve supply chain management (SCM) of the construction project.

Abstract: Combining the TOPSIS method and AHP method, established comparison matrix which reflected the importance between the factors in the indicator system. After gotten the weight coefficient vector, compared the calculated TOPSIS standardized decision matrix, and then defined the best supplier and the worst supplier. Calculated the Euclidean distance between each supplier with the best supplier and the worst supplier to get the supplier closeness to the best supplier, and then determined ranking of the alternatives. The last case study verified the reliability and the feasibility of the model.

Abstract: The increasing awareness of the importance of a proper building maintenance management system becomes the main contributing factor for the development of facilities management worldwide. Various building maintenance management system tools become necessary to remain competitive. The widespread use of mobile devices envisions a growing market for new applications in building maintenance. It is well-understood that the use of mobile technologies is critical in building maintenance as the right information needs to be delivered to the right person, at the right time, and at the right place. However, existing building maintenance applications only support the delivery of static modes of information (such as building data and checklists); the information is pre-programmed and is thus not able to take into account the users varying contexts. Building maintenance applications could be made easy and responsive to users wishes if they were context-aware. This paper discusses the key issues in building maintenance management systems and their potential for the use of context-aware computing. Findings show that many building maintenance management systems are complicated and only slowly being adopted in Malaysia. In conclusion, it was found that context-aware building maintenance systems have the potential to simplify the process and increase the usage of computerized maintenance management systems.