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Record W2156885087 · doi:10.1061/9780784412329.032

Continuous Process Planning and Controlling Techniques for Construction Productivity Performance Enhancement

2012· article· en· W2156885087 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueConstruction Research Congress 2012 · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProductivityMainstreamDocumentationObjectivity (philosophy)Process (computing)AccountabilityProcess managementControl (management)Knowledge managementComputer scienceEngineeringManagement sciencePolitical scienceEconomicsArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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Many studies have revealed that the productivity of the construction industry has been exhibiting an increasingly lacklustre performance, despite the fact that the last century witnessed the most radical advancements in the technologies. The paper critically analyzes the contemporary measures in productivity control and management practices based on an investigation conducted on construction processes, documentation, perception, productivity personnel, and awareness focusing on a number of construction projects both in Canada and the United States. The observations were verified and justified based on the responses from the construction industry personnel. Results of the analysis of contemporary productivity practices and potential issues are further elaborated and discussed in detail in the subsequent paragraphs. The paper also elaborates all the insights and the inferences resulted in the preliminary study, from a new perspective that proposes to practice productivity control and management as a mainstream function complementing overall project management process with objectivity in implementation by way of a dedicated/committed person and a structured framework of actions. The paper further extends to introduce the basic concepts of the new Construction Productivity Improvement Officer (CPIO) role. The CPIO concept is further discussed related to its approaches towards addressing the key issues identified as lack of accountability, poor integration of isolated tasks, discrete functionality, lack of planning and controlling measures.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score0.937

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.323
Teacher spread0.292 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it