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Unlocking Values Through Infrastructure Interdependencies
No full textUrban infrastructure is a complex interdependent system of system. It provides a framework that connect and integrate social, cultural, financial, natural, technological and human values. This paper contributes to the development of new approaches towards urban infrastructure governance, identified as one of the key issues in the field of sustainable urban infrastructure. To do that, we explore cross-sectoral urban infrastructure projects, in which infrastructures supplying different urban functions are connected. This focus on a local level of cross-domain connection allows us to understand the challenges of such connections on a project-level, giving us practical insights into management and governance challenges. We analyse four local projects of cross-sector connections of infrastructures, aiming to understand the collaborative dynamics of governing such projects towards successful outcomes, in terms of overcoming the barriers towards such projects while creating value. Given the high expectations of increased value of integrated urban infrastructures compared to traditional, siloed infrastructure development and management, the insights from local, project-level experiences, in addition to holistic perspectives, can be informative for investment strategy development by private and public stakeholders.Accepted Author ManuscriptUrban Development Managemen
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Construction management abstracts : cumulative abstracts and indexes of journals in construction management, 1983-2000
No full textThe purpose of this document is to provide a single source of reference for
every paper published in the journals directly related to research in
Construction Management.
It is indexed by author and keyword and contains the titles, authors, abstracts
and keywords of every article from the following journals:
• Building Research and Information (BRI)
• Construction Management and Economics (CME)
• Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management (ECAM)
• Journal of Construction Procurement (JCP)
• Journal of Construction Research (JCR)
• Journal of Financial Management in Property and Construction (JFM)
• RICS Research Papers (RICS)
The index entries give short forms of the bibliographical citations, rather than
page numbers, to enable annual updates to the abstracts. Each annual
update will carry cumulative indexes, so that only one index needs to be
consulted
Cover Journal of Infrastructure & Facility Asset Management
No full textPrediction of Rust Thickness in Reinforced Concrete Structures to Enhance the Asset Management for Coastal Infrastructures Wahyuniarsih Sutrisno, I Ketut Hartana & Priyo SuproboSimulation of Concerete Slab Bevahior to Explosion M. Shabib Al Bari, Januarti Jaya Ekaputri, Faimun, Julendra Bambang Ariatedja, Buntara S. GanLearning IFAM by using ITS Medical Centre as a Case: #1 - Identifying the Function, Medical Service, Infrastructure & Facility Vita Ratnasari & Hitapriya SuprayitnoPotential Number of Passenger and Performance Evaluation of Surabaya School Bus Adhi Muhtadi, Sapto Budi Wasono, Hitapriya Suprayitno & Ervina AhyudanariAssessment of Infrastructures Assets Induced by Water Level Fluctuation along the Bengawan Solo River T. R. Satrya, R. A.A Soemitro, M. A Maulana, D.D. Wamana & R. SoetantoRoad Network Connectivity Quality Assesment for Timor Leste National Road Network Frans de Jesus Babo & Hitapriya Suprayitn
Integrating Disaster Management Planning into Road Infrastructure Asset Management
No full textClimate change presents challenges for road infrastructure asset managers, with uncertainty about the impacts of increasingly frequent and intense disasters on asset functionality and life span. Budgeting for disaster response and recovery are improving, however there are calls for more evidence to support budget allocations. This exploratory study aimed to create a systematic approach for integrating climate-related disaster risks within road asset evaluation, towards improving the evidence-base for capital works and maintenance budgets. It involved a systematic literature review of 63 research papers about resilient road infrastructure, followed by sense-checking key findings through eight semi-structured interviews with road asset management experts from Australian government and industry. We present a set of 15 parameters for evaluating road infrastructure resilience, within four commonly used asset management categories: robustness; redundancy; resourcefulness; and rapidity. We place these within a Disaster Management Planning Framework for resilient road infrastructure outcomes, with the key parameters matched to the commonly used disaster management phases of ‘Prevent, Prepare, Respond, Recover’ (PPRR). The parameters and the framework have immediate use for road infrastructure asset managers, providing clear decision-support regarding what data is important to collect and analyse and at what time, to inform capital works and maintenance budgets.Full Tex
Sustainable project management through project control in infrastructure projects
No full text<p>Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in the delivery of projects as stakeholders require ethicality, eco-friendliness, and economic efficiency during a project's life cycle. Previous studies focused on the environmental aspects of sustainability in project deliverables, whereas less attention has been directed at sustainable project management during project delivery. The goal of this study is to identify the control practices that a project organization uses for sustainable project management. A qualitative single-case study was conducted on a large infrastructure project in which a road tunnel was constructed in a highly demanding environment, involving multiple stakeholders in an alliance contract. The results reveal that sustainable project management is implemented using not only indicators but a holistic control package in which control mechanisms are used differently for different sustainability dimensions. Internal project control is complemented with sustainable project governance, linking the project to its external stakeholders and regulations. The alliance contract activates the partners to exploit innovation opportunities and, thus, promotes economic, environmental, and social sustainability.</p>Peer reviewe
Value-oriented stakeholder influence on infrastructure projects
No full textProject stakeholder management deals with managing and fulfilling stakeholder expectations and has tended to focus on the viewpoint of the focal firm or the project rather than that of the project stakeholders. The stakeholders' perspective is important because they can significantly influence projects, particularly infrastructure delivery involving both public and private actors. This study focuses on the ways that stakeholders pursue influence on projects through their expectation of project value. The goal is to identify the value-oriented reasons for stakeholders to utilize specific influence strategies. A multiple case study was implemented in three transport infrastructure projects. The study argues that stakeholders' expectations of project value creation explain the stakeholder influence strategies utilized. The findings link project value with stakeholder influence strategies and reveal four influence strategies in transport infrastructure projects, differentiated according to their different value priorities. The unique value-influence combinations of public infrastructure projects are revealed and discussed.Peer reviewe
Infrastructure finance : issues, institutions, and policies
Full text linkThe author analyzes the distinctive features of formal and informal financing of infrastructure and the principal issues policymakers must address in dealing with infrastructure finance: its adequacy in competitive financial systems, its budgetary vulnerability, the rationale for foreign finance, the role of user charges and taxes, the pros and cons of earmarking taxes, the institutional framework for infrastructure finance, the role of municipal finance, different approaches to the private financing of infrastructure (such as franchises, leases, management contracts, and consumer cooperatives), the critical role of contractor finance, and informal financing of infrastructure.The author concludes the following points. Not only the amount of funds but the regularity of their flow is central to maintaining infrastructure. But infrastructure must compete on a level playing field with other sectors. Any essential (but not open-ended) subsidies for maintaining universal minimum standards of service are best carried on the government budget, subject to periodic review. Institutional reform is needed to rationalize the division of resources and responsibilities among all layers of government and to provide mechanisms for insulating infrastructure finance from budgetary and other pressures. Such mechanisms include earmarking, privatization, and objective criteria for sharing value-added tax and other national tax revenue. Most developing countries do not have a national infrastructure agency to fund and coordinate technical assistance for infrastructure projects. The author makes a case for an apex financial entity in charge of municipal financial intermediaries for infrastructure, pointing to the instructive experience of intermediaries in Colombia and Jordan. One responsibility of such an agency would be to determine the necessary import content (for equipment, technical, and managerial expertise) of infrastructure finance, to prevent overborrowing. Privatization of infrastructure should be viewed as implicit earmarking, but official regulation of public utility prices should allow private utilities to generate retained earnings (to encourage self-financing) and should allow adjustments for inflation and exchange rate fluctuations. Infrastructure policy should allow for cost recovery through user charges as well as for tax revenues, especially through municipal taxes, since even the viability of loan finance depends on an efficient tax effort. While infrastructure finance is important, it is not always the decisive constraint, judging from the operating losses of even adequately funded infrastructure projects.Banks&Banking Reform,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Housing Finance,Urban Economics,Public&Municipal Finance
Organizational culture and knowledge management as strategies to improve the efficiency in the public organizations sector of emerging countries
No full textThe purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence about the relationship between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management in public sector organizations in Colombia. This research is based on information obtained from a survey applied to workers in different positions and areas of four organizations in the Colombian government at the departmental level. A survey of 22 items measured Organizational Culture, and 19 items measured Knowledge Management. The results show that the strongest correlation is between a flexible organizational structure and leadership that foments the development of worker capabilities to register and use knowledge. Furthermore, to achieve efficiency the public organizations should foster adaptability to environment, a well-defined management and value-oriented human behavior and overcome barriers such as bureaucracy, inefficient administration, and make adequate knowledge management. © 2024 by author(s)
Journal of Management & Engineering Integration, v.16, no.2 (Winter)
No full textPublished in SOAR: Shocker Open Access Repository by Wichita State University Libraries Technical Services, December 2023.A Framework to Define and Quantify Leadership Styles within Navy Engineering Units / Megan Praschak -- Evaluation of a Hybrid Cold Spray and Machining Method for Fabrication of Parts with High Surface Integrity / Xuan Yi Lee and Wilfredo Moscoso-Kingsley -- Implementation and Evaluation of Curved Layer Fused Deposition Modeling / Matthew T. Guile and Gamal S. Weheba -- Infrastructure and Internet Inclusiveness as Determinants of e-commerce Expansion / Frederick K. Augustine, Jr. and John Rasp -- How to Conduct a Case Study: A Guide for Novice Researchers / Abdelnasser Hussein -- A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Dashboard for Covid-19: The Case of Kansas / Sue Abdinnou
Overview of Infrastructure Charging, part 4, IMPROVERAIL Project Deliverable 9, “Improved Data Background to Support Current and Future Infrastructure Charging Systems”
Full text linkImproverail aims are to further support the establishment of railway infrastructure management in accordance with Directive 91/440, as well as the new railway infrastructure directives, by developing the necessary tools for modelling the management of railway infrastructure; by evaluating improved methods for capacity and resources management, which allow the improvement of the Life Cycle Costs (LCC) calculating methods, including elements related to vehicle - infrastructure interaction and external costs; and by improving data background in support of charging for use of railway infrastructure. To achieve these objectives, Improverail is organised along 8 workpackages, with specific objectives, responding to the requirements of the task 2.2.1/10 of the 2nd call made in the 5th RTD Framework Programme in December 1999.This part is the task 7.1 (Review of infrastructure charging systems) to the workpackage 7 (Analysis of the relation between infrastructure cost variation and diversity of infrastructure charging systems).Before explaining the economic characteristics of railway and his basic pricing principles, authors must specify the objectives of railways infrastructure charging.principle of pricing ; rail infrastructure charging ; public service obligation ; rail charging practice ; Europe ; Improverail
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