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Industrial project management : international standards and best practices for engineering and construction contracting
This rigorously academic book describes - in a precise but practical way - the most recent principles and techniques of project management, at the highest international standards, with a fully company-wide, process-based, multi-project approach.
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The Effectiveness of Collaborative Centralized Information Systems in Project Management: A Pilot Demonstration of a Multifunctional Building in Africa
In the current context of transformation within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector, and the growing adoption of interdisciplinary collaboration processes such as Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM), information management systems are crucial to ensure both the security and reliability of data, and its effective distribution among project stakeholders. Collaborative centralized information systems have emerged as powerful tools for communication and data exchange. However, establishing efficient and flexible methodologies for managing this information remains a significant challenge. This study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of collaborative centralized information systems in project information management through a real-world example. The research focuses on analyzing a pilot project developed by our organization using the Bimcollab digital collaborative platform. The methodology adopted includes the following: (i) descriptive characterization of the project; (ii) selection of a defined timeframe; (iii) description and characterization of the information management systems; and (iv) comparative analysis between non-centralized and centralized information management systems. The case study examines the Detail Design phase of a project for a pharmaceutical industry complex comprising six buildings, with a total area of approximately 18,000 m2. From October to December 2022, a non-centralized information system was used, followed by the implementation of a centralized information system from January to March 2023. Key indicators, such as the number of occurrences, average number of recipients involved, response times, and resolution rates, were analyzed. The results showed that the complete resolution rate improved from 51% under the non-centralized system to 85% with the centralized system, representing a 34% increase. The pilot project underscores the benefits of centralized collaborative information systems, particularly in reducing response times and increasing resolution rates among stakeholders. These benefits are expected to apply across various functional programs, including residential construction, contributing to optimizing both project design and construction practices. While derived from a single case study, the findings highlight the need for further research involving multiple cases and phases of the project lifecycle to validate the generalizability of these outcomes.
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The MID Instrument of European XFEL: Upgrades and Experimental Setups
This article provides examples of setups and upgrades currently under development at the Materials Imaging and Dynamics (MID) instrument of the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (EuXFEL): the first installations of the Multi-environmental multi-Detector Setup (MDS_2), its next design scenarios in the MID Instrument and the Multi-Purpose Chamber 2 project design status, with the first successful commissioning of its Breadboard Assembly.
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Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges
Design thinking has become a central issue in contemporary design discourse and rhetoric, and for good reason. With the design thinking practice of world leading design and innovation firm IDEO, and with the application of these principles to successful design education at prestigious d. school, the Institute of Design at Stanford University, and not least with the publication of Change by Design, in which IDEO chief executive Tim Brown elaborates on the firm's ideas about design thinking, ...
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Design Criteria for Process-Based Restoration of Fluvial Systems
Process-based restoration of fluvial systems removes human constraints on nature to promote ecological recovery. By freeing natural processes, a resilient ecosystem may be restored with minimal corrective intervention. However, there is a lack of meaningful design criteria to allow designers to evaluate whether a project is likely to achieve process-based restoration objectives. We describe four design criteria to evaluate a project’s potential: the expansion of fluvial process space and connectivity lost because of human alterations, the use of intrinsic natural energy to do the work of restoration, the use of native materials that do not overstabilize project elements, and the explicit incorporation of time and adaptive management into project design to place sites on recovery trajectories as opposed to attempts to “restore” sites via a single intervention. Applications include stream and infrastructure design and low-carbon construction. An example is presented in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills.
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Powering places, Santa Monica : Land Art Generator Initiative
\"The Land Art Generator Initiative implements the design and construction of new landmarks of civic art for the twenty-first century that give back to communities by providing clean and renewable infrastructure solutions, while educating and inspiring people about the beauty of our postcarbon future. LAGI Santa Monica invited creatives around the world to imagine regenerative artworks that harvest millions of liters of drinking water and enough electricity to power thousands of homes in Southern California.\"--Back cover.
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Action Design Research
Design research (DR) positions information technology artifacts at the core of the Information Systems discipline. However, dominant DR thinking takes a technological view of the IT artifact, paying scant attention to its shaping by the organizational context. Consequently, existing DR methods focus on building the artifact and relegate evaluation to a subsequent and separate phase. They value technological rigor at the cost of organizational relevance, and fail to recognize that the artifact emerges from interaction with the organizational context even when its initial design is guided by the researchers' intent. We propose action design research (ADR) as a new DR method to address this problem. ADR reflects the premise that IT artifacts are ensembles shaped by the organizational context during development and use. The method conceptualizes the research process as containing the inseparable and inherently interwoven activities of building the IT artifact, intervening in the organization, and evaluating it concurrently. The essay describes the stages of ADR and associated principles that encapsulate its underlying beliefs and values. We illustrate ADR through a case of competence management at Volvo IT.
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