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The nuclear industry is a unique sector that is especially vulnerable to delays. A multitude of impactful factors such as the complexity of design, tight on-site schedules, and a logistically sophisticated end-to-end su...

ABSTRACT Typical resultative constructions in English are unavailable in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and in Romance. This fact has been attributed by previous studies to different event-framings, following the Talmian view...

The construction is important in a market economy. From the development of the construction industry depends on large extent how the economy will function. In Poland the share of construction in GDP is about 8 percent. ...

Construction generates substantial material waste with environmental and economic impacts, yet current methods rarely integrate waste estimation with project schedules. This study develops and validates semi-automated 4D...

Construction sites routinely face multi-trade concurrency, spatiotemporal coupling, and high safety risk; relying solely on manual inspection and heuristic scheduling often leads to lagging detection and inconsistent exe...

The settling column tests and the vacuum preloading model tests are performed on the waste slurry of a construction site in Shanghai and the additive agent slurry. The sediment and turbidity characteristics of slurries w...

This paper examines the determinants of profitability for construction companies in Croatia. Sample includes more than 8678 construction companies covering the period from 2003 to 2014 what present 11 years of observat...

The “Findings in…” section in this issue of VLC arquitectura is devoted to Architectural Construction, a field whose recent evolution highlights its capacity to open up new lines of reflection and research on the b...

L’exposition professionnelle aux rayonnements ultraviolets (UV) constitue un facteur de risque bien établi pour les cancers cutanés, en particulier chez les travailleurs de la construction. Malgré une exposition cum...

Introduction: The increase in the number of MSD cases in the construction industry is due to repetitive bending of the back, lifting and pushing/pulling with the arms, with lifting often being from a height lower than th...

Background: Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the public sector construction are constrained by limited access to large-scale contracts, insufficient capital, and skills development barriers, this mostly be...

The 2018 Lombok earthquake caused extensive housing and infrastructure damage in North Lombok Regency, triggering large-scale reconstruction efforts. Post-disaster housing reconstruction (PDHR) is crucial not only for re...

One of the greatest developments that human civilizations have seen throughout the ages is urbanisation, that’s why man has created legal rules organizing it, and laws to regulate urban activity and guarantee individua...

This study aims to identify risks arising in housing construction projects, particularly those related to budget overruns, and to develop mitigation strategies to ensure that projects run according to plan in terms of co...

The application of prefabrication and modularization in the construction industry has grown significantly recently. The efficiency of prefabrication supply chains yields substantial advantages for construction projects. ...

The level and types of sexual violence crimes in Indonesia are increasing and worrying the public. Law enforcement efforts to overcome criminal acts of sexual violence are increasingly being implemented. This study aims ...

The construction industry holds a pivotal role in the economic and social framework of the Russian Federation, functioning not merely as a production sector but as a system-forming component essential for achieving prior...

Local communities worldwide rely on cultural values, and Indigenous institutions to recover from social conflict; however, the process by which social awareness is constructed as a peacebuilding mechanism remains insuffi...

Background: The Zondo Commission exposed how corruption and collusion undermined South Africa’s state and business relations. However, little is known about its impact on small businesses and local economic developmen...

Abstract Verbs can be divided in three major groups when it comes to the passive construction in Brazilian Portuguese: while verbs such as ‘escrever’ (to write) are fully compatible with the construction; verbs like ...

ABSTRACT This article presents a qualitative study which aimed at investigating the process of identity construction of Silvana, an English language teacher from the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC). In order t...

Starting from the actions implemented by the majority of African States in favor of the promotion and popularization of mother tongues, this work, in the extension of this happy initiative, sets itself the objective of h...

In recent years, China's port construction exhibits the development trend of large scale and deep water, and many ports are not the same type of seawall construction. Riprap construction of sloping breakwaters in open wa...

Kihehe (G62) has a rich inventory of auxiliary constructions (> 120) grounded in different forms of be: copula -li and -ʋa ‘be’. This paper addresses those constructions in which the auxiliary is marked for one of t...