Vietnam economy gains strength everyday. In Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, many infrastructures have been built since the country entered WTO. Dongnai Province is also aiming to be economically and socially developed in 2010. Thus this province focuses on the maintenance and development of the infrastructure sector in order to attract foreign investments. As a result, there have been many construction projects for building from 2000 up to this date. However, Dongnai province is now facing problem regarding slow progress and poor quality infrastructures. Therefore, the development of human resources to meet the above target is needed for consideration.
Mr. Truong Vinh Hiep made a case study which primary objective is to survey and to assess adequacy human resources in public infrastructure projects. His two minor objectives are (1) to estimate adequacy project management personnel; and (2) to assess the current competency of the project management individuals, teams, and organizational.
He found out that the project management personnel need one million dollar in order to forecast the number of total construction personnel at three organizations: owner, designer, and contractor in Dongnai province in 2007. In terms of the project management competency level, the individual contractor needs to be a good example, to get the support staff, project sponsor, technical personnel, functional manager, and project manager to manage the scope, time, quality, communication, and human resource. However, the capacity of the project manager is only fair within some areas for instance the cost, risk management, and motivation their staff. Hence, these fields they need improvement in order to meet the high requirement for the projects in the future.
Another conclusion regarding the project management competency is that the individual, team, and organization in the owners and contractors of the large-scale projects are higher than small-scale projects. However there is no significant difference in the individuals, teams, and organizations in the designers between large-scale projects and small-scale projects.
In assessing the project management competence among different projects such as building, road, and water supply system projects using the Kruskal-Wallis test, Mr. Hiep found out that there is a significant difference in project management competence among these projects. This means the capacity of the individual to do their jobs on the projects; cooperation of team members or commitment to complete the project requirement in the team as well as the organization’s support for their workers to execute jobs effectively among buildings, roads, and water supply system projects have seemed difference. While the capacity and ability of the individual to do their works or the cooperation of the team members as well as the organization’s support for their workers to execute jobs effectively between the designer and contractor does seem the same.
His abstract thesis is copied and posted
Abstract
The current competence assessment of the project management personnel in the construction field is necessary for Dongnai province to meet the demand of economy and sociality development to 2010 and 2015. Therefore, this study will provide the information regarding the project management personnel for infrastructure development in Dongnai province. The author observed and interviewed the project managers in the twenty construction projects within three organizations: the owner, designer, and contractor and get the following results:
In term of the project management competency between large-scale projects and small-scale projects, the Mann-Whitney test found that the individual work on the projects, the cooperation of these group members as well as the organization’s support for their worker in the large-scale projects seems to be higher than that of the small-scale projects. When we compare the project management competence among three project types: water supply system, road, and building projects from the Kruskal-Wallis test, there is a significant difference among these project types. But the post-hoc test doesn’t find significant difference in project management competence among these projects. However, when we compare the project management competency among different organizations: the owner, the designer, and the contractor from the Kruskal-Wallis test, there is a significant difference among these organizations and the post-hoc test also finds that the project management competence of the owner is higher than designer. But there isn’t any significant difference in the project management competence between the designer and the contractor.
For this study, the author assessed the current competence of the human resources in the construction field in Dongnai province. And it also provides the data for further research in the future to find the negative cause to affect the project management competence and to setting up the plans to improve these areas which the project management competence level is low as well as find the processes to manage the projects more effective.
Keywords: project management, competence, infrastructure, assessment, organization, personnel.
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Management (AIT Thailand) August 2009 Intake
The Construction, Engineering and Infrastructure Management field of study accepted 16 applicants for Masters Program and 1 applicant for Ph. D. for August 2009 semester.
No - Name - Degree - Country
1. Mr.Asmat Nabi Hotaki - Master - Afghanistan
2. Mr. Hout Venghong - Master - Cambodia
3. Mr. Puoy Puthitha - Master - Cambodia
4 . Mr.Timo Juhappeka Myllynen - Special - Finland
5. Ms. Kyawt Phyu Phyu - Master - Myanmar
6. Mr. Kyaw Min Thu - Master - Myanmar
7. Mr. Pye Phyo Moung - Master - Myanmar
8. Mr. Mukesh Khadka - Master - Nepal
9. Mr.Hassan Ashraf - Master - Pakistan
10. Ms. Supatchana Pumpipat - Master - Thailand
11. Mr.Janeyut Naiyarat - Master - Thailand
12. Mr.Wattanachai Tanjedreu - Master - Thailand
13. MissPorntanat Kongsrisawat - Master - Thailand
14. Mr.Thanapon Buaklom - Master - Thailand
15. Mr.Kittawat Sukosi - Certificate to Master - Thailand
16. Ms. Mai Tuyet Vu - Master - Vietnam
17. Mr. Somjiat Sudprasert - Doctor - Thailand
No - Name - Degree - Country
1. Mr.Asmat Nabi Hotaki - Master - Afghanistan
2. Mr. Hout Venghong - Master - Cambodia
3. Mr. Puoy Puthitha - Master - Cambodia
4 . Mr.Timo Juhappeka Myllynen - Special - Finland
5. Ms. Kyawt Phyu Phyu - Master - Myanmar
6. Mr. Kyaw Min Thu - Master - Myanmar
7. Mr. Pye Phyo Moung - Master - Myanmar
8. Mr. Mukesh Khadka - Master - Nepal
9. Mr.Hassan Ashraf - Master - Pakistan
10. Ms. Supatchana Pumpipat - Master - Thailand
11. Mr.Janeyut Naiyarat - Master - Thailand
12. Mr.Wattanachai Tanjedreu - Master - Thailand
13. MissPorntanat Kongsrisawat - Master - Thailand
14. Mr.Thanapon Buaklom - Master - Thailand
15. Mr.Kittawat Sukosi - Certificate to Master - Thailand
16. Ms. Mai Tuyet Vu - Master - Vietnam
17. Mr. Somjiat Sudprasert - Doctor - Thailand
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Private Participation In Developing Transportation Infrastructure: Case Study In Ben Tre Province
Vietnam’s economy is growing fast and the transport sector must meet the need of the national economy. Improving efficiency in the transport sector investment will be essential for regional access, integrated economy and efficient freight movement to and from terminals, ports, industrial zones, and for public services. Due to financial incapability for transport infrastructure, Vietnam has had to invite overseas and domestic private sector for improving financing sources. Most transport projects have been invested by the government budget and ODA funds. These sources cannot meet the demand.
Vietnam is facing an urgent need to find new means to finance transport capital investment. Therefore, encouraging private sector participation in the transport sector is critical issues for the government. To execute these issues the government needs to learn experiences in mobilizing private sector from other countries to apply for Vietnam. Vietnam should give up monopoly in some fields and give clearer policies for private sector.
Mr. Pham Hoang Anh made a research study to find the suitable ways to increase the fund supply for development of transportation infrastructure in Vietnam. His 4 objectives are to:
1. Investigate legal environment for PPP transportation infrastructure projects;
2. Investigate the current and future gaps of funding sources in developing transportation infrastructure.
3. Propose PPP models and test the applicability of these proposed PPP models for each kind of transport infrastructure projects.
4. Propose the recommendations for the local government in applying PPP models to fill the future funding gaps for the transportation projects.
He found out that there are 8 laws and legal regulations governed for PPP transportation projects. These complexities discouraged the investors especially foreign to invest. On PPP transportation projects at provincial level, there are 7 government parties participating in the project from the primary ideas to complete project. This process runs slowly and its complexity, these make the process of implementation of PPP transportation projects spend much time.
Based on his survey, he found out that most of developers in transportation projects are state-owned enterprise construction contractors so there is deformation about kind of capital in PPP transportation projects. In the case of Ben Tre province, the capital for transportation development is mainly dependent on allocation of budget (central, provincial and district budget), in which provincial budget contributes 50% in total.
Government budget supply will meet around 37% of total financial demand for transportation development. Between public supply and real demand is a huge financial gap. The role of private sector is very necessary in this situation to fill such the financial gaps. The partnership between public and private sector, private participation will possibly contribute 16% of total necessity investment capital in case of minimum contribution of private sector, around 41% at maximum contribution and 28.5% at average value of contribution.
With minimum private participation, the total obtainment capital is around 53%, and 65.5% for the average value. It reaches 78% of total financial requirement. It means that the Transport Master Plan of Ben Tre province up to 2020 will not be able to fulfill by 2020. The utmost, only 78% of the plan will be accomplished. Therefore, the Transport Master Pan is not feasible.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
The wave of transportation infrastructure investment has been booming in Vietnam recent years. Meanwhile the government budget is inadequate to meet huge demand for transportation improvement. Private participation is considered as a critical solution to solve this problem, their contribution is going to be expected to share financial burden with government budget in future. Therefore, the study concentrates on main issues of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models in order to apply for transportation infrastructure projects and current legal system related to PPP transportation projects. Thirteen PPP transportation projects were analyzed in light of financial and legal issues. An investigation was conducted among transportation sector’s participants including officers, investors, developers, expert and bank’s staff. The case study was conducted in Ben Tre province. The future financial requirement for constructing all future transportation projects in the Transport Master Plan was determined. The PPP models for each kind of transportation projects were proposed to identify private financial contribution to fill a part of financial gap. The study suggests possible solutions to solve difficulties of the government in applying PPPs for transportation development, such as diversification of financial sources, administrative reform, and more.
Vietnam is facing an urgent need to find new means to finance transport capital investment. Therefore, encouraging private sector participation in the transport sector is critical issues for the government. To execute these issues the government needs to learn experiences in mobilizing private sector from other countries to apply for Vietnam. Vietnam should give up monopoly in some fields and give clearer policies for private sector.
Mr. Pham Hoang Anh made a research study to find the suitable ways to increase the fund supply for development of transportation infrastructure in Vietnam. His 4 objectives are to:
1. Investigate legal environment for PPP transportation infrastructure projects;
2. Investigate the current and future gaps of funding sources in developing transportation infrastructure.
3. Propose PPP models and test the applicability of these proposed PPP models for each kind of transport infrastructure projects.
4. Propose the recommendations for the local government in applying PPP models to fill the future funding gaps for the transportation projects.
He found out that there are 8 laws and legal regulations governed for PPP transportation projects. These complexities discouraged the investors especially foreign to invest. On PPP transportation projects at provincial level, there are 7 government parties participating in the project from the primary ideas to complete project. This process runs slowly and its complexity, these make the process of implementation of PPP transportation projects spend much time.
Based on his survey, he found out that most of developers in transportation projects are state-owned enterprise construction contractors so there is deformation about kind of capital in PPP transportation projects. In the case of Ben Tre province, the capital for transportation development is mainly dependent on allocation of budget (central, provincial and district budget), in which provincial budget contributes 50% in total.
Government budget supply will meet around 37% of total financial demand for transportation development. Between public supply and real demand is a huge financial gap. The role of private sector is very necessary in this situation to fill such the financial gaps. The partnership between public and private sector, private participation will possibly contribute 16% of total necessity investment capital in case of minimum contribution of private sector, around 41% at maximum contribution and 28.5% at average value of contribution.
With minimum private participation, the total obtainment capital is around 53%, and 65.5% for the average value. It reaches 78% of total financial requirement. It means that the Transport Master Plan of Ben Tre province up to 2020 will not be able to fulfill by 2020. The utmost, only 78% of the plan will be accomplished. Therefore, the Transport Master Pan is not feasible.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
The wave of transportation infrastructure investment has been booming in Vietnam recent years. Meanwhile the government budget is inadequate to meet huge demand for transportation improvement. Private participation is considered as a critical solution to solve this problem, their contribution is going to be expected to share financial burden with government budget in future. Therefore, the study concentrates on main issues of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models in order to apply for transportation infrastructure projects and current legal system related to PPP transportation projects. Thirteen PPP transportation projects were analyzed in light of financial and legal issues. An investigation was conducted among transportation sector’s participants including officers, investors, developers, expert and bank’s staff. The case study was conducted in Ben Tre province. The future financial requirement for constructing all future transportation projects in the Transport Master Plan was determined. The PPP models for each kind of transportation projects were proposed to identify private financial contribution to fill a part of financial gap. The study suggests possible solutions to solve difficulties of the government in applying PPPs for transportation development, such as diversification of financial sources, administrative reform, and more.
Monday, 31 August 2009
Strategic Planning For Multimodal Transportation Hub: A Case Study Of Chiang Sean Port 2 And Pakbara Deep Seaport Project
Nowadays, Thailand logistics development is in the level of Physical Distribution which supports only delivery of the goods to the consumers. This level also covers the activities of the transportation, the stock of goods, material management, and packaging of the products. Thailand logistics transport modes, however, are not integrated. The lack of efficient logistics in multimodal transportation logistics obstructs Thailand to be the good logistic hub. So the Government of Thailand needs to focus in transport infrastructure to link all modes to be multimodal transportation.
Since Thailand developed the strategic planning, the success appropriate level has not reached. One of main reasons is lack of continuity in implementation of plans, each implementation of plan is not developed in the same direction and all plans are not integrated together. In addition, due to limitated budget and resources. In order to optimize resources in the right direction and achieve highest efficiency, Thailand needs the strategic planning which be created by basing on the multimodal transportation to be the guideline and to be indicator to meet the goal. It is obvious that GOT needs to improve implementation plan of strategic planning because of the strategic planning is a vital part in budget allocation process.
Ms. Suphitcha Phoemphoonthanyakit made a research which aimed to improve the strategic planning for multimodal transportation hub development in Thailand. Her 3 specific objectives are to (1) investigate the existing strategic planning of multimodal transport logistics and to get the key multimodal transportation parameters so that the strengths and weaknesses can be identified, (2) find out the appropriate strategic planning for multimodal transportation hub development project; and (3) propose the recommendations for improving strategic planning which appropriates for multimodal transportation hub development project.
Her result showed that in order to develop multimodal transport projects, the key parameters which should be considered are technical development, project demand, project return, laws and regulations, environmental concern, resources availability, and political concern.
From the expert interview, the researcher found out that the root causes of problem come from:
a. The department does not have the same direction to develop their projects.
b. The department proposes the projects by lacking of consider the strategic plan under the ministry.
c. The department proposes the projects by aiming target that they have to get the budget of their project at least same amount of previous year or otherwise more then previous year.
d. The department proposes the projects by sticking on their function of work.
e. The department proposes the projects and conducts the feasibility study by themselves so the bias may occur in order to make the project feasible.
She also found out that the projects which each department propose could not meet the key parameters of multimodal transportation hub. The main factors that causes the case studies could not be the multimodal transportation hub are:
a. The case studies lack of railroad transportation infrastructure development project and have low the opportunities to be the hub due to the demand are not high.
b. The demand forecast of case studies are significant different from the actual demand from interview and site observation.
For budget allocation for multimodal transportation, researcher uses budget allocation process toward the case studies in order to find out the characteristic of budget allocation of case studies. After researcher towards the budget allocation process to the case studies completely, the researcher found that three main problems occurred.
The first problem is the budget allocation for four year implementation plan is not optimization. On the right way, the budget should be allocated to projects that are multimodal transportation instead because they can give more advantages to logistics transportation system. The root cause of this problem comes from, OTP could not develop the case studies by integrating with other projects in order to be multimodal transportation.
The second problem is the budget allocation for yearly implementation plan is not optimization. This problem is similar with the first problem. The difference is the excursion area, the first problem occurred at four year implementation plan but the second problem occurred at yearly implementation plan. The OTP could not develop the case studies by integrating with other projects in order to be multimodal transportation.
The third problem is no budget allocation to case studies. The root cause of this problem comes from:
a. Lack of continuousness in project development due to the political problem.
b. Lack of budget expenditure data of previous yearly during budget requisition forming.
Her thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
Due to the main national policy of the government to strengthen the position of Thailand as the economic and transport hub of the region, it is necessary to develop the multimodal transportation which can efficiently link all modes of transport, i.e., land transport (highway and railway), waterway transport, and air transport so that it can reduce the national logistics costs and lessen the energy consumption of transport sector. Although Thailand has developed the strategic planning but still it has not reached the success up to the appropriate level as targeted. Moreover, Thailand has limitations in budget and resources. In order to optimize resources in the right direction and achieve highest efficiency, Thailand needs the effective budget allocation system to comply with multimodal transportation logistics plan.
A research has been done based on the two case studies which were conducted on the river port in the north part and deep seaport in the south part of Thailand. A qualitative research technique has been used by taking into account expert’s interviews, site observation, and main data source.
The finding of this study has shown that the strategic multimodal transportation planning of Thailand has some deficiencies and obstacles in project integration. Therefore, the recommendation of strategic multimodal transportation planning which is developed in the study will help the Government of Thailand, the Bureau of the Budget, Ministry of Transportation, and The departments under the Ministry of transportation, and other participants in project integration to follow the same direction and properly allocate the budget for the projects to achieve the multimodal transportation goal.
Since Thailand developed the strategic planning, the success appropriate level has not reached. One of main reasons is lack of continuity in implementation of plans, each implementation of plan is not developed in the same direction and all plans are not integrated together. In addition, due to limitated budget and resources. In order to optimize resources in the right direction and achieve highest efficiency, Thailand needs the strategic planning which be created by basing on the multimodal transportation to be the guideline and to be indicator to meet the goal. It is obvious that GOT needs to improve implementation plan of strategic planning because of the strategic planning is a vital part in budget allocation process.
Ms. Suphitcha Phoemphoonthanyakit made a research which aimed to improve the strategic planning for multimodal transportation hub development in Thailand. Her 3 specific objectives are to (1) investigate the existing strategic planning of multimodal transport logistics and to get the key multimodal transportation parameters so that the strengths and weaknesses can be identified, (2) find out the appropriate strategic planning for multimodal transportation hub development project; and (3) propose the recommendations for improving strategic planning which appropriates for multimodal transportation hub development project.
Her result showed that in order to develop multimodal transport projects, the key parameters which should be considered are technical development, project demand, project return, laws and regulations, environmental concern, resources availability, and political concern.
From the expert interview, the researcher found out that the root causes of problem come from:
a. The department does not have the same direction to develop their projects.
b. The department proposes the projects by lacking of consider the strategic plan under the ministry.
c. The department proposes the projects by aiming target that they have to get the budget of their project at least same amount of previous year or otherwise more then previous year.
d. The department proposes the projects by sticking on their function of work.
e. The department proposes the projects and conducts the feasibility study by themselves so the bias may occur in order to make the project feasible.
She also found out that the projects which each department propose could not meet the key parameters of multimodal transportation hub. The main factors that causes the case studies could not be the multimodal transportation hub are:
a. The case studies lack of railroad transportation infrastructure development project and have low the opportunities to be the hub due to the demand are not high.
b. The demand forecast of case studies are significant different from the actual demand from interview and site observation.
For budget allocation for multimodal transportation, researcher uses budget allocation process toward the case studies in order to find out the characteristic of budget allocation of case studies. After researcher towards the budget allocation process to the case studies completely, the researcher found that three main problems occurred.
The first problem is the budget allocation for four year implementation plan is not optimization. On the right way, the budget should be allocated to projects that are multimodal transportation instead because they can give more advantages to logistics transportation system. The root cause of this problem comes from, OTP could not develop the case studies by integrating with other projects in order to be multimodal transportation.
The second problem is the budget allocation for yearly implementation plan is not optimization. This problem is similar with the first problem. The difference is the excursion area, the first problem occurred at four year implementation plan but the second problem occurred at yearly implementation plan. The OTP could not develop the case studies by integrating with other projects in order to be multimodal transportation.
The third problem is no budget allocation to case studies. The root cause of this problem comes from:
a. Lack of continuousness in project development due to the political problem.
b. Lack of budget expenditure data of previous yearly during budget requisition forming.
Her thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
Due to the main national policy of the government to strengthen the position of Thailand as the economic and transport hub of the region, it is necessary to develop the multimodal transportation which can efficiently link all modes of transport, i.e., land transport (highway and railway), waterway transport, and air transport so that it can reduce the national logistics costs and lessen the energy consumption of transport sector. Although Thailand has developed the strategic planning but still it has not reached the success up to the appropriate level as targeted. Moreover, Thailand has limitations in budget and resources. In order to optimize resources in the right direction and achieve highest efficiency, Thailand needs the effective budget allocation system to comply with multimodal transportation logistics plan.
A research has been done based on the two case studies which were conducted on the river port in the north part and deep seaport in the south part of Thailand. A qualitative research technique has been used by taking into account expert’s interviews, site observation, and main data source.
The finding of this study has shown that the strategic multimodal transportation planning of Thailand has some deficiencies and obstacles in project integration. Therefore, the recommendation of strategic multimodal transportation planning which is developed in the study will help the Government of Thailand, the Bureau of the Budget, Ministry of Transportation, and The departments under the Ministry of transportation, and other participants in project integration to follow the same direction and properly allocate the budget for the projects to achieve the multimodal transportation goal.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Workers Participation In Safety Management System In Construction Projects In Thailand
The construction project faces many problems like accident during construction. Many researchers mentioned that maybe because most of the workers were unskilled since they worked before in agriculture but due to seasonal works, they changed their jobs. Moreover, they had their own unsafe habits from previous works especially in agriculture carrier.
In developing country especially in Thailand, to manage the system to provide safety for the workers and others from risks arising out of work activities, it is necessary for every employer’s concerned with construction (client, professional adviser or contractor) to recognize the hazards and manage operations to eliminate them as far as is reasonably possible (Davies and Tomasin, 1996). Hence, the manager level has to provide Safety Management System for the workers. However, the workers especially in Thailand need workers participation to implement as business core function since the company cannot choose better the safety programs whether they fit in best or not for the company. Besides, the accident happening rate in the construction project still remains at improper levels. Furthermore, by having an affective safety programs and the way workers participation can be embedded in organization because it can encourage mutual cooperation between management and workers in the operations of the programs and decisions that effect their safety and health (Aksorn and Hadikusumo, 2007, p.2).
Mr. Alvin Agustinus Gahari made a case study on “Workers Participation in Safety Management System in Construction Projects in Thailand” which primary objectives are to (1) investigate the workers participation in safety programs and (2) investigate methods to encourage the workers participation
Based on his research, below are the conclusions drawn:
1) Skill and knowledge, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety organization.
2) Leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive and clear safety program can encourage workers participation in risk analysis and method statement.
3) Open communication, incentive and clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety inspection.
4)Clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety training.
5) Trust and incentive can encourage workers participation in safety committees.
6) Leadership, trust, open communication and incentive can encourage workers participation in accident investigation and analysis.
7) Leadership, trust, open communication, with skill and knowledge can encourage workers participation in personal protection programme.
8) Leadership, skill and knowledge, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation in in-house safety rules and regulations.
9) Leadership and clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety orientation.
10) Leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation in Job Hazard Analysis.
11) Leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation (overall).
His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
Safety in construction projects has greatly risen in current years particularly in Thailand. The relationship between workers participation in safety program and workers participation encouragement was very important in this study. It caused that different construction projects have generated some troubles, one of which is accident during construction. Accidents do not happen naturally but are caused by certain reasons, most of which can be predicted, controlled or avoided.
Prior to works begin can be happened by accidents, and also subsequent to the works have been completed can be happened by them, because of lacking design or construction, causing fatality or wound to those engaged on maintenance work and to members of the public. The success of any business counts on the workers and they are the bottom line as well. Protecting workers from hazards not only constructs good business sense, but also the right thing to do. In addition, manager level was able to erect Safety Management System with workers participation. Thus, it is proposed that this research was able to focus on safety responsibility in safety program, leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive and clear safety program.
The required data was collected by using questionnaire survey. The objectives were to investigate the workers participation in safety programs and investigate methods to encourage the workers participation in Thailand construction project. The statistical methodology that used for examine the hypotheses was the Pearson’s correlation method. The result indicated that workers participation affects safety program. Some methods to encourage workers participation tended to follow safety programs.
There were 54 respondents returned questionnaires from their projects. All of questionnaires were visited personally and tracked through phone call and more visits were also conducted.
The construction projects that have in-house safety rules and regulations in their construction projects have a tendency to improve safety performance instead of without in-house safety rules and regulations. This safety program was the first rank or else the most important in this study. Furthermore, some methods can encourage workers participation in safety programs.
Further study is supposed to include not only less experience but also more experience especially for the person who has responsibility in safety. Moreover, this study would be better if it includes the estimation value of the construction project so it can be known the construction projects which have a good or bad safety program.
In developing country especially in Thailand, to manage the system to provide safety for the workers and others from risks arising out of work activities, it is necessary for every employer’s concerned with construction (client, professional adviser or contractor) to recognize the hazards and manage operations to eliminate them as far as is reasonably possible (Davies and Tomasin, 1996). Hence, the manager level has to provide Safety Management System for the workers. However, the workers especially in Thailand need workers participation to implement as business core function since the company cannot choose better the safety programs whether they fit in best or not for the company. Besides, the accident happening rate in the construction project still remains at improper levels. Furthermore, by having an affective safety programs and the way workers participation can be embedded in organization because it can encourage mutual cooperation between management and workers in the operations of the programs and decisions that effect their safety and health (Aksorn and Hadikusumo, 2007, p.2).
Mr. Alvin Agustinus Gahari made a case study on “Workers Participation in Safety Management System in Construction Projects in Thailand” which primary objectives are to (1) investigate the workers participation in safety programs and (2) investigate methods to encourage the workers participation
Based on his research, below are the conclusions drawn:
1) Skill and knowledge, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety organization.
2) Leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive and clear safety program can encourage workers participation in risk analysis and method statement.
3) Open communication, incentive and clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety inspection.
4)Clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety training.
5) Trust and incentive can encourage workers participation in safety committees.
6) Leadership, trust, open communication and incentive can encourage workers participation in accident investigation and analysis.
7) Leadership, trust, open communication, with skill and knowledge can encourage workers participation in personal protection programme.
8) Leadership, skill and knowledge, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation in in-house safety rules and regulations.
9) Leadership and clear safety program can encourage workers participation in safety orientation.
10) Leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation in Job Hazard Analysis.
11) Leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive, with clear safety program can encourage workers participation (overall).
His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
Safety in construction projects has greatly risen in current years particularly in Thailand. The relationship between workers participation in safety program and workers participation encouragement was very important in this study. It caused that different construction projects have generated some troubles, one of which is accident during construction. Accidents do not happen naturally but are caused by certain reasons, most of which can be predicted, controlled or avoided.
Prior to works begin can be happened by accidents, and also subsequent to the works have been completed can be happened by them, because of lacking design or construction, causing fatality or wound to those engaged on maintenance work and to members of the public. The success of any business counts on the workers and they are the bottom line as well. Protecting workers from hazards not only constructs good business sense, but also the right thing to do. In addition, manager level was able to erect Safety Management System with workers participation. Thus, it is proposed that this research was able to focus on safety responsibility in safety program, leadership, trust, open communication, skill and knowledge, incentive and clear safety program.
The required data was collected by using questionnaire survey. The objectives were to investigate the workers participation in safety programs and investigate methods to encourage the workers participation in Thailand construction project. The statistical methodology that used for examine the hypotheses was the Pearson’s correlation method. The result indicated that workers participation affects safety program. Some methods to encourage workers participation tended to follow safety programs.
There were 54 respondents returned questionnaires from their projects. All of questionnaires were visited personally and tracked through phone call and more visits were also conducted.
The construction projects that have in-house safety rules and regulations in their construction projects have a tendency to improve safety performance instead of without in-house safety rules and regulations. This safety program was the first rank or else the most important in this study. Furthermore, some methods can encourage workers participation in safety programs.
Further study is supposed to include not only less experience but also more experience especially for the person who has responsibility in safety. Moreover, this study would be better if it includes the estimation value of the construction project so it can be known the construction projects which have a good or bad safety program.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Criteria For Infrastructure Project Selection: A Case Study In Cantho City, Vietnam
Vietnam has been successful in expanding access to infrastructure services over the past twenty years. The investment in infrastructure spreads all over the country, supports to growing economy, and expands the basic services to poor rural areas. Entering WTO since October 2006 offers Vietnam, new chances in economic expanding and opens new challenges for infrastructure as well. Dealing with high demand in infrastructure services, the Vietnam’s authority tries to attract capital from many sources of funds in order to expand and invest more infrastructure projects in both central and local government. However, the investments are still spreaded, uncompleted and the maintenance works are also neglected. One of main reasons is weakness and shortcoming in planning, selecting and budget allocating process. Setting project selection between different projects commonly accord with the absence of economic criteria. It will be a wasting of resource to carry out the project that brings the lower socio-ecomomical benefit compared with others. The efficiency and effectiveness of selecting infrastructure projects are hence the main concern of local authority.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Dan made a study to develop infrastructure prioritization criteria for each kind of infrastructure project at local government in Vietnam. His study focused on (1) in-depth understand laws and regulations for transportation project investment then specify shortcoming of regulations existed, (2) investigate and evaluate the current project selection process in Vietnam in term of criteria as well as procedure of so that its strengths and weaknesses can be identified; and (3) develop and propose criteria for each step of infrastructure project selection process in Vietnam.
He found out that there are many laws and regulation related to the infrastructure project investment. It consists of four main laws that are Law on Organization of People’s Councils and People’s Committees, Law on Budget, Law on Construction and Law on Investment affect the making investment project. Relevant laws include Law on land, Environment law, Law of tendering and Technical standards and grad of the project in Vietnam. In addition, there are a large number of Decrees, Circulars, and Guidelines for investing infrastructure project in Vietnam. In the review of laws and regulations and interview information, the three short comings of current regulations were identified: (1) taking long time to recommend, adjust when getting problems in large mechanism of Vietnam government with vertical horizon administration, (2) limitation of updated regulation documents, and (3) and deficient in good coordination of circulars and guidelines.
His study also pointed out some weaknesses that still exist in the current selection process such as (1) there is no establishment of criteria, guidelines and regulations for prioritizing project. Without prioritization, the project selection passes the conceptual and investment elaboration stage difficultly and complicatedly, (2) the setting up of criteria for project selection process is also not paid attention. The selection of project is based on this importance factor and project policy compliance under budget availability.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted
ABSTRACT
In accordance with the fast growing of socio-economic development in Vietnam, the demand for enhancing and expanding the infrastructure structure is very high. However, under budget limitation of developing country, local government should have an adequate selection to possibly pick the most promising project for investment. The objective of this study is to propose the criteria for selection process of infrastructure project of local government. In order to achieve this target, the investigation of existing project selection process was carried out to identify strengths and weaknesses three stages conceptual, investment project elaboration and approval stage of this process. Data collection related to the investigation was collected from legal documents, working report and interview information from Cantho, Vietnam. Using secondary data analysis, the study specifies five factors influencing the project selection. Since, the identification of criteria from these factors for each stage of selection process was eight, eleven, and six criteria should carefully consider in conceptual stage, investment project elaboration stage, and approval stage. Finally, based on the evaluation of developed criteria, recommendations are conducted for improving the criteria of infrastructure project of local government in Vietnam.
Nguyen Thi Xuan Dan made a study to develop infrastructure prioritization criteria for each kind of infrastructure project at local government in Vietnam. His study focused on (1) in-depth understand laws and regulations for transportation project investment then specify shortcoming of regulations existed, (2) investigate and evaluate the current project selection process in Vietnam in term of criteria as well as procedure of so that its strengths and weaknesses can be identified; and (3) develop and propose criteria for each step of infrastructure project selection process in Vietnam.
He found out that there are many laws and regulation related to the infrastructure project investment. It consists of four main laws that are Law on Organization of People’s Councils and People’s Committees, Law on Budget, Law on Construction and Law on Investment affect the making investment project. Relevant laws include Law on land, Environment law, Law of tendering and Technical standards and grad of the project in Vietnam. In addition, there are a large number of Decrees, Circulars, and Guidelines for investing infrastructure project in Vietnam. In the review of laws and regulations and interview information, the three short comings of current regulations were identified: (1) taking long time to recommend, adjust when getting problems in large mechanism of Vietnam government with vertical horizon administration, (2) limitation of updated regulation documents, and (3) and deficient in good coordination of circulars and guidelines.
His study also pointed out some weaknesses that still exist in the current selection process such as (1) there is no establishment of criteria, guidelines and regulations for prioritizing project. Without prioritization, the project selection passes the conceptual and investment elaboration stage difficultly and complicatedly, (2) the setting up of criteria for project selection process is also not paid attention. The selection of project is based on this importance factor and project policy compliance under budget availability.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted
ABSTRACT
In accordance with the fast growing of socio-economic development in Vietnam, the demand for enhancing and expanding the infrastructure structure is very high. However, under budget limitation of developing country, local government should have an adequate selection to possibly pick the most promising project for investment. The objective of this study is to propose the criteria for selection process of infrastructure project of local government. In order to achieve this target, the investigation of existing project selection process was carried out to identify strengths and weaknesses three stages conceptual, investment project elaboration and approval stage of this process. Data collection related to the investigation was collected from legal documents, working report and interview information from Cantho, Vietnam. Using secondary data analysis, the study specifies five factors influencing the project selection. Since, the identification of criteria from these factors for each stage of selection process was eight, eleven, and six criteria should carefully consider in conceptual stage, investment project elaboration stage, and approval stage. Finally, based on the evaluation of developed criteria, recommendations are conducted for improving the criteria of infrastructure project of local government in Vietnam.
Monday, 24 August 2009
An Owner’s Project Planning Approach For High Rise Building In Design And Construction: A Case Study Of Petrovietnam Commercial And Financial Centre
In Vietnam, the concept and practice of Owner’s Project Planning (Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality) have been used in recent years. The purpose of Owner’s Project Planning is to: (a) describe briefly what project planning is and how it is carried out; (b) identify the major obstacles to effective planning and suggest ways of over-coming them (Laufer, 1989).
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Loc made a research to study the owner’s project planning approach for building project in design and construction and to develop a guideline for project owner to develop project plan to ensure the completion of projects.
He found out that the use of Owner’s Project Planning in the construction industry has greatly increased in recent years. Sophisticated technology-based products has required a high degree of design, manufacture, installation, and commissioning skills that have not been readily available to the industry’s Owners. As a result, Owner should outsource to contractors including Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality, Procurement, Risk and Safety inspection.
However, many of contractor companies do not have the necessary expertise to undertake work satisfactorily and, as a consequence, are unable to give their clients the service they require. Therefore, owners need plan approach for building in design and construction which must be done by the project owner to ensure a successful completion of project, and owners needs to develop a strategy that allow him to manage contractor effectively and efficiently.
He also found out that there are similar owner’s projects planning strategy from local owners. It can be concluded that owner’s project planning strategy in terms of procurement and cost from local owners has been aligned and organized, but in terms of schedule, quality and safety aspects, it has been yet organized. Major improvements are needed for the owner’s project planning strategy in local owner in order to improve the contractor management performance. In contrast, it can be concluded that owner’s project planning strategy from international owner in case D, has been aligned and organized in all aspects. However, there are some major points, which need to be improved in order to strengthen and continually improve the strategy performance.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
In Viet Nam, the concept and practice of Owner’s Project Planning (Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality) have been used in recent years. Owner’s Project Planning Approach for the High Rise Building in Design and Construction in the Construction Industry Development has been greatly important, especially high rise building projects. Project Planning is the bridge between the ideas and execution. The purpose of Project Planning is to define the exact parameters of a project and ensure that all the pre-requisites for Project Execution and control are in place. Project planning marks the completion of the Project Plan, no work is left uncovered. At the conclusion of Project Planning, the Business Case is revised and re-evaluated based on the completed Planning documents and a decision is again made to either halt the project, or to commit the resources necessary for Project Execution and control.
The Objective of Owner’s Project Planning is effectively and efficiently including Cost, Scope, Scheduling, Quality, Procurement, Risk, Safety, Manage the relationship in terms of partnering, Leadership Style and Communication. Therefore, Owners need to develop a Project Plan that allows him to control of Design and Construction for High Rise Building Project. In order to understand how the Project Planning is being operated together with the strengths and the weaknesses of high rise building in Design and Construction, Owner’s Project Planning Approach for Petrovietnam Commercial and Financial Centre were investigated through documentation, objective, problem, archival, and interview.
The planning of capital investment project is a project process, which processes from feasibility studies, to preliminary planning and lastly to detailed planning. In this thesis, the project has focused on normative techniques of planning and control namely.
Search in the current literature deals mainly with the following types of Owner’s Project Planning Approach for High Rise Building Project in Design and Construction:
- Cost planning.
- Scope planning.
- Schedule planning.
- Quality planning.
- Risk planning.
- Procurement planning.
Project Planning, especially from the Owner point of view, is a relatively new field. After more than a decade of intensive development it is still difficult to point at significant progress in the understanding of planning principles.
A number of key elements are added to the Project Plan, including project-specific items such as change control, acceptance management and issue management, as well as externally-focused items such as organizational change management and project transition. The initial list of project risks is augmented, and detailed mitigation plans are developed.
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Loc made a research to study the owner’s project planning approach for building project in design and construction and to develop a guideline for project owner to develop project plan to ensure the completion of projects.
He found out that the use of Owner’s Project Planning in the construction industry has greatly increased in recent years. Sophisticated technology-based products has required a high degree of design, manufacture, installation, and commissioning skills that have not been readily available to the industry’s Owners. As a result, Owner should outsource to contractors including Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality, Procurement, Risk and Safety inspection.
However, many of contractor companies do not have the necessary expertise to undertake work satisfactorily and, as a consequence, are unable to give their clients the service they require. Therefore, owners need plan approach for building in design and construction which must be done by the project owner to ensure a successful completion of project, and owners needs to develop a strategy that allow him to manage contractor effectively and efficiently.
He also found out that there are similar owner’s projects planning strategy from local owners. It can be concluded that owner’s project planning strategy in terms of procurement and cost from local owners has been aligned and organized, but in terms of schedule, quality and safety aspects, it has been yet organized. Major improvements are needed for the owner’s project planning strategy in local owner in order to improve the contractor management performance. In contrast, it can be concluded that owner’s project planning strategy from international owner in case D, has been aligned and organized in all aspects. However, there are some major points, which need to be improved in order to strengthen and continually improve the strategy performance.
His thesis abstract is copied and posted.
ABSTRACT
In Viet Nam, the concept and practice of Owner’s Project Planning (Cost, Scope, Schedule and Quality) have been used in recent years. Owner’s Project Planning Approach for the High Rise Building in Design and Construction in the Construction Industry Development has been greatly important, especially high rise building projects. Project Planning is the bridge between the ideas and execution. The purpose of Project Planning is to define the exact parameters of a project and ensure that all the pre-requisites for Project Execution and control are in place. Project planning marks the completion of the Project Plan, no work is left uncovered. At the conclusion of Project Planning, the Business Case is revised and re-evaluated based on the completed Planning documents and a decision is again made to either halt the project, or to commit the resources necessary for Project Execution and control.
The Objective of Owner’s Project Planning is effectively and efficiently including Cost, Scope, Scheduling, Quality, Procurement, Risk, Safety, Manage the relationship in terms of partnering, Leadership Style and Communication. Therefore, Owners need to develop a Project Plan that allows him to control of Design and Construction for High Rise Building Project. In order to understand how the Project Planning is being operated together with the strengths and the weaknesses of high rise building in Design and Construction, Owner’s Project Planning Approach for Petrovietnam Commercial and Financial Centre were investigated through documentation, objective, problem, archival, and interview.
The planning of capital investment project is a project process, which processes from feasibility studies, to preliminary planning and lastly to detailed planning. In this thesis, the project has focused on normative techniques of planning and control namely.
Search in the current literature deals mainly with the following types of Owner’s Project Planning Approach for High Rise Building Project in Design and Construction:
- Cost planning.
- Scope planning.
- Schedule planning.
- Quality planning.
- Risk planning.
- Procurement planning.
Project Planning, especially from the Owner point of view, is a relatively new field. After more than a decade of intensive development it is still difficult to point at significant progress in the understanding of planning principles.
A number of key elements are added to the Project Plan, including project-specific items such as change control, acceptance management and issue management, as well as externally-focused items such as organizational change management and project transition. The initial list of project risks is augmented, and detailed mitigation plans are developed.
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