| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 土木工程學系碩博士班 === 91 === Construction production is operated by client’s order. Its execution mainly depends on
experience and judgment, and its coordination generally adopts face-to-face
communication approach. Although carrying rich information, the face-to-face
communication is costly compared with other communication approaches, such as written
communication, rules, and procedures. Besides, too much communication is useless for
performance.
The key point of coordination is timing, using proper communication approaches and
tools to provide needed information. The approaches and tools include meetings, schedules,
written clarifications, joint review and so on. These approaches belong to five coordinating
mechanisms: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, work process standardization, output
standardization, and input standardization. It is worth exploring how to adopt
communication approaches, tools, and coordinating mechanisms into construction
execution to cope with various complex and changeable tasks.
Generally speaking, people in the construction industry either do not know the
existence of coordination specifications, or does not care. It seems that the coordination
specifications do not impact construction progress. It is the owner’s responsibility to
establish the specifications of coordination management.
The specifications issued by The
Public Construction Commission are based on MasterFormat of American Construction
Specification Institute (CSI), and the coordination management is compiled in Division
One. Once delving into the content, we discover that it has neither system nor theory basis.
Therefore, the attempt of this research is to analyze and conclude the coordination
approaches and mechanisms, according to the situation of construction industry and
relations among three parties of owner, contractor, and consultant, in addition to referring
to The Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice by American Society of Civil
Engineers, and the coordination management division of MasterFormat. The coordination
management provisions are written in principle to establish the rules of game in order to
replace previous improper specifications.
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