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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948, et al.
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Construction productivity measures for innovation projects
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management - ASCE. - 1943-7862 .- 0733-9364. ; 138:5, s. 670-677
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A 30-year retrospective analysis of resource use in a range of new construction and repair projects reveals insignificant productivity increase when applying traditional narrow measures, as shown in a case study of beam bridges. It appears as necessary to estimate hidden quality changes in both outputs and inputs. Changes in government regulations, in specifications, and the development of nonprice criteria for contract award emerge as important. Schemes for benchmarking the performance of construction projects as well as life-cycle analyses suggest that customer risk aversion and effects on customer productivity should be taken into account. The outcome is a set of measurements that can be applied to the selection of any type of proposed new construction or repair technology innovation according to their potential impact on industry productivity.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948
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New output quality indicators in construction productivity measurement
- 2011
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Ingår i: MISBE2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Management and Innovation for a Sustainable Built Environment, Amsterdam 19-23 June 2011, eds J.W.F. Wamelink, R.P. Geraedts and L. Volker.. - 9789052693958
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Productivity increase in the construction industry is often seen as low. Construction innovation projects could be prioritized partly based on expected contribution to industry productivity. Quality change in construction outputs and inputs is crucial. The purpose is to explore new output quality indicators. The analysis draws upon life cycle analyses for facilities, project benchmarking schemes and environmental assessment systems. Disruption of client core activities due to technology and method choice in construction projects should be taken into account, and also the willingness of clients to pay for risk reduction. The result is a set of output measures. Primary output is identified as ‘useful area’. Secondary output measures, with estimates provided by expert panels, would include effects on future energy consumption, effects on other future operations and maintenance resource needs, effects on client/user disruption, reduction of client/user risk during operation and maintenance, user comfort, architectural quality, and external societal effects. However, it would not be feasible or even desirable to collect a wider range of data routinely for the production of official statistics at the industry level.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948
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Comparing performance measurement for industrial maintenance and facility management
- 2018
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Ingår i: Revue Europeenne d' Economie et Management des Services. - 2497-0107. ; 1:5, s. 45-63
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Performance indicators for industrial maintenance differ from those used for facility management. Based on the concept of measurement cost and recent survey articles, the organizational contexts, including service triads, servitization, as well as outcome-based contracts, are analysed. Differences are attributed to customer orientation, precision of initial status documentation and relative importance of subjective evaluations of performance.
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Measuring the productivity of facilities management
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Facilities Management. - 1741-0983 .- 1472-5967. ; 15:3, s. 285-301
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify methods appropriate for measuring the direct productivity of facilities management (FM) with respect to the providers, on both the industry level and the firm level.Design/methodology/approach – This is a literature survey and conceptual analysis.Findings – Prior studies are dominated by subjective assessments of how the office environment affects individual labour productivity. While the available EU data on productivity growth for the FM industry indicate a negative trend, they might be misleading. More recent research on the productivity of business services providers could be applied to the measurement of the productivity of FM firms. Co-production and effects of client satisfaction are important issues for measurement.Research limitations/implications – The analysis is concentrated on the direct productivity of FM providers. There is a need to develop objective measures of provider productivity, and there is a particular challenge in measuring how FM clients contribute to the productivity of FM providers.Practical implications – Providers of FM services should be able to assess the efficiency of their resource use more clearly and to balance user satisfaction against resource use more efficiently.Social implications – The effects of co-production with clients need to be recognised, considering productivity effects on both providers and clients jointly. Sustainability is an argument for an increased focuson resource use in FM.Originality/value – This is the first overview of issues raised when measuring the direct productivity of FM itself rather than indirect FM effects on office worker labour productivity.
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- Bröchner, Jan, 1948
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Construction project management fiction: Individual values
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Project Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0263-7863. ; 39:6, s. 594-604
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Works of fiction are used in organizational studies for pedagogical purposes and as sources of data. The aim here is to analyse fictional treatments of construction project management, with a focus on project managers’ individual values. Fourteen novels, two short stories and four plays are included. Among the 18+18 individual Rokeach values, imagination, love, ambition, courage and happiness are frequently highlighted by authors. Earlier research on project managers has not shown imagination and love to be important. Studying fiction offers a broader representation of human aspects of project work, such as unethical behaviour, than can be gained from biographies, interviews and questionnaires. Works of literature can be used for more than pedagogical purposes. The relation between project managers’ project commitments and their personal ties outside the project context is a recurring topic in fiction.
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