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Aug 14, 2017
International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management 2016

The Optimization and Strategy Research of the Social Network Structure of the Construction Standards Adoption

Publication: ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction

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Construction safety accidents have brought huge losses to human society. The own characteristics of the construction accidents have determined the construction standards play an important role in the control and mitigation of construction accidents. The extremely complex of the management and risk control are the result of the frequent accidents and the high rate of project failure. The key points are the poor coordination of various stakeholder groups and the ignore of the adaptation to the external environment interaction during the implementation of the construction standards. As a result, this paper focused on the project construction safety accident based on standards adoption behaviors. Using social network analysis to build a social network mode of standards adoption in the process of the construction projects, the paper analyzes the individual networks and their related indicators of the overall network and finds out that the supervisor right has not been achieved well. And then, according to the optimization strategy selection of social network structure under construction accidents during the standards adoption process, this paper determines the governance policies of the construction accidents during the standard adoption process. It is convenient to lower the role risk of the stakeholders during the standards adoption process and improve the success rate of standards adoption of the construction safety accidents.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The research was supported by the Scientific Research Experiment Program for The Trunk Steams Embankment Engineering, Heilongjiang Province: research on the operational management system and mechanism for the Sanjiang governance engineering. The work described in this paper was also funded by the National “Twelfth Five-Year” Science & Technology Program (No. 2012BAJ19B03)”.

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ICCREM 2016: BIM Application and Off-Site Construction
Pages: 367 - 377
Editors: Yaowu Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Mohamed Al-Hussein, Ph.D., Professor, University of Alberta, Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Ph.D., Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Yimin Zhu, Ph.D., Professor, Louisiana State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8027-4

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Ph.D. Candidate, School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 150001. E-mail: [email protected]
Shoujian Zhang [email protected]
Professor, Dept. of Construction Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 150001. E-mail: [email protected]
Zhi Sun, Ph.D. [email protected]
School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 150001. E-mail: [email protected]

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