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Sponsored by the Construction Quality Management and Inspection Committee of the Owners Directorate of the Construction Institute of ASCE. Quality in the Constructed Project: A Guide for Owners, Designers, and Constructors, third edition, provides information and recommendations on principles and procedures that are effective in enhancing the quality of constructed projects. The guide—a complete update of the previous edition—discusses the roles, responsibilities, requirements, and limits of authority of participants in the design and construction process, highlighting concepts and practices that are valuable to each in achieving project goals and objectives. This Manual of Practice presents several key themes, including the value of clearly defining and assigning responsibilities, the importance of teamwork, the need for clear contractual provisions, strategies for good communication, the owner's selection process for other team members, the potential benefits associated with various project delivery systems, and procedures for managing design and construction. Although this guide is written primarily with traditional design-bid-build (DBB) projects in mind, it also highlights areas in which alternative forms of project delivery, such as design-build, may shift project responsibilities and risk to different participants. Chapters include: owner's role and requirements; project delivery systems; project team; coordination and communication; selecting the design professional; agreement for professional services; alternative studies and project impacts; planning and managing design; design discipline coordination; guidelines for design activities; precontract planning for construction; construction team; procedures for selecting the constructor; construction contract; planning and managing construction; construction contract documentation and submittals; construction contract administration; operation and maintenance; quality assurance and quality control; computer technology and project delivery; peer review; risk, liability, and avoiding conflict; partnering; and value engineering. MOP 73 will be useful to owners, design professionals, and constructors interested in enhancing the quality of constructed projects.

Engineering --- Building --- Civil engineering --- Construction management --- Quality control --- Owners --- Project management --- Team building --- Value engineering --- Project delivery --- Contracts and subcontracts --- Management --- Specifications

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"New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change. Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure. Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results; Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work; Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well; Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others. Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn." --

330 <01> --- 330 <01> Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse--Bibliografieën. Catalogi --- Theoretische economie. Economische theorie. Economische analyse--Bibliografieën. Catalogi --- Organizational learning --- Teams in the workplace --- Groups, Work --- Team building in the workplace --- Team work in the workplace --- Teambuilding in the workplace --- Teams, Work --- Teamwork in the workplace --- Work groups --- Work teams --- Social groups --- Work environment --- Learning organizations --- Learning --- Communities of practice --- Knowledge management --- Organization theory --- Teams in the workplace. --- Organizational learning. --- Business & economics --- Corporate governance. --- Leadership. --- Organizational development. --- Workplace culture. --- teamwork --- organizational value

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Development projects that span different disciplines and groups often face problems in establishing a shared understanding of the project’s purpose, deliverables, and direction. Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ uses research-based cases from TC Electronic, The Red Cross, Daimler AG, and Copenhagen Living Lab to demonstrate one approach to this problem complex. It shows how prototyping specific physical artifacts can function as drivers and focal points for creating the much needed shared understanding. Encompassing both the participant’s and the facilitator’s point of view, Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ provides both practical examples and theoretical explanation for the process of creating shared understanding. This book provides a toolbox and a practical guide for planning, executing, and facilitating workshops. The result is a clear outline of how to facilitate the creation of physical artifacts that enables and stimulates communication between team members, users, and stakeholders in order to create shared understanding of projects.

New products. --- Production engineering. --- Production management. --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- New products --- Product design --- Project management. --- Teams in the workplace. --- Groups, Work --- Team building in the workplace --- Team work in the workplace --- Teambuilding in the workplace --- Teams, Work --- Teamwork in the workplace --- Work groups --- Work teams --- Industrial project management --- Commercial products --- Management. --- Design and construction --- Engineering. --- Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Industrial psychology. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Project Management. --- Operations Management. --- Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology. --- Management --- Industrial design --- Social groups --- Work environment --- Applied psychology. --- Industrial and Organizational Psychology. --- Applied psychology --- Psychagogy --- Psychology, Practical --- Social psychotechnics --- Psychology --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering --- Business psychology --- Industrial psychology --- Psychotechnics --- Personnel management --- Psychology, Applied --- Industrial psychologists