Office Project Research Articles

Examining the relationship between project management office functions and project performance in Ghana: a structural equation modelling approach

Examining the relationship between project management office functions and project performance in Ghana: a structural equation modelling approach

Analisis Perbandingan Aplikasi Program Microsoft Project Dan Metode Cpm Dalam Penjadawalan Proyek Konstruksi

Ganesha Hotel problems can affect the delay of a project. Often the project delays will be very expensive, good value. viewed from the contractor's and owner's side. In order to avoid incurring implementation time and costs, it is necessary to carry out project scheduling so that research on project completion time to avoid problems using the existing critical path method and MS Project scheduling will be very useful in project development. the relationship between one activity and other activities and the entire project, identifying activities that must be prioritized, the benefits of the critical path method is knowing the critical path, delays in project activities on the critical path will automatically hinder all project activities, and this Microsoft Office Project MS Project tool for more efficient projects and project portfolio management, the most frequently used for MS Project for construction projects are the main modules of MS Project including project work and project teams. This MS Project makes it easier to create construction schedules, create Wed prices This research is a descriptive analysis, namely describing the condition of the construction of the Ganesha Hotel by collecting data from the project using this method to analyze the efficiency, time and cost of research using the Ms Project application and the Critical Path Method. The prediction results for each segment are compared to make a comparison to find out which work needs to be done. comes first and work that doesn't need to come first. From the research carried out, it can be concluded that in the research process using Ms Project, the results were that the completion time was 189 days from the project plan of 210 days, so there was a time efficiency of 21 days, whereas in the research using CPM, the results were that the completion time was 188 days from the project plan of 210 days, so there were efficiency 22 days From the research we conducted to compare the time of Ms Project and Critical Path Method there is a difference of one day while for the costs obtained from comparing the 2 methods IDR 26,426,500,000

Evaluation of LEED-certified office buildings in Turkey in terms of sustainable material use

Environmental issues such as ozone depletion, global warming, water pollution, and melting glaciers in the polar regions have been exacerbated by industrial and chemical activities, as the Industrial Revolution led to unlimited use of our limited natural resources. Approaches have been developed to solve human and environmental health problems. Efforts are underway to minimize the adverse effects of buildings on the environment. This process helps reduce materials' environmental damage and select environmentally friendly materials. For these reasons, producing recyclable, ecologically friendly, and energy-saving materials has gained importance. This article used a case study method to analyze sustainable material usage using twenty LEED-certified office projects in Turkey. Twenty new buildings, including Certificate One, Silver Three, Gold Eight, and Platinum Eight, have been evaluated regarding sustainable materials according to LEED criteria. Tables containing material and resource application principles have been created to assess the selected buildings in terms of sustainable material principles, and these prepared tables provide information about sustainable material use. The evaluation is based on eight criteria and sources of LEED material, including recyclable materials, renewable materials, rapidly renewable, certified wood, regional materials, construction waste management, and re-use of materials. As a result of the study, it was determined that 95% to 75% of the five categories with the weakest application among the eight basic materials and resource principles failed to be below the desired level and should be improved.

ANALISIS DURASI DAN BIAYA DENGAN METODE RESOURCES LEVELING PADA PEMBANGUNAN BALAI SERBAGUNA BANJAR WONGAYA BETAN TABANAN

In the Multipurpose Hall Advanced Development project in Banjar Wongaya Betan, Tabanan Regency, there was an overall allocation of human resources which caused a mismatch between plans and realization in the field, where implementation experienced delays in the 6th, 7th, and 8th weeks. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a human resource leveling method to minimize deviations between needs and the availability of existing human resources, namely by Resources Leveling using the help of Microsoft Office Project 2019. The Resources Leveling method is carried out by shifting non-critical activities within the available grace time so that available resources are not overloaded. This research aims to analyze the duration of activities and costs required for the project through descriptive research methods with a quantitative approach and using secondary data sources from the implementing contractor, namely CV. Sustainable Gold. Based on the analysis results, it was found that the number of human resources that were initially overallocated could be optimized after the leveling process was carried out using the resource leveling method with Microsoft Office Project 2019. The leveling process affected the project duration, from 90 days to 103 days. This is because of max. units of labor that the contractor is able to provide cannot meet the max. units required for project implementation. Meanwhile, the cost of human resources required is not affected by the leveling process, namely, it still costs IDR 71,981,700.

Optimal Investment Strategy for α-Robust Utility Maximization Problem

In reality, investors are uncertain about the dynamics of risky asset returns. Therefore, investors prefer to make robust investment decisions. In this paper, we propose an α-robust utility maximization problem under uncertain parameters. The investor is allowed to invest in a financial market consisting of a risk-free asset and a risky asset. The uncertainty about the expected return rate is parameterized by a nonempty set. Different from most existing literature on robust utility maximization problems where investors are generally assumed to be extremely ambiguity averse because they tend to consider only expected utility in the worst-case scenario, we pay attention to the investors who are not only ambiguity averse but also ambiguity seeking. Under power utility, we provide the implicit function representations for the precommitted strategy, equilibrium strategy of the open-loop type, and equilibrium strategy of the closed-loop type. Some properties about the optimal trading strategies, the best-case and worst-case parameters under three different kinds of strategies, are provided. Funding: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grants 12071147, 12171169, 12271171, 12371470, 71721001, 71931004, 72371256], the Shanghai Philosophy Social Science Planning Office Project [Grant 2022ZJB005], Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [Grant 2022QKT001], the Excellent Young Team Project Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China [Grant 2023B1515040001], the Philosophy and Social Science Programming Foundation of Guangdong Province [Grant GD22CYJ17], the Nature Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China [Grant 2022A1515011472], and the 111 Project [Grant B14019].

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Commercial Interior Version 4 (LEED-CI v4) Gold-Certified Office Space Projects: A Pairwise Comparative Analysis between Three Mediterranean Countries

Over the past five years, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Commercial Interior version 4 (LEED-CI v4)-certified office projects have been intensively studied in the USA and China, but they have not yet been studied in the Mediterranean region. The purpose of this study was to explore office building certification strategies for LEED-CI v4-certified projects in the Mediterranean region. The study design included pairwise comparative analyses between Spain (number of projects (n) n1 = 14), Türkiye (n2 = 13), and Israel (n3 = 11). Cliff’s δ and exact Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney tests were used to process ordinal and discrete data, while the natural logarithm of the odds ratio and 2 × 2 Fisher’s exact tests were used to handle dichotomous data. It was found that Spain and Türkiye outperformed Israel in the Location and Transportation (LT) category due to their desire to reduce the use of private transport. Spain and Türkiye were ahead of Israel in the LTc5 “reduced parking footprint” credit (p = 0.008 and 0.0005, respectively). Israel outperformed Spain and Türkiye in the Energy and Atmosphere (EA) category due to the sum of all six EA credits (p = 0.086 and 0.010). Spain overtook Türkiye and Israel in the Materials and Resources (MRs) category due to Spain’s increased use of environmental product declarations. Spain and Türkiye were ahead of Israel in the following four MRs credits: MRc1 “long-term commitment” (p = 0.030), MRc2 “interiors life cycle impact reduction” (p = 0.037), MRc3 “building product disclosure and optimization—environmental product declarations” (p = 0.029), and MRc5 “building product disclosure and optimization—material ingredients” (p = 0.034). Spain, Türkiye, and Israel showed similarly low levels of achievement in the Indoor Environmental Quality (EQ) category (p ≥ 0.405). However, Spain and Türkiye outperformed Israel in the following two credits: EQc1 “enhanced indoor air quality strategies” and EQc2 “low-emitting materials” (p = 0.001 and 0.060, respectively). In parallel, Israel outperformed Türkiye in the EQc3 “construction indoor air quality management plan” (p = 0.026), and Israel outperformed Spain in the EQc8 “quality views” credit (p = 0.066). As a result, a pairwise comparison of the three Mediterranean countries showed that each country has a unique LEED certification strategy. Knowledge of the above green building strategies will be helpful for LEED professionals.

Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Interior Design Education: A Case Study on Creating Office Spaces for “Avrupa Yakası” TV Series Characters

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into interior design education is a growing trend. This study presents a warm-up assignment where students used AI design tools to develop a concept of contemporary office designs inspired by characters from the TV series “Avrupa Yakası.” The goal was to prepare students for an office design project while introducing them to AI applications. The AI-generated designs reflected character personalities and aesthetic preferences. Findings show the AI’s capability to translate textual cues into visual designs, but limitations arise due to insufficient definitions in the AI’s memory. The study highlights AI’s potential for assisting in design inspiration but also emphasizes the need for continuous AI database development. This initiative contributes to understanding AI’s role in design education and its evolving impact on creative processes.

Studi Kinerja Manajemen Konstruksi pada Proyek Pembangunan Kantor DPRD Sabu Raijua

In implementing a project, it is inevitable that various problems will slowly arise which will result in delays, decreased quality, and increased implementation costs. So this is a serious challenge, how will the problem be solved with the work system implemented so that the Sabu Raijua Regency DPRD office project can continue according to the initial plan. This study aims to determine the implementation of the construction management work system, determine the factors that influence the construction management work system and determine the actions that need to be taken in implementing the construction management work system using descriptive statistical analysis methods and quantitative analysis. The results showed that the perceptual analysis resulted in a percentage value of 63%. From the results of the analysis of the mean and IKR, it was found that the factors that influence the work system based on the most influential management functions are the evaluation, actuating, organizing, planning, and controlling functions. As for the actions that need to be taken in implementing work systems that are most influential based on management functions are the evaluation, organizing, planning, actuating, and controlling functions.

Office to housing conversion: estimating life cycle environmental and financial performance

Renovating existing building is often touted as having an improved environmental performance as compared to demolition and construction. However, very few studies have quantified the life cycle environmental benefits resulting from such renovations. The aim of this research is to provide a benchmark based on a real and representative case study building to estimate life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and financial costs of redeveloping an office building by considering different scenarios: (1) renovation as an office building; (2) conversion as a residential building; (3) demolition and construction of an office building and (4): demolition and construction of a residential building. Results show that the demolition-construction scenarios are undoubtedly the most environmentally impactful, but the difference between offices and housing is less significant and depends greatly on the assumptions made. On the other hand, from a tax point of view, the demolition-construction scenario is favoured by the real estate industry because it allows for the recovery of VAT in the operation and thus maximizes the value of the real estate asset as well as the financial return. There is also a significant difference between the profitability of a housing and an office project. The latter is favoured by market values. The tendency to favour offices in the European district could be reversed in the current post covid situation and solutions exist to encourage the development of housing projects through office conversion.

Interior designers’ strategies for creating social office space

The rise of remote working has highlighted the importance of office spaces that support employees’ social well-being. However, there is a lack of explicit knowledge on how to design such spaces. In order to address this gap, this study explored the strategies employed by practitioners in designing social office spaces. In-depth interviews with fifteen experienced interior designers were analysed using means-end chain theory. This revealed the designers’ common aim to encourage informal social interactions through creating attractive, spacious, recognisable, and spatially integrated breakout spaces. Additionally, communicating group identity, promoting visibility, and offering a cosy atmosphere aimed to foster a sense of connectedness among employees. These findings not only enable more deliberate design decisions but also serve as valuable insights for less experienced designers. Moreover, the framework of design components, affordances and design objectives that emerged from this study can enhance communication between designers and stakeholders involved in office projects.

Application of the Crashing Method in the Construction of District Office Buildings Karangrejo

In the world of construction in the development sector, arrangements regarding cost, quality, and completion time of construction work are bound in the work contract and are decided before the construction work is carried out. This study aims to find out the total time and costs after adding working hours and knowing the comparison of time and costs from the initial plan with what has been done with additional working hours. Planning and control is something that cannot be explained in carrying out a project, this implementation requires a long time and serious effort and it depends on effective control. This research will speed up the schedule for the construction of the Karangrejo District Office Building project using the crashing method. From the results of the analysis and calculations described above, it can be concluded that the construction project for the Karangrejo District Office Building's total costs and project time under normal conditions is IDR 2,572,500,000 with a normal duration of 189 days. After adding 3 hours of overtime work, a total cost of Rp. 2,817,500,000 was obtained by consuming an accelerated duration of 180 days. In terms of project costs, applying acceleration by adding a 3-hour overtime system has increased costs by IDR 25,000,000 or more expensive than the normal project costs. Meanwhile, the duration experienced an increase of 4.70% or 9 days faster than the initial normal project duration.

Comparison of State and Private Universities in Turkiye in terms of Instruction and R& D Regarding the Reports of the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK)

Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) started to publish University Monitoring and Evaluation General Reports since 2019. Three reports (2019-2020-2021) have been published. Average annual data of state and private universities in Turkey are available in these reports. These reports also include data about various aspects of university education under the titles of Instruction and Research & Development (R&D). This study aims to determine pros and cons of state and private universities for Turkish and international university applicants by comparing the data averages of the 2019, 2020 and 2021 reports about the Instruction and the Research & Development (R&D) of both university types. Under the Instruction title; data about number of accredited undergraduate programs, occupancy rate of the programs, number of students participating in teknokent (technopole) or technology transfer office (TTO) projects, number of programs in the top 5% of the public servant selection exam (KPSS), number of international symposiums, congresses or artistic exhibitions, number of social responsibility projects implemented by students, number of industrial projects implemented by students and number of printed books and e-publications for each student were examined. Under the Research & Development title; data about number of publications published in national peer-reviewed journals and in SCI, SCI-Expanded, SSCI and AHCI indexed journals, number of cited publications in the top 10%, number of applied and granted patents, utility models and designs, number of R&D projects supported by national and international institutions and organizations, ratio of investment budget spent on R&D, income except for subsidy, innovation and product development income from laboratory services within the scope of R&D and number of joint projects with industry were examined. Document analysis method was used in the study as a qualitative research method. Document analysis includes the analysis of written materials containing information about the phenomenon or facts to be investigated. In the field of education: Textbooks, instructional regulations, internal and external correspondence, official documents... can be used as data source (Yıldırım and Şimşek, 2013, pp.217-218). Data averages of state and private universities were evaluated. Data differences among universities in same category were not included. The results shows that both state and private universities have pros and cons in terms of instruction and R&D, but state universities are advantageous regarding data numbers and diversity. While private universities are profit-oriented and attach importance to individual development, state universities are more collaborative and are community-oriented. Keywords: state university, private university, universities in Turkiye, instruction, R&D

Holbein Gardens: delivering a low-carbon structure with reclaimed steel

Holbein Gardens is an office redevelopment project in London being delivered within the UKGBC’s net-zero carbon buildings framework. The project involves the refurbishment of a 1980s concrete-framed building and construction of a one-storey vertical extension. This article describes the design team's approach to minimising the embodied carbon of the project, with a particular focus on the use of reclaimed steel. The article discusses several considerations relating to the reuse of steelwork, including sourcing, design challenges, testing and insurance, and aesthetics. The use of 25t of reclaimed steel on the project is estimated to have saved 35t of carbon compared with new steelwork. An average figure of 0.3kgCO2e/kg (stages A1–A5) has been calculated for the reused steelwork, helping to deliver an overall figure of just 65kgCO2e/m2 for the structural embodied carbon of the building (excluding the facade).

Agile office work as embodied spatial practice: A spatial perspective on ‘open’ New Work environments

An increasing number of companies transform their traditional office spaces into open work environments, often as part of an effort for working relations to evolve away from rigid and hierarchical structures. Contrary to intentions, recent studies show how open office projects tend to re-produce social hierarchy and norms but say only little about how these socio-spatial structures come into being. In this study, we demonstrate how a workspace designed as ‘open’ is being (re-)produced and negotiated in everyday spatial practices. We investigate this question in an ethnographic research design using the example of office redesign at a German financial service company and from the perspective of social theories of space. First, we develop a critical perspective on the ‘new office’ by demonstrating that office work redesign is a political process. Through a focus on spatial practices of office work, we disclose movement and sound as crucial dimensions in the socio-political construction of ‘agile’ office work and of a social hierarchy in the open office. Second, based on our findings we propose that openness in organizational space, rather than being a design feature of a specific work environment, needs to be understood as a generative social process.

Exploring Student Perceptions Of Their Learning Through Flexible Internships

The Covid pandemic has required a more flexible delivery of student internships, but how do international students think about what they have learned from their internship experience? This article follows a mixed-mode pragmatic approach to explore student perceptions of internship as a form of experiential learning. The views of a cohort of applied management undergraduates were investigated soon after the completion of different types of internships: company placement, offshore, blended and student-run Green Office projects. Surveys and focus groups were used to gain insight into students’ motivation as interns, what they felt they achieved and the capabilities they valued the most, as compared to earlier research into the perceptions of business employers. Findings indicate that, as with employers, verbal communication, teamwork and problem-solving are among the most valued capabilities. More surprising, however, is the learners’ regard for independence, responsibility and ethics. While these can be interpreted in various ways, the effect of the Covid pandemic on workplaces and practices casts a new light on the students’ perception of their internship experience. Meanwhile, the most striking difference between the student groups was the high level of awareness and commitment of Green Office interns. These findings suggest the following improvements: more attention to student perceptions in the flexible delivery of internships; re-evaluating the expectations of stakeholders; the further development of Green Office to engage students, provide powerful internship experiences and develop self-efficacy beliefs that will promote sustainable approaches for a better future.

Collaboration and Friendship, Art and Architecture

Will McLean discusses the close bond and respect between his artist father Bruce McLean and Will Alsop, and shares insights into some of their important collaborations. Will McLean had worked as a teenager in Alsop's office, was inspired by him to study at the Architectural Association and subsequently worked on a number of key office projects in the 1990s. He observed first-hand the creative ethos and free-ranging discipline that his father and Alsop worked relentlessly – and with unfailing good-humour – to materialise in projects for buildings, paintings and products.

Life-Cycle Assessment in the LEED-CI v4 Categories of Location and Transportation (LT) and Energy and Atmosphere (EA) in California: A Case Study of Two Strategies for LEED Projects

This study aimed to identify different certification strategies for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Commercial Interior version 4 (LEED-CI v4) gold-certified office projects in California’s cities and to explore these certification strategies using life-cycle assessments (LCAs). The LEED-CI v4 data were divided into two groups: high- and low-achievement groups in the Location and Transportation (LT) category. The author identified two strategies for achieving the same level of certification across LEED-CI v4 projects: (1) high achievements in LT (LTHigh) and low achievements in the Energy and Atmosphere (EA) category (EALow), and (2) low achievements in the LT category (LTLow) and high achievements in EA (EAHigh). The author adopted LTHigh–EALow and LTLow–EAHigh achievements as functional units for LCA. Three alternatives were LTHigh: typical bus, EALow: gas; LTLow: typical car, EAHigh: gas; and LTLow: eco-friendly car, EAHigh: gas, where a typical bus used diesel, a typical car used natural gas, an eco-friendly car used EURO5diesel, and natural gas was used as a building’s operational energy. The ReCiPe2016 results showed that the LTHigh: typical bus, EALow: gas strategy was preferable from a short-term perspective, and the LTLow: eco-friendly car, EAHigh: gas strategy was preferable in a long-term and an infinite time perspective, while the LTLow: typical car, EAHigh: gas strategy continued to be the most environmentally damaging certification strategy for all the time horizons of the existing pollutants. Thus, it can be concluded that if there are alternative strategies for LEED certification, an analysis of their LCAs can be useful to refine the best sustainable strategy.

ASSESSMENT QUALITY RISK FACTORS DURING THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF THE BICONSI TOWER PROJECT

Project performance is assessed by various criteria. One of the typical triangle criteria used to assess the performance of any office building project is quality. However, office projects in Vietnam have faced numerous quality risks, particularly during their construction periods. This can cause the building projects behind schedule and over budget. As a result, identifying quality risk factors throughout the construction phase of office projects is essential. Therefore, this paper has applied the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to prioritize critical risk factors affecting project quality during the construction phase of the Biconsi Tower project in Vietnam. The research results showed that the five top risk factors affecting the quality of the Biconsi Tower project with decreasing impact levels are as follows: (1) Inspection and acceptance work are not in accordance with regulations and procedures, (2) Lack of coordination between project stakeholders; (3) Poor quality design documents and drawings; (4) Poor construction methods; and (5) Poor quality input materials.

Inclusive Rural Spaces in Architecture Education

Pedagogies of building systems in architectural education are traditionally framed as the technical knowledge guiding construction, material applications, structures, and mechanical building services. This paper provides a framework and a case study for centering inclusive and universal design principles in the teaching of building systems with a focus on designing public spaces for rural and aging populations. It proposes methods for integrating design accountability, sustainable environmental practices, and cultural contexts into architectural design and education.Public spaces, services, and resources are spread thinly outside of cities and denser communities, creating barriers to access for aging populations among others. This pedagogical framework for inclusive rural architecture focuses on post offices as one of the few public institutions in rural communities and a vital conduit to essential services (particularly during health crises). In the speculative space of architecture curriculum, students conceived of additional services and programs to rethink the role of post offices in communities. These programs targeted accessibility barriers by providing digital resource centers, transportation hubs, and community gathering spaces.The flexibility, adaptability, and comfort at the core of universal design principles provide a lens for understanding sustainable environmental techniques. Adaptable buildings constructed with replaceable and reusable parts allow for repair and resiliency over time. Material and structural systems designed for intuitive use and presentation of information promote accessible communication. Passive systems design enables comfort in dialog with the environment and a reduction in required energy. However as passive systems often require building operability, inclusive design principles call for building systems to be operable by diverse users. Post office projects in this case study integrated universal design principles to achieve energy efficient buildings that respond to changing climates and rural cultural contexts.Replacing minimum standards for accessibility within curricula with inclusive design criteria is also enacted through methodologies. While educational institutions are clustered in urban areas, many students come from or have ties to rural communities. The focus on rural public spaces and aging populations is a means for students to bring their own diverse backgrounds, places of origin, and histories into their academic studies. In combining methods of engaged research with a universal design-focused pedagogy for building systems, students expand technical knowledge of architectural design with the objective of creating equitable and inclusive public spaces.
 
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Relationship between Project Space Types, Optimize Energy Performance Credit, and Project Size in LEED-NC Version 4 (v4) Projects: A Case Study

A previous study (Pushkar 2021) showed a significant non-parametric correlation between the Optimize Energy Performance credit from the energy and atmosphere category (EAc7) and project size in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for New Construction and Major Renovations version 4 (LEED-NC v4) office space projects. However, in such an empirical analysis, there are at least two problems: the choice between parametric and non-parametric statistics, and the choice between the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney (WMW) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) non-parametric tests. This study aims to evaluate EAc7 credit achievement for different types of spaces in LEED-NC v4 projects. We show that, in order to evaluate the differences between two LEED data groups, (1) a non-parametric procedure is preferable to a parametric one, and (2) if there is Spearman’s correlation between EAc7 credit achievement and project size for the same LEED-NC v4 project, then Quade’s ANCOVA is preferable to WMW. The results of these tests show that, in two out of three cases, office space projects had better EAc7 credit achievement than higher-education spaces at the gold certification level and public assembly spaces at the silver certification level.