Overseas Construction Research Articles

Relative efficiency diagnosis of overseas construction projects by construction type using the DEA model

Relative efficiency diagnosis of overseas construction projects by construction type using the DEA model

Analysis of the Impact of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) on the Project Success through PRM Process: Focused on the Overseas Construction Projects

Analysis of the Impact of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) on the Project Success through PRM Process: Focused on the Overseas Construction Projects

An analysis of trends and policy studies in the overseas construction market for effective international development cooperation and the creation of job opportunities for the youth*

An analysis of trends and policy studies in the overseas construction market for effective international development cooperation and the creation of job opportunities for the youth*

Corrigendum to: Issue Identification of Overseas Construction Markets from News Articles Based on BERTopic

Corrigendum to: Issue Identification of Overseas Construction Markets from News Articles Based on BERTopic

Analysis of the Effectiveness of Project Risk Management (PRM) on the Project Success: Focused on the Implementation Phase of Overseas Construction Projects

Analysis of the Effectiveness of Project Risk Management (PRM) on the Project Success: Focused on the Implementation Phase of Overseas Construction Projects

Interaction between regular waves and floating breakwater with protruding plates: Laboratory experiments and SPH simulations

Overseas construction often adopts floating breakwaters as working platforms or wave attenuation. Laboratory and numerical investigations of the hydrodynamics during the interaction between regular waves and floating breakwater with protruding plates were conducted. By coupling DualSPHysics and MoorDyn, the motion of the floating structure under the mooring system is realized. The accuracy of the coupling model is verified by comparing the free surface elevation and floating motion. The effects of protruding types and plate length on the performance of the floating breakwater are analyzed. The results show that the reflection and dissipation coefficients increase with the increase of plate length. Under medium-long period waves, the wave attenuation of floating breakwater with protruding plates is weak. Horizontal protruding plates are more capable of restraining sway than vertical plates. Under the large draft, the horizontal protruding plates are more effective in suppressing the roll.

Construction as a Springboard for Industrialisation: Chinese Overseas Construction Projects and Structural Transformation in Angola, Ethiopia and Nigeria

Construction as a Springboard for Industrialisation: Chinese Overseas Construction Projects and Structural Transformation in Angola, Ethiopia and Nigeria

A Study of Overseas Construction of China National Image in Architecture Writing of Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang’s writing of Chinese architecture in My Country and My People is a short chapter, but it reflects his unique studies into Chinese personality and national spirit. Through the study of Lin Yutang’s architectural writing, we can see the Chinese national spirit and image overseas. Many scholars have studied My Country and My People from different dimensions. However, literary writing of Chinese architrave hasn’t been conducted so much since the popularity of Fan Zhongyan’s Notes of Yueyang Tower. And therefore Lin’s writing is conceived to be of high significance through which the Chinese personality has been analyzed thorougly. By conparison and contrast, based on the thoughts of Chinese sages, this paper aims to (1) analyze the marrow of Chinese national spirit through Lin Yutang’s architectural writing and (2) argue how Lin Yutang through his particular English expression of architecture has successfully delivered the image of China overseas, which has thus exerted a far-reaching impact on its overseas transmission. Through exploration and interpretation of Lin Yutan’s writing, the authors aim to excavate Lin’s appropriate in-depth interpretation of Chinese spirit embedded in Chinese architecture abroad in order to modify certain misunderstandings and mistaken cognition with the expectation to gain deeper comprehension of Chinese spirit internationally.

Issue Identification of Overseas Construction Markets from News Articles Based on BERTopic

Issue Identification of Overseas Construction Markets from News Articles Based on BERTopic

Determinants for the Types and Distribution of China’s foreign-aided buildings in the global south

China's domestic construction market is becoming saturated, and with the support of the government, banks, enterprises, and overseas construction is experiencing sustainable development. Over the past 70 years, China's foreign aid has involved a large exchange of funds, manpower, and materials between donor and recipient countries. Under the guidance of policies, China's construction cooperation with third-world countries has become closer, and overseas project contracting and investment and financing business still show a growing trend. Under the background of global construction technology transfer, Chinese architecture is actively going to the world. This paper discusses the current situation of China's construction assistance from three aspects: types, distribution, and primary drivers, based on a dataset of 766 relevant projects since 1949. Through quantitative and descriptive analysis by inductive reasoning, there is three findings. Constructing a comprehensive and systematic picture of China's aided buildings can give designers, researchers, and policymakers fresh insight into the impacts and further tendencies of China’s overseas architecture.

Education of Young Welding Engineers for Overseas Construction Projects

Education of Young Welding Engineers for Overseas Construction Projects

Economic Crisis Adaptation in Sri Lankan Construction Industry: Pathway to Prosperity

Abstract The construction industry is a critical sector in the nation’s economic growth, accounting for a sizable share of GDP growth. However, it is the most vulnerable industry to a financial depression, whether local or worldwide. The present economic crisis has had an impact on the Sri Lankan construction industry, with more than half a million employees lost their jobs in the previous year. Many major construction firms have either paused or abandoned their projects and shifted to overseas construction. Therefore, understanding the consequences of financial crises regarding construction initiatives in Sri Lanka, as well as anticipated post-crisis growth paths in this sector, necessitates a thorough examination. The goal of this study is to extensively examine the consequences of the 2022 economic crisis on Sri Lankan construction projects and investigate remedies that might start a post-crisis rebound. The study utilized a mixed-method approach, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods. Purposive sampling was used to choose construction industry participants from various backgrounds in order to get a varied range of perspectives. The findings of this study not only emphasize the negative consequences of the crisis but also reveal prospects for development within the industry. The article offers construction professionals and other industry stakeholders useful insights about the foreseeable future of the country’s construction sector. The research looks at prospective growth areas such as the development of infrastructure, sustainable construction strategies, and the usage of emerging technology. The findings of the research can help to ensure that the sector has a robust and productive future.

해외건설의 경제파급효과

우리나라 해외건설은 1965년 태국진출을 시작으로 45년간 약 4,000억 달러에 이르는 수주를 통하여 경제개발에 필요한 재원 마련과 두 번에 걸친 오일쇼크를 극복하는데 큰 역할을 한 것으로 평가받고 있다. 그 외에도 해외건설수주를 통한 외화가득은 국내총생산 기여 및 국내의 고용증대 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 효과를 경제사적 접근과 실증적으로 분석하기 위하여 1970년에서 2010년까지 40년의 해외건설 수주액과 국내거시변수인 총고정자본형성, 건설투자 및 설비투자 증가율 그리고 국내총생산(GDP) 변수를 이용하여 동태적 분석을 위하여 오차수정모형 을 통한 충격반응함수 분석과 분산분해 분석을 시행하였다. 주요 분석결과는 해외건설수주로 인한 충격이 국내 거시변수에 주는 영향은 전체 기간에서 미미하나 대체적으로 양(+)의 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 1990년 이후 기간에서는 해외건설수주로 인한 영향이 여전히 양(+)의 효과를 가졌으나, 충격에 대한 반응은 제한적인 것으로 나타났다.

네트워크 이론을 이용한 한국과 베트남의 관심어 차이 분석

In order to support new construction engineering companies with weak information power to successfully advance into the overseas construction market, this study tried to analyze what are the keywords of interest in the overseas construction market and how they differ from Korea. For this purpose, we recently collected 2,473 news article titles and major articles targeting smart cities that are of high interest in Korea and Vietnam. Through network configuration and topic modeling, we examined the connection relationship between the word of interest and the word of interest. In addition, the influence of the word of interest in the network was measured using PageRank centrality. Through this analysis, it was found that there is a high interest in smart city-related construction, cities, and digital in both countries, and the difference in terms of interest between Korea and Vietnam was inferred. Finally, the limitations of this study and additional research directions to complement them are presented.

Comparative analysis of managers’ perception in overseas construction project risks and cost overrun in actual cases: a perspective of the Republic of Korea

ABSTRACT As the number of overseas projects increase, capabilities of managers should be comprehended by handling risks. Therefore, comparison of project managers’ risk perception and risk handling costs from actual cases is necessary to set the management direction. Thus, eleven risk factors that occur frequently in overseas construction were classified into three categories . Perception of 54 international construction managers were collected by survey and ranked by using relative importance index. Consequently, managers perceived that the impact of risks occurring due to the wrong plan was high and conflict risk was low. Then, the data from 20 cases were amplified by applying Monte-Carlo simulation with statistical verification of reliability and normality . Through multivariable regression analysis, the cost impact of the legal conflict risks with the local subcontractors and engineers was the highest,intensely differed with managers’ perception. Specifically, the risks involving various stakeholders with sufficient time to resolve were not recognized, despite the high-cost impact. Though, fully understanding perception of the host-clients or site labors was difficult, this study is vital in that the conceptual gap was narrowed by numerically comparing the difference between risk perception of managers and actual risk cost. , It would be used as a guideline by focusing on factors with high impact for educating managers at overseas sites.

Avoidance Path of Foreign Exchange Risk Management for Overseas Construction Enterprises in China

Foreign exchange risk management is the focus of overseas construction enterprise management. The quality of its management will affect the profitability of enterprises to a large extent. It is also an important index for comprehensive evaluation of its internal management. The foreign exchange management strategies of China’s overseas construction enterprises mainly include two ways: operational hedging and financial hedging. According to the data of overseas construction enterprises in China from 2011 to 2018, the empirical application shows that enterprises that use only financial hedging have a negative relationship with corporate profits. The better foreign exchange risk management strategy of enterprises should be a comprehensive foreign exchange risk prevention strategy, which mainly relies on operational hedging supplemented by financial hedging.

Sustainable international competitiveness of regional construction industry: Spatiotemporal evolution and influential factor analysis in China

In the context of increasingly fierce competition in the international construction market and gradually saturated Chinese domestic construction industry, regional construction industries urgently need to develop differentiated strategies to achieve sustainable development of international competitiveness. This research combines sustainability perspective with incremental perspective to propose the concept of sustainable international competitiveness and explores the impact of sustainability on the spatiotemporal evolution and influential factors of international competitiveness based on exploratory spatial data analysis and quantile regression method. Analysing panel statistical data from provincial regions in China, we find that most regions develop overseas construction projects independently, resulting in random distribution of competitiveness nationwide; meanwhile, spatiotemporal differentiation characteristics present geographical expansion of competitiveness decline in aggregation regions as well as robust polarization effect and path-dependent effect in dispersion regions. Additionally, determinant influential factors of sustainable international competitiveness vary with competitiveness increasing. These findings manifest unbalanced sustainability performances in strategy-driven and demand-driven regions resulting from single driving mode of competitiveness; reveal heterogeneous development mode of influential factors with inverted U-shaped effect, marginal effect, and escape-competition effect; and provide policy makers at national, regional, and firm levels with improvement strategies tailored to local conditions in extended industrial chain, integrated contracting mode, and updated strategy deployment; promoting high-quality and sustainable development of overseas construction projects with unified policy planning in the regional construction industry.

Study on Development Risk of Overseas Transportation Infrastructure under the New Form Based on Interpretive Structure Model

With the improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength, more and more construction enterprises began to undertake overseas construction projects. Under the premise of the epidemic situation and the increasingly severe international situation, it is of great significance to study the risk control of overseas transportation infrastructure construction. This paper constructs the risk influencing factor model of overseas transportation infrastructure development risk in the new form from six aspects, that is, decision-making risk, design and planning risk, construction risk, operation risk, government risk, and force majeure, and uses the interpretative structure model and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. The key factors affecting the risk of overseas transportation foundation design and development are studied, and the adaptive solutions are put forward.

Big data analysis model for predicting operational risk in overseas construction projects

ABSTRACT In this study, a big data analysis model was developed to predict the risks associated with overseas projects and a big data analysis technique. The risk analysis model can estimate the probability-cost interval for a planned project’s final cost by forming a probability density function and project costs through comparative analysis of data for a planned project and data for a previous similar project. This study attempted to collect a vast amount of information from the web and social networking services (SNS) in order to verify whether this information is sufficient to support the use of the web data analysis method used in this model. To this end, it was assumed that regional traffic conditions would be indicated on the web and SNS. In addition, two regions with different traffic conditions were selected, and then traffic-related keywords and words to enable assessment of traffic conditions were examined. Text information including these words was collected and the proportions of positive and negative words were analyzed. Results confirmed that two regions with different traffic conditions also had different numbers of negative words exhibited on the web.

Study on Post-editing for Machine Translation of Railway Engineering Texts

With rapid development of China's railways, there are more overseas construction projects and technical exchanges in the field of railway engineering, which have generated widespread demands for translation. To meet the increasingly growing demands for translation of railway engineering texts, the mode of machine translation plus post editing (MTPE) has been frequently applied besides traditional human translation (HT) for the combination of translation quality and efficiency. Through the case study of post editing in the machine translation of China's High-Speed Railway by Google Translate, this paper discusses the common error types of machine translation in railway engineering translation, and puts forward corresponding post editing strategies, so as to provide references for MTPE of railway engineering translation in the future. It is hoped that research on post editing in the mode of machine translation for railway engineering texts may improve the translation quality and efficiency, thus helping speed up the process of China's railway going global.