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    Real-Time Project Productivity Tracking System: Practical Case in Smart Construction Projects
    (School of Built Environment, Massey University, 2022-02-17) Radman K; Babaeianjelodar M; Lovreglio R; Wilkinson S; Ghazizadeh E; Shahzad WM; Rasheed EO; Rotimi JOB
    Motivation: The productivity and progress tracking systems are currently used in construction projects to acquire the site works data and converting to various digital reports. Knowledge gap: To date, capturing and transferring data processes are slow or inefficient because significant human errors occur in the process. Therefore, project managers can omit critical information, and no timely decision can be made related to delay and unproductivity. Aim and objectives: The purpose of this paper is to encompass a real-time project productivity tracking system to register data and manage delays related to an Electrical and Instrument service trade involved in smart construction projects in New Zealand. Research method: The paper aimed to review industries delay reports, use expert judgment experience, and compare the proposed method with current ones. Preliminary or anticipated findings: The finding shows the proposed method uses a combination of smartphone and Ms Project real-time monitoring software to optimise the current site reporting procedure and workflow of productivity managing. Research significance: The presented method should help construction decision-makers enhance time and cost-effectiveness and manage delay better alongside more effective decisions. Meanwhile, hours booked to collect data and update programs and models dropped by 24%.
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    The (un)happiness of knowledge and the knowledge of (un)happiness: Happiness research and policies for knowledge-based economies
    (2008-02-03T20:17:36Z) Engelbrecht, Hans-Juergen
    This paper explores the current state and interfaces of two broad policy discourses, i.e. that of policies for knowledge-based economies (KBEs) and policy implications of happiness research, which so far have exhibited little explicit cross-referencing. I first review the state of 'mainstream' knowledge policy associated with the OECD, the related but somewhat separate literature on information society indicators, and some 'non-mainstream' knowledge policy analysis. This is followed by a brief overview of some of the major policy implications and controversies in happiness research. Next, I discuss major interfaces of the two policy discourses. They mostly concern the nexus of education, work and innovation. I also illustrate the diversity of beliefs and values about some core elements of KBEs in a group of what are usually regarded as similar countries, and advocate the use of subjective variables to capture these differences. The main argument put forward in this paper is that policies for KBEs should be informed by insights from happiness research.
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    Indoor Environment Quality and Productivity: Fable or Fact? A review of past studies
    (20/11/2013) Onyeizu, EN; Byrd, H
    Extensive research that observed a positive relationship between occupant productivity and indoor environment quality (IEQ) in offices emerged in the early 2000s. Since then, it has successfully suggested that as a result of a causal link, the productivity of occupants is determined by the IEQ of an office building mainly Lighting and Temperature. Productivity is thus, the market technique that has accelerated the adoption of green rating tools as a result of it’s commercial value -the extra investment required to construct a ‘Green’ physical office building not only helped the environment but the investment is also recovered by increasing the productivity of its occupants. Through an extensive review of relevant literature, this paper illustrates the gap in research of the measurement of office occupant productivity. It presents the limitations of indicators used in measuring the relationship between IEQ and Productivity in the workplace. It concludes that while IEQ might have a relationship with comfort/satisfaction; there is no substantial evidence in research to state that this relationshipexists with productivity. As such, the use of this claim in promoting green buildings is unsubstantiated. This study is part of an on-going doctoral research in New Zealand, that explores deeper the relationship between occupant productivity and Green office buildings.