Innovation in construction: a sociology of technology approach

An alternative approach to understanding innovation is made using two intersecting ideas. The first is that successful innovation requires consideration of the social and organizational contexts in which it is located. The complex context of construction work is characterized by inter-organizational collaboration, a project-based approach and power distributed amongst collaborating organizations. The second is that innovations can be divided into two modes: 'bounded', where the implications of innovation are restricted within a single, coherent sphere of influence, and 'unbounded', where the effects of implementation spill over beyond this. Bounded innovations are adequately explained within the construction literature. However, less discussed are unbounded innovations, where many firms' collaboration is required for successful implementation, even though many innovations can be considered unbounded within construction's inter-organizational context. It is argued that unbounded innovations require an approach to understand and facilitate the interactions both within a range of actors and between the actors and technological artefacts. The insights from a sociology of technology approach can be applied to the multiplicity of negotiations and alignments that constitute the implementation of unbounded innovation. The utility of concepts from the sociology of technology, including 'system building' and 'heterogeneous engineering', is demonstrated by applying them to an empirical study of an unbounded innovation on a major construction project (the new terminal at Heathrow Airport, London, UK). This study suggests that 'system building' contains outcomes that are not only transformations of practices, processes and systems, but also the potential transformation of technologies themselves.     

思路创新机制创新体制创新开创南水北调东线工程治污工作新局面

南水北调东线工程治污工作是涉及全局性的、复杂的系统工程。治污工作的好坏直接关系到东线工程的成败。在全面建设小康社会的新时期，必须加强治污工作的创新意识，以实施控制单元治污方案为基础，建立水质、总量、项目、投资、责任五位一体的新的治污机制，将节水、治污、生态环境保护与调水有机结合，通过提高排污水收费，改革治污设施运营机制，建立有效的治污体制和监督检查机制，保障东线输水干线实现清水廊道，开创南水北调东线工程治污工作的新局面。     

Time and cost securing in complex large-scale projects

Meeting time and cost objectives in complex projects involves specific problems and risks. An attempt is made to analyse the components of total cost increase of a project caused by time delay. An outline is given as to how these considerations can be used to estimate cost increases in investors' decision situations as well as to ascertain fair contractual penalties and claims for compensation and for the evaluation of justified project acceleration costs.     

工程项目投标报价中的风险分析

针对目前国内的招投标制度和方法,投标报价风险成为企业能否中标的最大风险,报价在招标中占的分数权重在40%~60%之间,对能否中标起到决定性的作用。从总承包商自身能力及有意识行为、总承包模式3个方面对工程项目中的投标报价风险进行了分析。     

土卡河水电站混凝土新型复合掺合料研究与应用

土卡河水电站采用磨细矿渣加石灰石粉的新型复合掺合料替代粉煤灰作为混凝土中掺合料。文章介绍了这种新型复合掺合料的性能和应用情况。     

项目管理软件的开发思路

详细介绍了项目管理的发展及项目管理软件的现状。通过对P3管理软件的分析论述，得出项目管理软件系统的开发方案。     

Treatment of depressive symptoms during short-term rehabilitation: An attempted replication of the DOUR project.

Objective: To replicate and extend P. A. Lichtenberg and colleagues' (1996) cross-disciplinary intervention to improve physical and mental health among older adults. Participants: 14 depressed older adults (6 treatment, 8 control). Setting: The short-term rehabilitation unit of an urban nursing home. Intervention: Occupational therapists were trained to treat depression using pleasant events and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Outcome Measures: Geriatric Depression Scale, the Short Form-12, and the Multi-Level Assessment Instrument: Activities of Daily Living. Results: No significant group differences were found in physical or mental health. However, more control group members (75%) than treatment group members (33%) were depressed at study completion. Conclusions: The treatment of depressive symptoms can be integrated with a nonmental health treatment modality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

抗裂合成纤维混凝土在尼尔基发电厂房工程中的应用

为了提高发电厂房水轮机混凝土蜗壳的抗裂、抗渗、抗冲击、抗震、抗冲耐磨性能，在尼尔基水利枢纽工程蜗壳混凝土的施工中掺加抗裂合成纤维，厂房项目部试验人员对蜗壳混凝土进行了掺加抗裂合成纤维（CTA Fiber）试验，试验结果及工程实际应用效果良好，提高了工程质量，支持了国家重点工程建设。     

基于PSR模型的水电工程生态效应评价指标体系构想

从水电工程生态效应评价指标体系研究的意义出发,通过分析水电工程生态效应评价的内涵,确立了评价指标的选取原则,基于压力(Pressure)-状态(State)-响应(Response)概念模型,构建了以科学、实用和可操作为目标的评价指标体系的框架。     

H9000系统在西北电网水调自动化系统工程中的应用

西北电网水调自动化系统主要用于自动采集管理西北电网分布在三大水系的8个水电厂、相关流域内100个水文站、200个雨量站的实时信息，以便实现水库群跨流域补偿，统一协调发电与防洪、排沙、防凌、灌溉等一系列矛盾，解决水库群综合利用问题．系统主要具有上。下特点：（1）开放的系统环境；（2）高可乘性；（3）多样化的数据规约；（4）开放的人机联系手段；（5）务性能的数据库；（6）丰富的水调应用软件．其中水调应用软件包括：（1）汉江上游石泉、安康梯级联合洪水预报；（2）黄河上游龙羊峡、李家峡、刘家峡两库三站短期（日）调度；（3）水务综合统计分析软件．西北水调自动化系统将使H9000系统在大规模网络关系数据库管理技术、高级图形处理技术、复杂网络组网技术、容措技术、水调高级应用软件技术等方面提高到一个更高的水平．