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6. Pursuit of Innovation
6. Pursuit of Innovation
Pages 85-99
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In addition to making a greater effort in research and development and enhancing education and training, the U.S. construction industry must rekindle its enthusiasm for innovation if it is to maintain its place in the global economy.
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Such devices can extend human strength and dexterity through robotics; support data collection and analysis to enhance the speed and effectiveness of human actions; and make possible graphic input and output of data and so begin to substitute a picture for a thousand words. Such innovations may have profound implications for construction.
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Early American bridge innovations (from the nineteenth century) are a good example, because generous royalties were paid for the use of the ideas that had been granted patents.
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It will be difficult to structure these developments to match the performance requirements of a society utilizing advanced science and technology, and make them more than incremental improvements to the present modal technologies. In the developing part of the world, where the most rapid urbanization is happening, the challenge is to develop technology appropriate to their requirements rather than to impose solutions produced for industrial nations.
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Residential buildings Nonresidential buildings (organized by functions) Industrial Office Other commercial (warehouses, silos, retail stores shopping malls, drugstores, parking art vendee stations.
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Subtotal 17,88314,418 Highways and streets 16,29416,294 Military facilities 2,839 Conservation and development 4,6544,654 (water resource protection and control, fish hatcheries, spillways, pollution control, levees, seawalls, canals, docks, piers, wharves, berths, and reservoirs built other than for potable water supply) Sewer systems 6,2416,241 Water supply facilities 2,6212,621 Miscellaneous 4,6544,654 (recreational facilities, power generating facilities, and other open construction for subways, streetcars, airport runways, parking, and so on)
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. Central heating systems that, especially when they began to use the fluid fossil fuels of oil and gas, changed the logistics of supplying fuel for heat since fuel no longer had to be manually suppled to separate stoves and fireplaces located throughout a building (and ashes no longer had to be removed from each separate heating device)
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The Urban Mass Transportation Administration sponsored a research and development project to install concrete segments in one stretch of the Baltimore subway, and suddenly this became the standard technology for U.S. transit systems.
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. ~ ~ ~ · 1 · _ 1 ~ _ _ ~1_ _r _ _~ ~ _ ~ _ ~ ~ ~ the potential world economic ana SOClal DenenL~ Of capturllls ~ll=~= opportunities warrant partnership on a global scale, a partnership to work in the United States as well as abroad.
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proposal deadline were complicated by the fact that both the proposal and the work would be done through a combination of U S private and public sector groups The "Team America" effort, as it was dubbed, resulted in much more than a document The undertaking showed that read or perceived differences and barriers between U S government agencies and private firms can be surmounted to meet shared goals In the case of the Three Gorges Project, where US involvement would have far-reaching erects for the nation and others, the accomplishment was admirable and one that can serve as a prototype for future cooperative efforts Another less favorable, but equally important, lesson came out of this exercise While the Chinese government accepted the proposal, the work was not pursued due to Jack of fin ancia] support from U S government and/or private industry sources As a result, proposed feasibility studies are now being done by a nation in which the private and public sectors cooperate to best advantage Canada The Three Gorges Project was conceived early in the 1900s by Dr Sun Yat-Sen in his "Plan for Industrialization of China " "It is the Jong-cherished wish for the Chinese to construct the Three Gorges Project Completion of the project wiR be of great significance to the industrialization of the country," wrote Sun, who is stir]
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Clark made a comrn~tment for the United States to aid China by defining concrete steps that could be taken to address technical and financial] issues.
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Coopers and L`ybrand Merrill Lynch Capital Markets The Morgan Bank Morrison Knudsen Corporation Stone andWebster Engineering Corporation The federal government's contribution came from services provided by the U.S. Department ofthe Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S.
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communication skills by offering constructive critiques as work progressed. Management books on the bestseller list talk about cases such as this that bring out the best in managers to build teams, integrate diverse talents, and manage disputes in pursuit of a firs t-ciass product.
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to be approximately $8 billion. In October 1985, the Can aclian government signed an agreement with the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power for joint participation in a feasibility study.
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best human resources can be melded for a variety of purposes, including technology transfer to help other nations achieve their goals, and enhancing the position of the Uniter] States in international competition.
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