Mandatory Implementation Strategy of the Improvement of Existing Buildings in Taiwan

Abstract

As the buildings of Taiwan have been stepping towards the aging stage, the act of after-use maintenance of buildings gradually becomes a mainstream movement. After the serious fire of Welcome Restaurant happened in 1995, Taiwan government has been comprehensively implementing Public Safety Inspection Declaration System for the refuge facilities and the constructed facilities of buildings. Ever since the Chi-Chi Earthquake happened in 1999, the government forcibly and positively conducts mandatory inspection and renovation of the seismic resistance of public buildings in order to reinforce the public safety. Through on-the-spot survey, data analysis and review of local and foreign references, this study investigates the current implementation and the performance of the several mandatory and encouraging improvement systems positively executed in the buildings of Taiwan. The contents of this paper are divided into three parts: 1) Public safety inspection declaration; 2) Diagnosis, inspection and renovation of seismic resistance of buildings; 3) Improvement of obstacle-free facilities.

Influencers for Adoption of Robots in Indian Construction Industry

“…Table 1 gives the application of robots in different work areas and the geographical context of the studies. Robots are used to increase productivity, improve quality, save labour (Hsiao, 1994;Wu, 1996) and improve firm's image through cost reduction and enhancement of competencies (Wu, 1996). Robots are used in eleven broad areas of work as identified from extant literature.…”

“…Influencers such as tax reduction, investment reward system, availability of funds and subsidies on R&D expenditure (Wu, 1996), availability of an institute dedicated to robots (Koskela, 1992;Eng and Quaia, 2009), greater cooperation with international contractors (Hsiao, 1994;Sillars and Kangari, 1997), greater coordination of robots in design plan (Hsiao, 1994…”

“…To achieve this target, the construction industry needs to address its weaknesses such as shortage of labour (Wu, 1996;National skill Development Corporation, 2010), technological stagnancy, fragmentation, slow speed and high cost (Jones and Saad, 2003). The Construction sector is also labour intensive (Hsiao, 1994;Rajgor and Pitroda, 2013) and dangerous (Rajgor and Pitroda, 2013). Some of the weaknesses may be overcome by the use of robots.…”