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Abediniangerabi, B, Shahandashti, S M, Ahmadi, N and Ashuri, B (2017) Empirical Investigation of Temporal Association between Architecture Billings Index and Construction Spending Using Time-Series Methods. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Barbachyn, S M, Devine, R D, Thrall, A P and Kurama, Y C (2017) Economic Evaluation of High-Strength Materials in Stocky Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
D’Onofrio, R M (2017) CPM Scheduling: A 60-Year History. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Gurmu, A T and Aibinu, A A (2017) Construction Equipment Management Practices for Improving Labor Productivity in Multistory Building Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Hanna, A S and Iskandar, K A (2017) Quantifying and Modeling the Cumulative Impact of Change Orders. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Hasanzadeh, S, Esmaeili, B and Dodd, M D (2017) Impact of Construction Workers’ Hazard Identification Skills on Their Visual Attention. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Hyari, K H, Shatarat, N and Khalafallah, A (2017) Handling Risks of Quantity Variations in Unit-Price Contracts. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Kamardeen, I and Sunindijo, R Y (2017) Personal Characteristics Moderate Work Stress in Construction Professionals. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Mani, N, Kisi, K P, Rojas, E M and Foster, E T (2017) Estimating Construction Labor Productivity Frontier: Pilot Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Park, J, Cai, H, Dunston, P S and Ghasemkhani, H (2017) Database-Supported and Web-Based Visualization for Daily 4D BIM. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Sunindijo, R Y and Kamardeen, I (2017) Work Stress Is a Threat to Gender Diversity in the Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Tuchman, J L (2017) Why Journalism Matters. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
Umer, W, Li, H, Szeto, G P Y and Wong, A Y L (2017) Low-Cost Ergonomic Intervention for Mitigating Physical and Subjective Discomfort during Manual Rebar Tying. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: Construction ergonomics; Rebar tying; Occupational safety and health; Biomechanical evaluation; Labor and personnel issues;
- ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001383
- Abstract:
The construction industry around the globe is facing a massive predicament of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), largely attributed to the excessive physical exertion at worksites. Whereas ergonomic interventions are suggested to be an effective approach to mitigate such routine exertion, these ergonomic interventions should be task specific because of the unique characteristics of each trade (such as rebar work; a construction trade with a high prevalence rate of MSDs). Despite numerous potential interventions available for rebar workers, none of them has been widely adopted, especially in the Asian market. After considering various reasons impeding their broad usage, the authors coined a simple ergonomic solution by attaching a low height domestic stool to the pants of rebar workers. This would allow them to sit and work instead of squatting, which is the most preferred posture in Asian cultures for working at ground level. The novel intervention was tested against squatting for various physical outcomes (i.e., muscle activity, neuromuscular fatigue, trunk kinematics and lower extremity blood circulation) and self-perceived discomfort, using a simulated rebar tying task in a laboratory. These findings demonstrate that the intervention has beneficial effects on both physical and subjective outcomes, and has a great potential in reducing work-related MSDs among Asian rebar workers. Additionally, the current study highlights that ergonomic interventions in the construction industry should be derived based on both the characteristics of specific construction trades and culture of workers.
Zhang, Y, Minchin, R E and Agdas, D (2017) Forecasting Completed Cost of Highway Construction Projects Using LASSO Regularized Regression. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143(10).