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There are three fundamental elements for human’s survival: sun, air, and water. In particular, water-supply engineering provides the solution to the problems of residential and industrial water usage. To cater to the public’s desperate need of water, water-supply engineering often has to move the deadline of projects forward instead of completing projects as originally planned. Hence, how to maintain “construction safety, quality, and progress” while expediting engineering projects, became a crucial issue. Besides timely completing water-supply construction to support domestic policy, Taiwan''s rainy seasons and Typhoons, government''s annual engineering efficiency requirement of at least 90%, and inflation and deflation that change the cost of engineering, all led to the need of expediting of water-supply construction. The management of such shortening activity within water-supply engineering projects is the main topic of this paper. This paper first explores the “cause” of the need for shortening activity within water-supply engineering project, such as the concern of delaying completion date for construction, domestic policy need, inflation and deflation, change in weather, and management of labour and machinery. Then this paper discusses, based on practical experiences, “the method of engineering project management,” which includes a determination to succeed along with the assertive attitude, preparation of additional construction projects prior to daily work, practicality analysis, map out control points, and integrating scheduling of materials, labors, and machineries with construction schedule. This paper also discusses “the method of shortening engineering project activity.” This method includes using anchors to substitute the standard hooks in steel beams, employing non-removal formwork, utilizing portal frame in retaining wall facilities, substituting rail piles for steel ring flanges in advancing construction shaft, building work platform, self-compacting concrete (SCC), ditches, in order to refill controlled low strength materials (CLSM), and establish customer service center, etc. Secondly, this paper examines construction safety management, quality management, and progress management while shortening water-supply engineering project. Shortening activity within water-supply engineering project means speeding up the project, which in turn means increasing pressure. Construction needs to be performed by “people.” Hence, both construction managers and labors need to adequately manage their emotions. In addition, Taiwan''s rainy seasons and Typhoons greatly affect engineering project. In other words, in order to smooth the engineering project process, “the management of emotion” and “risk management” while shortening engineering activity are important issues in this research, too. Finally, this paper will analyze and validate the ongoing construction project 「Booster Pump Station of the Xin 5th Road Construction」 which commenced on July 29, 2009. The paper will also discuss the different stages of the project, and respectively review the planning stage, the designing stage, the purchase stage, and constructing phase as well as provide research conclusion and advice.
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