The Research Review of the Impact of Design to Construction Safety

Abstract

The constructability of design impacts the project construction process. Early researches categorized the constructability problems into two types, the construction-technique-associated and the project-target-associated. And furthermore, this paper proposes a new kind of constructability problem which associated with construction safety. Finally, it makes suggestions for research of the safety associated constructability.

Keywords

constructability / construction safety / prevention thought design

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Acknowledgements

This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51578144).

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