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Effective Criterion for Equipment Management in Construction Industry

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Every construction projects requires different kinds of equipment and machineries designed for executing their respective construction tasks. Achieving efficiency and productivity from those equipment and machineries is vital for gaining profit in construction. Equipment management is very crucial in making profit out of construction projects as it varies from 5 to 30% of total cost of the construction project. It is challenging to select the appropriate equipment from the various available options. Improper maintenance of equipment results breakdown or failure which ends up with huge loss of capital and also affects progress of the project. In this paper, a vivid discussion has been done about two key critical factors for managing equipment and machineries i.e. criteria for selection, maintenance to improve productivity in construction. In equipment management practice, these criteria have significance impact on optimum equipment utilization, downtime reduction and improving production at minimum cost.

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    Dolasankar Sahu &  Mohibullah

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    Christy P. Gomez

  3. School of Civil Engineering, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar, India

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Sahu, D., Mohibullah (2022). Effective Criterion for Equipment Management in Construction Industry. In: Das, B.B., Gomez, C.P., Mohapatra, B.G. (eds) Recent Developments in Sustainable Infrastructure (ICRDSI-2020)—Structure and Construction Management. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 221. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8433-3_17

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