Annotated Bibliography on Modern Construction Projects at WSU

This annotated bibliography examines modern construction projects, with a focus on the High Line Building as a case study. It delves into various aspects, including pre-construction effectiveness, on-site construction effectiveness, peer benchmarking, and the impact of modern construction contracts. The bibliography includes a range of sources, such as books and journal articles, that address themes like sustainable building design, construction management, quality control, and the use of modern methods of construction. The student explores topics like resource efficiency, productivity, cost-effectiveness, and the integration of technology in construction processes. The bibliography highlights the importance of sustainability, innovative building practices, and the application of modern technologies to improve efficiency and outcomes in construction projects. The student also discusses the critical role of peer benchmarking and modern contracts in fostering collaboration and successful project completion.

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MODERN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: HIGH LINE BUILDING
Introduction
An enclosed relative construction established on a land. It’s used for wide various activities such
as entertaining, commercial purposes and for living. Manufacturing.
High Line is a building that is situated or located about two kilometers along the linear park of
the greenway across the former New York railroad in Manhattan. The building was constructed
on a disserted overpass section in New York Central Railroad line.
The design of the building was brought about by the cooperation between the following
architects: James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Oudolf. The designers
and the architects of the high line focused their inspirations in the reuse and recycling of
resources by building the high line on a disserted section of land and as well enhancing creation
something a new out of nothing.
The high line building enhances environmental sustainability through the resource efficiency and
reuse throughout the building life cycle from the sitting design to maintenance and operational
affectivity.
High line building ensures cost affectivity while enhancing productivity. This is facilitated by the
reuse of resources from design planning, construction of the building to operational
maintenances.
Achieving smarter, better and cheaper
For a building to be smarter, better and cheaper they should use modern information technology
during their operations to connect different systems, which generally operates independently, the
connection ensures that the systems can share information to optimize the overall building

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performance. The High Line Building had the following features to ensure that it was smarter,
cheaper and better;
 Robust wireless infrastructure
 Assessing smart building device for retrofit
 Choosing future-proof device and technology investments
Pre-construction effectiveness
All the initial stages involved in the building project before the real construction works starts are
referred to as pre-construction activities.
During the primary stages of planning on High Line project, the client closely worked with the
design team and the general contractor. Detailed drawings were developed, schedules were
drawn and manpower and budgets projections were carried out before the construction work
began. At these stages, regular communication took place between the main team and other
consultants.
The team outlined the project, formulated budget estimates that met the real budget, classified
possible construction issues and solutions and finally determined the most effective way to use
money and other resources in the project.
All of the above actions and stages describe pre-construction effectiveness in a building project.
On-site construction effectiveness
On-site construction refers to the activities that are supposed to be finalized on the project. They
include maintenances and management of property. Onsite construction process is a chain of

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various duties and responsibilities that should be followed with great accuracy so that the project
is carried out in relation to the plan.
For the High Line project to have succeeded there was a heavy-duty association between the
office and the job site.
Why peer benchmarking is critical
Peer benchmarking is the process which allows different organizations/firms to compare
themselves against one another. Peer benchmarking is very critical during the construction of this
project since it allowed different parties of the project team to understand;
i. construction management has evaluation.
ii. How management of project is different from one region to another
iii. The contracting variations within the construction management which can be leveraged
by the project clients.
iv. The current contracting climate
Modern construction contracts
A wide variety of modern techniques of construction methods and products have been created
which have completely changes the behavior of the entire construction industry from what it was
before. During the construction of the High Line building, the modern contracts were found to
retain the key features more conducive to encouraging teeming up of the construction team i.e.
the engineers, tradesmen, architects and different equipment and countless infrastructure features
which allowed successful completion of the project.

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baird, G., 2012. Mumovic, D., 2014. A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and
Engineering: An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance. 3rd
ed. Chicago: Earthscan.. 3rd ed. Paris: Routledge.
To enhance resource affectivity, productivity and sustainability of a building design is essential
factor to consider. To overcoming the cost effective of the construction design, sustainability of
the design is valuated.
Berardi, U., 2011. Moving to Sustainable Buildings:: Paths to Adopt Green Innovations in
Developed Countries. 3rd ed. London: Walter de Gruyter.
The concepts of sustainable construction of buildings encompasses on green integrated systems
of which ensures green sustainability to the environment.
Hughes, W., Champion, R. & Murdoch, J., 2014. Construction Contracts: Law and
Management. 2nd ed. Texas: Routledge.
To think critically on construction management research, guidelines on modern building and
construction contract has been widely discussed here.
This book has provided learners with a reference on modern construction contracts which
include procurement, tendering and dispute settlement development.
Lychgate Projects, NHBC Foundation Staff, 2018. Modern Methods of Construction: Views
from the Industry. 3rd ed. Chicago: Construction Research Communications Limited.
In building industry, some few quality as a chore. That is why many clients now need evidence
of quality work. This has resulted into doing more research on quality work in building and

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construction projects. Research in construction work is a road map for a successive construction
of modern sustainable buildings.
Mumovic, D., 2014. A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering: An
Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance. 3rd ed. Chicago:
Earthscan.
This book initiates and promotes construction of sustainable and environmentally friendly
buildings. The design modular on sustainable buildings is proposed to aid in the integration of
components.
Pearce, A., Ahn, Y. H. & HanmiGlobal Co, L., 2015. Sustainable Buildings and
Infrastructure: Paths to the Future. 4th ed. Texas: Routledge.
This article evaluates the essentiality of ensuring sustainable productivity in a built building
constructions and designs.
Rumane, A. R., 2018. Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects. 3rd ed. London:
CRC Press.
During design and construction processes, handling a multi-layered insubstantial fungible
construction as quality is sometimes hard for all the involved parties. Quality, according to the
architect, is an attractive permanent design. To the builder, it simply means a logical document
which, when worked upon, can lead to an attractive, well-made construction.
Sardroud & Majrouhi, J., 2016. Automated Management of Construction Projects. 3rd ed.
Chicago: Majrouhi Sardroud.

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Construction projects usually happen in a dynamic environment under several phases until they
are completed. In the process, projects suffer from problems of quality, cost over-runs and also
delays due to cases of inaccuracy and real-time information. As a result, modern construction
management need real time and information that is accurate that should be shared amongst all
the parties involved.
This book has given a new tactic for automating the resource management task in construction
and integrating the latest technologies.
Shin, S., 2016. sustainable buildings. International Journal of Sustainable Building
Technology and Urban Development, 7(3-4), p. 196.
The Author of this journal highlight different sustainable practices practiced in different parts of
the world. This ranges from the design concepts, selection of construction materials, construction
methods used and the post occupancy management of the building.

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