| dc.description.abstract | Water and electricity projects are an important part of construction engineering. Good construction contractors should be selected in a prudent manner so as to ensure the construction quality, safety and durability. However, the market competition of water and electricity projects is fierce. To strike a balance between cost control, project quality, and reducing disputes in the construction, as well as to survive in the industry, and achieve sustainable business operations, have become key matters.
This study analyzes the water and electricity construction industry, it chooses a domestic water and electricity construction firm, Firm A, as the research object. This firm is the contractor of the water and electricity construction for a large supermarket in southern Taiwan. In this study, we discuss its management, planning and design of water and electricity, sub-contractor management, schedule management, the strategies and actions related to inspection, acceptance, maintenance and reinforcement. This study also explores its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, in efforts to identify the key factors of the firm’s success.
In this study, the qualitative case study method is utilized, and Firm A, a water and electricity construction firm in Chung-li region is selected as the research object. The data sources include secondary data collection and in-depth interviews with senior executives of the case firm. Through collection, collation, and analysis of data, the following conclusions are reached: 1. Paying attention to both construction quality and cost control is the most important issue of the water and electricity construction firm. 2. The interfaces between construction engineering and water and electricity construction must be arranged in an integrated manner. 3. The firm must pay attention to self-check to ensure construction quality and understand deficiencies so as to promptly improve. There are three research recommendations: 1. Pay attention to the education and training of water and electricity technicians and improve their workmanship. 2. It is suggested that the government should recognize its role in the technical improvement and inheritance of water and electricity firms. 3. The basic-level technicians have been replaced by foreign migrant workers, leading to a large gap of talents, and a long-term perspective is recommended in this regard. There are there suggestions for future research directions: 1. Carry out quantitative analysis; 2. Expand the scope of research; 3. Study the dynamics of industrial development. | en_US |