Analysis of the Impact of Building Shape on Safety Management Cost

Bumjin Han, Youngju Na and Seunghyun Son ()
Additional contact information
Bumjin Han: Department of Architectural Engineering, Daejin University, Pocheon-si 11159, Korea
Youngju Na: Department of Architectural Engineering, U1 University, Yeongdong-gun 29131, Korea
Seunghyun Son: Department of Architectural Engineering, Mokpo National University, Muan-gun 58554, Korea

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-11

Abstract: Even if a building has the same building area or number of floors, the effect on construction safety varies depending on the building shape, and thus, safety management cost (SMC) should be calculated differently. If the effect of the building shape on the SMC is clearly analyzed and reflected, a reasonable SMC could be calculated. This study analyzes building shape’s impact on SMC, including apartment buildings’ impact. Following the data collection from 21 projects for this study, an analysis was conducted using the independent variables of the building perimeter (BP), building floor area (BA), and the building shape factor (BSF), and the dependent variable of SMC. As a result of analyzing the correlation between the three main factors and SMC, it was found that the BP, BSF, and BA have a very strong positive Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.876, 0.801, and 0.792, respectively. In the future, the results of this study can be used as supporting data for improving the safety management cost-related system and will develop into a more reliable model through continuous data accumulation and utility verification.

Keywords: building shape; building perimeter; building floor area; building shape factor; safety management cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/21/14171/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/21/14171/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:21:p:14171-:d:958168

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().