SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builders are enhancing on-site management and establishing work standards to better prepare for the scorching summer heat. Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. has implemented a policy that requires field workers to take regular rest breaks and halt outdoor work when the perceived temperature exceeds 35 degrees Celsius. [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will manage the entire process of construction projects by recording videos of construction sites, a first in South Korea. To begin, 74 construction sites each with construction cost of more than 10 billion won will be recorded on a trial basis for one [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 55 workers were killed at construction sites in the first quarter of this year, the land ministry said Wednesday, as the country began enforcing a new law that calls for the punishment of company chiefs for serious workplace disasters. Of the 55 victims, 14 were affiliated [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Expressway Corp., which manages South Korea’s highways across the nation, said Thursday it had introduced a “safety signal light” system in which it assesses the safety level of highway construction sites once a month and visualizes the result by color. The new system was introduced last month [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI)-based safety management system will be introduced at construction sites in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Digital Foundation announced Thursday the launch of a trial project for introducing AI-based safety solutions at private construction sites in the city. The AI system conducts [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major builder in South Korea, said Tuesday that it had developed an automatic monitoring system to manage the status of temporary structures and ground conditions at construction sites in real-time to prevent collapses. Currently, temporary structures at construction sites go through manual instrumentation [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Land and Housing Corp. (LH) has established a new system that uses drones to enhance the efficiency in checking and measuring construction sites and scrutinizing land compensation. The state housing developer announced that it has been using drones at construction sites since 2018 and recently completed the [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major South Korean builder, is set to introduce construction robotics technology using unmanned robots for its construction sites. The company recently held a demonstration ceremony for its construction robotics technology at its research center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. During the demonstration ceremony, a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) robots at construction sites, a new robot that can perform concrete plastering work on its own has been developed. Hyundai Engineering Co., a plant engineering affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, announced on Wednesday that it had developed the nation’s first AI [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A major South Korean builder plans to make use of artificial intelligence (AI) industrial robots at its construction sites. Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. plans to test articulated industrial robots at construction sites with the aim to cover 20 percent of the work done at construction sites by 2026. [...]