Rapp, R R and Pan, J (2010) Disaster restoration professional body of knowledge. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 6(3), pp. 202-218. ISSN 1557-8771
Abstract
Companies performing building disaster restoration services wish to position themselves to continue to create substantial value for their clients. Doing so demands that restoration professionals be well educated in pertinent subject matter. Professional certification procedures commonly examine the pertinent subject matter that a professional should know. The Restoration Industry Association (RIA) created the Certified Restorer® (CR) credential to meet this need in the industry that the organization serves. To help ensure that their certification process examines the correct topics, the RIA partnered with Purdue University to survey industry members for their opinions about the importance of managerial and technical disaster restoration subjects. The 275 respondents rated these as the three most important of 29 subjects: safety and health; project cost estimating and control; and project organizational structure. Besides the importance of each topic, statistical analysis showed that professional certification type was the characteristic most frequently associated with significant differences in ratings of subject importance (α=0.10 level).
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | disaster restoration; professional body of knowledge; reconstruction |
| Index terms: | survey, estimating, project organizational structure, project cost, statistical analysis, certification, restoration, disaster restoration, body of knowledge, reconstruction |
| Subjects: | environmental hazards, building construction, economics, data science, knowledge management, administrative processes, data collection methods, financial and cost management, organizational analysis, renovation and retrofit |
| Topics: | Contract Administration, Information Management, Cost Management, Research Practice, Engineering Principles, Sustainability, Organizational Design |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCEA |
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