La responsabilité du fait des dommages de travaux publics est habituellement considérée comme une hypothèse originale de responsabilité. Son ancienneté, sa structure et les règles qui la composent l’éloigneraient des droits administratif et civil de la responsabilité. L’étude de la matière des travaux publics montre toutefois qu’à deux époques différentes, l’isolement de ces règles doit être relativisé. Historiquement, elles ont été fondatrices de la responsabilité administrative. En tant que toute première hypothèse de responsabilité, les dommages de travaux publics ont constitué un véritable prélude à son principe, et partant, ont détenu un rôle précurseur. Ils ont en outre formé la matrice des régimes et des conditions de la responsabilité administrative. Actuellement, l’originalité de certaines règles propres à la matière des travaux publics est en déclin. Elle est d’abord en voie de réduction, car malgré la persistance du particularisme attaché à la classification des dommages de travaux publics, la spécificité de ses règles techniques est de plus en plus atténuée. Elle est ensuite en voie de disparition, au regard de son éviction par d’autres règles situées en dehors du droit commun de la responsabilité administrative, voire de son effacement à la comparaison avec le droit civil. L’originalité de la responsabilité du fait des dommages de travaux publics tend ainsi à devenir progressivement un vestige du passé. / Public liability for wrongs caused by public works is usually understood as an original and peculiar case of liability. Its existence, its structure and the rules applied to it made it different from classical administrative accountability or civil liability. Nevertheless, the study of the topic shows that at two different times such an assessment should have been more balanced. From an historic perspective, rules for public liability in the context of wrongs caused by public works are the foundation of French administrative accountability. Rules for public works had the leading role in the development of administrative accountability and were the mould for the doctrines and principles of administrative responsibility. Currently, the peculiarity of some rules applied to public works are in decline. Firstly, despite the persistence and the use of a classification specific to public liability in the context of public works, the particularity of its rules is lessened. Secondly, this peculiarity is endangered as other rules for liability coming from administrative law or civil law are preferred to its application. Thus, the originality of the public liability for wrongs caused by public works seems to become a thing of the past.

The Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) is a government programme targeted at unemployed individuals. Public entities at the national, provincial and municipal level implement the EPWP. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM) is one of the entities implementing the EPWP at the local level. This study investigated the implementation of the EPWP within the CTMM with a view to understand the current implementation approach. The CTMM has been unable to achieve their EPWP annual targets since 2009. The CTMM experienced the lack of attaining targets mainly in relation to persons with disabilities (2%), and indigents (50%). Other challenges include the lack of training EPWP participants in specialized skills; the unsustainable nature of the EPWP projects; and un-approval of the draft EPWP policy. This study proposes interventions with regard to the coordination of the EPWP, improved monitoring of projects, training, indigent criteria, and approval of the EPWP policy within the CTMM. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)

The Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) is a government programme targeted at unemployed individuals. Public entities at the national, provincial and municipal level implement the EPWP. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM) is one of the entities implementing the EPWP at the local level. This study investigated the implementation of the EPWP within the CTMM with a view to understand the current implementation approach. The CTMM has been unable to achieve their EPWP annual targets since 2009. The CTMM experienced the lack of attaining targets mainly in relation to persons with disabilities (2%), and indigents (50%). Other challenges include the lack of training EPWP participants in specialized skills; the unsustainable nature of the EPWP projects; and un-approval of the draft EPWP policy. This study proposes interventions with regard to the coordination of the EPWP, improved monitoring of projects, training, indigent criteria, and approval of the EPWP policy within the CTMM. / Development Studies / M. A. (Development Studies)

The Commission for making the river Vltava and the river Labe in Bohemia navigable was founded in 1896 on the basis of a decree of the ministry of interior as the first water management office to be systematically engaged in making Czech rivers navigable by the canalization method. The Commission was headed by the vice-regent of the Kingdom of Bohemia to whom the members of state's and country's curia were subordinate. The executive section was represented by the central office, composed of the technical and administrative departments. Its activities were financed by two thirds by the Austrian state, one third was paid from the Czech country's treasury. After the establishment of the independent Czechoslovak republic, both curias were dissolved and the Commission was put under the control of the ministry of public works. The president of the country's political administration was appointed as the head of the Commission. The competence of the Commission was step by step extended from the initially entrusted task of making the river Vltava and the river Labe in the division Prague - Ústí nad Labem navigable also to making the river Vltava in Prague navigable as well as to the adaptation of the Holešovice port in Prague to a modern trade port and to drawing up studies on the utilization of water...

O presente estudo analisa a rede de fóruns modulares produzidos pelo extinto Departamento de Obras Públicas do Estado de São Paulo - DOP - entre os anos de 1969 e 1975. Tem como objetivo avaliar se os projetos padronizados (ou normatizados), F, F1, F2 e F3, respondiam aos parâmetros convencionais de produção do Departamento, ou se existiu uma aproximação programática com os ideários da arquitetura moderna, envolvendo, quer do ponto de vista da sua dimensão social, quer da sua componente estética, a racionalização da produção e/ou a industrialização da construção, solicitando a modulação de todos seus elementos e componentes - constituindo-se, assim, como possibilidade da ampliação quantitativa de um bem, tal como a habitação, ou de uma rede de serviços: educação, saúde e, no caso específico, o acesso ao judiciário. Nesse sentido, a análise pondera sobre a continuidade da produção de fóruns de justiça, a partir do Plano de Ação Carvalho Pinto - PAGE, (1959-1963), período no qual os edifícios públicos foram projetados por arquitetos, em boa parte, comprometidos com a arquitetura moderna em São Paulo. O mesmo período tornou-se significativo para a produção moderna no Estado e, ao mesmo tempo, renovou-se a produção dos edifícios públicos do judiciário. Por último, nota-se que o DOP teve sua estrutura operacional e administrativa reformulada sob a orientação da equipe técnica do Governo do Estado. / The present study analyzes the network of modular forums produced by the former Department of Public Works of the São Paulos State - DOP -between the years 1969 and 1975. Assessing the extent to which these standardized designs (or normalized) \'F, F1, F1, F2 e F3\' responded to conventional parameters of the production department, in implementation of a network of services: education, health, and, in this case, access to justice, with some programmatic approach with the ideals of modern architecture, involving the social dimension , the aesthetic component, the standardization of projects, not considering the rationalization of production and/or the industrialization of construction. Thus, the analysis sticks to the continuities and ruptures of the production of Forums from Plano de Ação Carvalho Pinto - PAGE -(1959/1963), time in which public buildings were designed by architects largely committed to modern architecture in São Paulo, and that constituted a significant moment of modern production in the state, while the building of public buildings of the judiciary section was renewed and the DOP had its operational and management structure reformulated under the guidance of the technical staff of the State Government.

O presente estudo analisa a rede de fóruns modulares produzidos pelo extinto Departamento de Obras Públicas do Estado de São Paulo - DOP - entre os anos de 1969 e 1975. Tem como objetivo avaliar se os projetos padronizados (ou normatizados), F, F1, F2 e F3, respondiam aos parâmetros convencionais de produção do Departamento, ou se existiu uma aproximação programática com os ideários da arquitetura moderna, envolvendo, quer do ponto de vista da sua dimensão social, quer da sua componente estética, a racionalização da produção e/ou a industrialização da construção, solicitando a modulação de todos seus elementos e componentes - constituindo-se, assim, como possibilidade da ampliação quantitativa de um bem, tal como a habitação, ou de uma rede de serviços: educação, saúde e, no caso específico, o acesso ao judiciário. Nesse sentido, a análise pondera sobre a continuidade da produção de fóruns de justiça, a partir do Plano de Ação Carvalho Pinto - PAGE, (1959-1963), período no qual os edifícios públicos foram projetados por arquitetos, em boa parte, comprometidos com a arquitetura moderna em São Paulo. O mesmo período tornou-se significativo para a produção moderna no Estado e, ao mesmo tempo, renovou-se a produção dos edifícios públicos do judiciário. Por último, nota-se que o DOP teve sua estrutura operacional e administrativa reformulada sob a orientação da equipe técnica do Governo do Estado. / The present study analyzes the network of modular forums produced by the former Department of Public Works of the São Paulos State - DOP -between the years 1969 and 1975. Assessing the extent to which these standardized designs (or normalized) \'F, F1, F1, F2 e F3\' responded to conventional parameters of the production department, in implementation of a network of services: education, health, and, in this case, access to justice, with some programmatic approach with the ideals of modern architecture, involving the social dimension , the aesthetic component, the standardization of projects, not considering the rationalization of production and/or the industrialization of construction. Thus, the analysis sticks to the continuities and ruptures of the production of Forums from Plano de Ação Carvalho Pinto - PAGE -(1959/1963), time in which public buildings were designed by architects largely committed to modern architecture in São Paulo, and that constituted a significant moment of modern production in the state, while the building of public buildings of the judiciary section was renewed and the DOP had its operational and management structure reformulated under the guidance of the technical staff of the State Government.

Water distribution systems, electrical power transmission systems, and other civil infrastructure systems are essential to the smooth and stable operation of regional economies. Since the functions of such infrastructure systems often are inter-dependent, the systems sometimes suffer unforeseen functional disruptions. For example, the widespread power outage due to the malfunction of an electric power substation, which occurred in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada in August 2003, interrupted the supply of water to several communities, leading to inconvenience and economic losses. The sequence of such failures leading to widespread outages is referred to as a cascading failure. Assessing the vulnerability of communities to natural and man-made hazards should take the possibility of such failures into account. In seismic risk assessment, the risk to a facility or a building is generally specified by one of two basic approaches: through a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) and a stipulated scenario earthquake (SE). A PSHA has been widely accepted as a basis for design and evaluation of individual buildings, bridges and other facilities. However, the vulnerability assessment of distributed infrastructure facilities requires a model of spatial intensity of earthquake ground motion. Since the ground motions from a PSHA represent an aggregation of earthquakes, they cannot model the spatial variation in intensity. On the other hand, when a SE-based analysis is used, the spatial correlation of seismic intensities must be properly evaluated. This study presents a new methodology for evaluating the functionality of an infrastructure system situated in a region of moderate seismicity considering functional interactions among the systems in the network, cascading failure, and spatial correlation of ground motion. The functional interactions among facilities in the systems are modeled by fault trees, and the impact of cascading failures on serviceability of a networked system is computed by a procedure from the field of operations research known as a shortest path algorithm. The upper and lower bound solutions to spatial correlation of seismic intensities over a region are obtained.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:28:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1080452 bytes, checksum: db6124f7a0ffaa0cda654d1352db934e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Most studies dealing with the issue of managing architectural and engineering have as its object of study the project management and private works of architecture. The public sector, such as academic institutions, have an important role in construction, but it is rarely analyzed in the work area. With the expansion of their campi, it has been observed most of the projects developed in the IFES have been outsourced. One reason for this is the fact that institutions often do not have a project team trained, prepared and structured enough to answer the demands of project. Moreover, it is observed that the units trying to develop their projects have had recurring management problems that embrace throughout the design process to work. It is associated with the increasing demand of the construction supply chain to adopt methodologies for the development of sustainable buildings. In view of the above facts, the objective of this research is to identify the factors conditions and procedures for proposing a model for the structuring of a Project Management Office (PMO) driven to sustainable projects in IFES. For this, we attempted to through a literature review and survey of multiple mini‐cases basis for the proposal of three reference models for the structure and operation of PMO. As a main result, it is concluded that the adoption of a systemic vision and understanding of the building design process from product life cycle are essential for the development of such projects. / A maioria dos trabalhos que tratam da questão da gestão de projetos de arquitetura e engenharia tem como objeto de estudo a gestão de projetos e obras de arquitetura privadas. O setor público, como por exemplo, as instituições universitárias, tem importante papel na construção civil, mas raramente é analisada pelos trabalhos na área. Com a expansão dos seus campi, tem‐se observado que a maioria do projetos de AEC desenvolvidos nas IFES tem sido terceirizados. Uma das razões para isso é o fato de que essas instituições muitas vezes não possuem uma equipe de projetos treinada e preparada, e com estrutura suficiente para atender as demandas de projetos. Além disso, observa‐ se que as unidades que tentam desenvolver seus projetos têm tido problemas recorrentes de gestão, que perpassam por todo o processo de projeto até a obra. Associa‐se a isso ainda, a crescente demanda da cadeia produtiva da construção em adotar metodologias para o desenvolvimento de construções sustentáveis. Em virtude dos fatos mencionados, o objetivo da presente pesquisa é identificar os fatores, requisitos e procedimentos para propor um modelo para a estruturação de um Escritório de Gerenciamento de Projetos (EGP) direcionado a projetos de AEC sustentáveis em IFES. Para isso, buscou‐se através de pesquisa bibliográfica e de levantamentos de múltiplos minicasos embasamento para a proposição de três modelos referenciais para a estruturação e operação do EGP. Como principal resultado, conclui‐se que a adoção da visão sistêmica e do entendimento do processo de projeto de edificações a partir do ciclo de vida do produto são essenciais para o desenvolvimento de projetos dessa natureza.

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The Labour Intensive Public Work (LIPW) programme under the Ghana Social Opportunity Project (GSOP), is a social protection programme initiated by the Government of Ghana, to offer jobs and income earning opportunities to some targeted rural residents, especially the youth, through the application of labour intensive technology in the construction of community infrastructure that has the potential of generating secondary employment. This is a mixed method study sought to provide an account on the Ghanian version of LIPW programmes. The study assessed and identified the challenges facing the programme implementation from beneficiary and implementers’ perspective in order to set the platform for an interactive feedback between project implementers and community members for the smooth implementation of future LIPW programmes. The study also assessed the impact of the programme on poverty and migration among the youth in Ghana. In identifying the challenges facing the programme from implementers’ perspective, 15 key project implementers were interviewed. An interview guide and a questionnaire were also developed to collect data from 500 beneficiaries of the programme to know their challenges. In assessing the impact of the programme on migration among the youth, questionnaires were administered to 239 households in beneficiary communities and 189 households from non-beneficiary communities of the LIPW programme. Finally, data was collected from 90 youth who benefited from the programme and 90 youth who did not benefit from the programme to compare and determine the extent to which the programme has contributed in reducing poverty among the youth. The study revealed that the key challenge facing the programme implementation from the implementers’ perspective is capacity problem involving, inadequacy of staff to implement the programme at the district level, frequent breakdown of vehicles for monitoring, and delays in the release of funds for commencement of project. Beneficiaries of the programme also indicated that they were not satisfied with the amount of money they were receiving as wage for their labour. They were also unhappy with the delays in payment of their wages and the period of engagement in the programme. The study found out that the LIPW programme under the GSOP has not contributed in reducing migration among the youth. However, the programme has contributed to reducing poverty among the youth. The study therefore recommends that capacity gap analysis conducted before project initiation should include adequacy of staff and logistics to cater for any deficiency. It is strongly recommended that beneficiaries of the programme should be consulted in setting the wage rate to avoid resentment provoking misunderstanding between beneficiaries and project implementers. The study further recommended that the government should scale up the programme to cover more communities in order to reduce poverty among the youth in Ghana. Finally, the study proposed a new model for LIPW for the youth known as ‘LIPW +3Cs’. This model incorporates three Cs, that is ‘C’ompetence’, ‘C’onnections’ and ‘C’haracter’ into LIPW programmes. ‘LIPW +3Cs’ will not only train youth to secure jobs after the programme (Competence) but will assist them to establish a network among themselves and other supporting institutions (Connections). Issues of character which encompases a sense of right and wrong will also be inculcated in the youth to assist them to function effectively in the society (Character). / Adult Basic Education (ABET) / D. Phil. (Adult Education and Youth Development)