This paper summarizes a review of the literature on ergonomics relevant to labor-intensive civil construction techniques. It confines itself mainly to the energy aspects of physiological cost. Ergonomics may be of use in two main ways in the study of construction work, viz. productivity may be improved by comparison of the physiological loads of alternative methods and prediction of the feeasibility of new techniques should also be possible. Ergonomics...
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1975/08/31
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Documento de trabajo
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UNN297
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2017/12/17
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World Bank study of the substitution of labor and equipment in civil construction : a literature review of the ergonomics of labor - intensive civil construction
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metabolic rate