Abstract: Knowledge management initiatives have proliferated in recent years because of the desire to have employees share their knowledge throughout the organization. However, in practice, many of these initiatives fail to achieve ...

Abstract: This study seeks to understand how housing safety perceptions have changed after a specific hazard event: the 2019–2020 earthquakes affecting the US Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. The research team conducted and qualitatively ...

Abstract: Construction organizations seek to facilitate expertise identification so that employees can easily find solutions to problems they do not know how to solve on their own. A person is identified and labeled as an expert ...

Abstract: There is a national need for an increased quantity of engineers. In addition to pure quantity, there are calls for a more diverse engineering population capable of addressing increasingly complex and global future challenges. ...

Abstract: To succeed internationally, multinational, project-based organizations in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry need to both adapt to local environments and integrate knowledge and processes across ...

Abstract: Engineers that are actively engaged with both the social and technical dimensions of engineering work—socially engaged engineers—offer diversity in skill sets, values, and characteristics to the engineering workforce. This ...

Abstract: Construction engineering and management experts asserted in the 1980s that computer-based information and communication technologies (ICTs) would grow quickly to increase the efficiency of communications in the architecture, ...

Abstract: On-site sanitation systems experience a high failure rate with resulting environmental and public health implications. In the United States alone, the EPA estimates that 10% of the 26 million homes served by on-site systems ...

Abstract: It is common for recovery policies to be crafted following disasters, such as the relocation of exposed populations, but it is rare for policy intent to be fully realized. Although critiques center on failed outcomes, there ...