Abstract: Public–private partnership (PPP) has become the most popular contract agreement form for infrastructure projects. To fully enjoy the benefits of PPP contracting, the value of the concession price should be carefully ...

Abstract: Recent studies indicate that issues in compliance with building energy codes (BEC) are closely linked to practitioner’s varying compliance behavior, which jeopardizes BEC’s effectiveness and low-carbon target. Compliance ...

Abstract: Building practitioners often fail to achieve beyond-compliance with residential energy performance standards, jeopardizing industry sustainability. Governments increasingly employ policies to drive behavior change toward ...

Abstract: With the rapidly increasing requirements of bridge maintenance and the limited budget available for this maintenance, the cost optimization of long-term maintenance strategy considering the network-level bridge system under ...

Abstract: On-site collision tests of full-scale concrete barriers are an important method to understand what happens to concrete barriers when vehicles collide with them. However, such tests require both time and money, so modeling ...

Abstract: Reliable prediction of construction prices is essential for the construction industry because price variation can affect the decisions of construction contractors, property investors, and related financial institutions. ...

Abstract: Building information modeling (BIM) is a pivotal technology to realizing the digital transformation of the construction industry. Lack of BIM professionals, however, is one of the reasons the application of BIM technology ...

Abstract: In existing bridge management systems, the information on one stage in the life cycle of a bridge is not efficiently used in other stages, which results in much waste in time and effort. In this paper, a new type of bridge ...

Abstract: The concession period is a critical contractual parameters for public-private partnership (PPP) projects whose value can significantly influence the financial interests of project participants. However, it has become a ...