Abstract: Contractors add significant premiums, on the order of 3%, to their bids when they have a low need for work or projects have high risk. An empirical study of the effect of need‐for‐work and project risk on contractor bid ...

Abstract: A new form of a capillary potential/temperature formulation of heat and mass transfer in unsaturated soil is presented. Moisture transfer in both the vapor and liquid phases and heat transfer by means of conduction and ...