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Abstract: During the past 15 years international competition in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) markets has increased significantly. The Office of Technology Assessment published a report in 1986 that addressed ...

Abstract: The current methods of estimating the excavation volume for a rectangular pit use excavation depth measurements at lattice points of a grid formed by marking off each of the

Abstract: The challenges of public health protection, natural environment protection, and preservation of aesthetics are changing faster for cold regions than for more temperate regions. The impact of the improved communications ...

Abstract: This paper provides insight into how and why construction has developed as a research based discipline over the past 50 years. The writer presents anecdotal information about certain critical events which played a role in ...

Abstract: The writer describes a personal view regarding construction research and the direction he believes the industry should head in order to continue to maintain a strong competitive position internationally and in the United ...

Abstract: The monthly number of forest fires in Georgia from 1951 to 1958 is compared with the monthly mean values of weather elements to determine the relationship of fire danger severity to one or more of these elements. Although ...

Abstract: Time series control charts are popular methods for statistical process control of autocorrelated processes. In order to implement these methods, however, a time series model of the process is ...