Abstract: Electric power is a critical commodity of the modern world where demand for electricity has been increasing significantly in the last decades, and it is expected to keep increasing in the future. Several socioeconomic ...

Abstract: Many scholars from multiple professional and academic disciplines have investigated the various links between the construction industry and economic output. Nevertheless, there remains a noticeable dearth of studies that ...

Abstract: Many studies have investigated the issues related to performance, risks, success, collaboration, and other implications of joint venture (JV) arrangements. The goal of this paper is to investigate the contractual aspects ...

Abstract: Distributed generation (DG) refers to small-scale generation resources that are

Abstract: The current economic and infrastructural growth in developing countries has triggered the use of multiple forms of alternative contracting methods (ACMs)—including engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC)—in various ...

Abstract: Tunnels are an integrated part of the transportation infrastructure. Structural evaluation and inspection of tunnels are vital tasks to assess the deterioration of tunnels and maintain their level of service. Researchers ...

Abstract: The increasing adoption of small-scale electricity generation technologies represents a transition from a hub-and-spoke system of centralized electricity generation to distributed energy resources (DER). Many utilities ...

Abstract: Distributed solar generation (DSG) has grown in popularity in the last decades and is attracting a growing number of adopters. With the continuously decreasing cost of photovoltaic (PV) cells and battery storage technologies, ...