Abstract: This study was undertaken to identify the most significant gaps between the potential benefits of applying constructability principles to Alberta, Canada, industrial projects and the benefits typically realized in industry ...

Abstract: Measuring projects’ cost and schedule risks in an integrated framework using simulation has several modeling challenges that have yet to be addressed by researchers. This paper presents a multilevel network modeling approach ...

Abstract: Decision trees (DTs) have proven to be valuable tools for decision making. The common approach for using DTs is calculating the expected value (EV) based on single-number estimates, but the single-number EV method has ...

Abstract: Avoiding construction claims and disputes requires understanding of the contractual terms, early nonadversarial communication, and understanding of the causes of claims. The present paper addresses the latter issue by ...