Abstract: A major driver to project success is the ability to manage the project cost effectively. Despite agreement among scholars and practitioners on the importance of managing the project cost, major projects continue to experience ...

Abstract: A major driver to project success is the ability to manage the project cost effectively. Despite the agreement among scholars and practitioners on the importance of managing the project cost, excessive cost overruns continue ...

Abstract: Many state departments of transportation are currently shifting more acceptance sampling and testing responsibilities to contractors because of a shortage of personnel at highway agencies and intensive construction schedules. ...

Abstract: The quality of roadway condition data is critical for the accuracy of infrastructure management decision support systems and, ultimately, for the confidence in these systems. This paper presents a novel outlier detection ...

Abstract: The quality of roadway condition data is critical for the accuracy of infrastructure management decision support systems and, ultimately, for the confidence in these systems. This paper presents a novel outlier detection ...

Abstract: Warranties have been used by many highway agencies in response to increased demand for including quality concepts in all phases of the highway life cycle and to guard against premature infrastructure failures. Currently, ...

Abstract: Current materials and construction specifications for pavement preservation treatments are predominantly prescriptive and rarely correlate the initial quality of the treatment to its future performance. As a result, it is ...

Abstract: The risk in multiyear asset management plans for pavement networks stems from uncertainties in inputs to these plans. Although the literature is rich in probabilistic models and procedures for individual components of asset ...

Abstract: Dewatering and drying of residuals are extremely energy intensive processes, which are necessary to reduce the quantity of wet residuals produced from the water and wastewater treatment operations. Meteorological conditions ...

Abstract: Transportation agencies around the world are using contractor-performed test results in construction and material acceptance and pay decisions. This practice is termed contractor acceptance testing (CAT) in this paper. ...