Abstract: Small businesses play a significant role in the construction industry. When expressed in terms of the number of businesses, number of employees, or amount of payroll, they make up the largest share of the industry. The ...

Abstract: Forensic engineering investigations of residential structures often include measurements of elevation differences across the slab-on-grade floor as an indicator of movement (settlement or heave) of the underlying soil. ...

Abstract: Theoretical and computational studies of supply chains are confined mainly to buyer-supplier dyads. Evaluation of more tiers in the construction sector specifically is also rare, perhaps in part because short-term partnerships ...

Abstract: With worldwide energy consumption rising, there is a need to reduce energy use of the housing stock. While this general idea is well-known, there is an overwhelming amount of product data and manufacturers claims through ...

Abstract: The production equation called Little’s law has been applied to construction data recently. However, Little’s law was derived for steady-state conditions assuming constant input and output rates and long production runs. ...

Abstract: This paper examines the production implications of quality control inspections conducted on the buffer between processes in a construction project by modeling the linkage between these processes. Inspection of partially ...

Abstract: Production home building possesses characteristics similar to manufacturing processes, such as the construction of more or less similar houses repeatedly and a growing demand for mass customization of homes. As a result ...

Abstract: Production building in the residential sector is often described as the portion of the construction industry that is most like the manufacturing sector. In modern tract construction in the United States, a small number of ...