Abstract: The U.S. construction industry accounts for approximately 4% of the gross domestic product. Although quantifying and analyzing the cumulative ecological resource consumption of the construction industry is of great importance, ...

Abstract: Sustainability assessment tools are critical in the process of achieving sustainable development. Eco-efficiency has emerged as a practical concept that combines environmental and economic performance indicators to measure ...

Abstract: Attaining higher levels of system integration is seen as the primary goal of construction enterprise information systems (CEIS). Increased system integration resulting from CEIS implementation is expected to lead to numerous ...

Abstract: To successfully evaluate investments related to integrated information management in the construction industry, causal loop diagramming was used to depict the qualitative system dynamics model for the study of the dynamics ...

Abstract: Previous performance-based earthquake engineering investigations on highway bridges focused on repair cost and repair time metrics. These are primarily related to economic life-cycle cost analysis decision-making strategies ...

Abstract: Millions of culverts exist in the United States, and they are aging rapidly. Inspection of all the culverts consumes a lot of time and resources. Instead of inspecting each culvert every 5 years, this study presents a more ...

Abstract: Previous performance-based earthquake engineering investigations on highway bridges focused on repair cost and repair time metrics. These are primarily related to economic life-cycle cost analysis decision-making strategies ...