Abstract: Bridge infrastructure asset management system is a prevailing approach toward having an effective and efficient procedure for monitoring bridges through their different development phases including construction, operation, ...

Abstract: The failure of construction companies is quite crucial because it results in unfinished projects and responsibilities that in turn result in many losses to governments, economies, owners, creditors, and surety companies. ...

Abstract: Failures of dams cause immense property and environmental damages and take thousands of lives. As such, the goal of this paper is to evaluate and predict the hazard potential level of dams in the US using a comparative ...

Abstract: Construction productivity is the industry’s predominant determinant of performance. Although the construction industry periodically provides large amount of data, existing studies have not fully exploited such data sets, ...

Abstract: Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has played a key role in decreasing safety accidents on construction sites, such reduction is not well perceived among the different types of incidents. For ...

Abstract: The treatment of liquidated damages (LD) and penalty clauses depends on the applicable laws under which the contract is construed. Although many attempts have been contemplated to unify the enforceability standards of LD ...

Abstract: Schedule overruns are persistently observed in the construction industry, and the process of accurately calculating the damages incurred by the injured party is perceived to be burdensome. To overcome that, liquidated ...

Abstract: Contracts used in the construction industry allocate numerous risks among the different contracting parties. The clauses of a contract that address risk allocation are often termed exculpatory clauses. Generally, exculpatory ...

Abstract: Regardless of the different project characteristics in the construction industry, cost and schedule overruns are always regarded as being of paramount importance in the project controls area. Numerous research efforts have ...

Abstract: The commercial and legal challenges of offsite construction technology have become more pronounced with the ongoing rise and growing popularity of such construction method. Offsite construction represents a combination ...