Abstract: This study investigated how the performance of construction firms during different extremes in the business cycle was impacted by a variety of the firms' characteristics. A performance index for a firm's relative market ...

Abstract: Previous research, funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and carried out at MIT, demonstrated modeling approaches that could be used to determine the most effective allocation of risk between owner and contractor, ...

Abstract: Deployable structures can be stored in a compact, folded configuration and are easily deployed into load‐bearing, open forms. Hence, they are suitable for applications where speed and ease of erection and reusability are ...

Abstract: The objectives of project control systems go beyond documentation to recognition of problems and evaluation of their causes. Through the use of broad information systems, a construction manager today is able to assemble a ...

Abstract: Mobile or articulated structures have kinematic connections that permit large relative displacements between components that undergo small elastic deformations. Deployable structures are one example. They can be stored ...