Abstract: Most Americans blame lack of centralized urban planning, weak political will, divisive politics, and way of life for urban sprawl in America. Urban sprawl worsens America’s addiction to oil. Americans drive at least five ...

Abstract: Building designers’ decisions affect long term quality and life cycle cost of buildings. Designers’ decisions are usually latent in nature and hard to detect at the early stage of construction. This research looks at failure ...

Abstract: Construction inspection can take place only during the construction phase of a project. This imposes limitations on what the building inspector can detect, and thus there is often a gap between perceived construction quality ...

Abstract: Construction scheduling for highway projects is an important process during the design stage. Numerous research studies have attempted to apply new techniques to improve the accuracy of construction scheduling. Many of ...

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to establish a research mechanism to investigate the impact of corporate commitment to sustainability on capital project planning and capital project performance. The research hypothesized ...

Abstract: The highly influential Brundtland report released in 1987 was the first document to define the three pillars of modern sustainable development as environmental, social, and economic. The Rio Summit in 1992, the Kyoto ...