Abstract: Cost overruns persist in the current construction industry. Large-size cost overruns are especially detrimental to projects, but the literature has treated such overruns no differently from regular ones. This paper argues ...

Abstract: The traditional audit process in construction cost control usually occurs passively at the end of a project life cycle. This calls for a predictive model that provides a framework assembling essential information and ...

Abstract: This paper summarizes the analytical and experimental results of piggy-backed drag embedment anchors composed of two drag embedment anchors. Drag embedment tests with piggy-backed drag embedment anchors were performed with ...

Abstract: The small-strain stiffness of soil measured through dynamic tests can be utilized in the finite element method to simulate static conditions. Although numerous soil constitutive models incorporated the elastic law of the ...