Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Recipes for Standardized Capital Projects’ Performance Success
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Currently, facility design standardization is a well-established and quotidian strategy, especially in the manufacturing and shipbuilding industries. Even so, the construction industry, specifically the capital project ... -
Earned Value Management System State of Practice: Identifying Critical Subprocesses, Challenges, and Environment Factors of a High-Performing EVMS
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)For more than five decades, Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) have been applied by organizations to manage their projects in different industries. However, many organizations still struggle to apply Earned Value ... -
New Construction Cost Indices to Improve Highway Management
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Construction cost indices support planners, engineers, and policymakers in improving the management of highways. This study details the creation, analysis, and application of four new quarterly highway construction cost ... -
Multidomain Drivers of Occupant Comfort, Productivity, and Well-Being in Buildings: Insights from an Exploratory and Explanatory Analysis
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Effective building management strategies require a clear understanding of how occupants perceive their indoor environmental conditions. Despite their important findings, previous studies were mostly limited to single-domain ... -
How the COVID-19 Outbreak Affected Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Emergency Construction Megaprojects: Case Study from Two Emergency Hospital Projects in Wuhan, China
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)The rapid construction of emergency hospitals in areas with a severe COVID-19 outbreak was one of the effective ways to contain and fight the pandemic. However, such rapid construction megaprojects need more than a formal ... -
Evaluation of the Impact of Collaboration and Integration on Performance of Industrial Projects
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Large-scale industrial projects are challenging due to high degrees of complexity, multiple stakeholders with differing business objectives, evolving technology, building in adverse environments, and other difficulties. ... -
Factors Affecting Workforce Resilience in Public Transportation Agencies
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Ensuring the resiliency of a nation’s transportation infrastructure network requires a skilled and dependable workforce; this relies heavily on a transportation agency’s ability to recruit and retain their employees. Public ... -
Understanding the Key Risks Affecting Cost and Schedule Performance of Modular Construction Projects
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Modular construction has been documented to be superior over traditional construction methods in terms of schedule, quality, predictability, and other project objectives. However, the lack of understanding and proper ... -
Risk Response of Complex Projects: Risk Association Network Method
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)A complex project, which has been recognized as a complex system with intricate interactions among organizations, is inevitably plagued with diverse risks and has fuzzy risk boundaries. Risk systems emerging from organizations ... -
Schedule Delay Leading Indicators in Precast Concrete Construction Projects: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Korean Cases
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)This paper analyzed 19 precast concrete (PC) construction project cases from Korea using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to explore the relationship between the conditions of PC projects, observable at an early ... -
Causes of Defects Associated with Tolerances in Construction: A Case Study
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Defects associated with dimensional and geometric variations (tolerance issues) are among the most costly and recurring defects in construction projects, yet the identification and mitigation of the causes of tolerance ... -
Building a Diverse Engineering and Construction Industry: Public and Private Sector Retention of Women in the Civil Engineering Workforce
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)The gender gap in the construction and engineering workforce persists, despite efforts to close it over the past several decades. Increasing gender diversity is a critical strategy for strengthening the supply of engineering ... -
Importance of Noncost Criteria Weighing in Best-Value Design–Build US Highway Projects
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)United States highway agencies use best-value procurement with a fixed price to select design builders. This method enables public agencies to choose the best proposer by assessing several factors in addition to price. ... -
Conceptual Profit Allocation Framework for Construction Joint Ventures: Shapley Value Approach
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Construction joint ventures (CJVs) execute business by pooling diverse technical and financial contributions from collaborating entities. Traditional CJV profit-allocation approaches account only for investment shares, and ... -
Optimal Clustering of Pavement Segments Using K-Prototype Algorithm in a High-Dimensional Mixed Feature Space
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)The efficiency of pavement lifecycle planning highly depends on the accuracy of condition predictions. Therefore, transportation agencies strive to maximize the impact of the limited budget through investment decisions ... -
Identifying and Controlling Biases in Expert-Opinion Research: Guidelines for Variations of Delphi, Nominal Group Technique, and Focus Groups
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)In construction engineering and management (CEM) research, conducting field studies often is infeasible because of resource constraints, limited access to sites, practicality, confounding factors, and ethical limitations. ... -
Impact of Change Blindness on Worker Hazard Identification at Jobsites
(ASCE, 7/1/2021)Due to the dynamic nature of construction sites, workers face constant changes, including changes that endanger their safety. Failing to notice significant changes to visual scenes—known as change blindness—can potentially ... -
Empirical Study of Identifying Logistical Problems in Prefabricated Interior Wall Panel Construction
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)Off-site prefabrication is becoming widespread in the construction industry owing to quality, safety, and schedule benefits, but logistical costs are still among the largest barriers to adopting it. This study focuses on ... -
Sources of Uncertainties in Offsite Logistics of Modular Construction for High-Rise Building Projects
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)A critical concern in the supply chain of modular construction is offsite logistics that involve complicated module manufacturing, storage, and transportation processes. However, numerous uncertainties exist in a supply ... -
Exploring the Relationship between Construction Workers’ Communication Skills and Their Productivity
(ASCE, 5/1/2021)In this globally connected world, construction sites are becoming multicultural workplaces. Workers from different places, cultures, and social backgrounds are increasing workplace diversity. However, the literature shows ...