Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Improving the Accuracy of Early Cost Estimates on Transportation Infrastructure Projects
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)A better understanding of top-down estimating practices and their contribution to budgeting accuracy allows public transportation agencies to allocate limited construction funds more efficiently. This paper builds on a ... -
Probabilistic Resilience-Guided Infrastructure Risk Management
(ASCE, 11/1/2020 )The increased frequency and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic hazard events that affected infrastructure systems over the past two decades have highlighted the need for more effective risk management strategies. Such ... -
Improving Resiliency of Water Supply System in Arid Regions: Integrating Centrality and Hydraulic Vulnerability
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)A water supply system is a key infrastructure providing critical services to city-dwellers. Due to major disaster events causing a water shortage, the supply systems can be vulnerable. This paper presents a study aimed at ... -
Effects of Career Horizon and Corporate Governance in China’s Construction Industry: Multilevel Study of Top Management Fraud
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)To investigate the drivers of fraudulent behavior in the construction industry, this study focused on top managers and explored whether individual-level and firm-level characteristics would exert an influence on likelihood ... -
Fuzzy Agent-Based Multicriteria Decision-Making Model for Analyzing Construction Crew Performance
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Selecting economically feasible policies for maximizing crew motivation and performance is a multifaceted problem, and each aspect of the process poses considerable unique challenges for construction practitioners. Fuzzy ... -
System Dynamics Modeling-Based Approach for Assessing Seismic Resilience of Hospitals: Methodology and a Case in China
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Hospitals play a crucial role in providing badly needed medical care after earthquakes. Meanwhile, hospitals are likely to find themselves subject to earthquake impacts and may fail to function, which highlights that there ... -
How Sensation-Seeking Propensity Determines Individuals’ Risk-Taking Behaviors: Implication of Risk Compensation in a Simulated Roofing Task
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Risk compensation theory attempts to explain why and how workers modify their risk-taking behaviors in response to the level of safety intervention they receive. One ramification of this theory is that dispositional ... -
Influence Mechanisms of Factors on Project Management Capability
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Project management capability (PMC) is the competence required to ensure an organization remains competitive when conducting construction projects. Although many factors that affect PMC have been studied, the key ingredients ... -
Stipends in Highway Design–Build Projects
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Considering that little guidance exists for determining the appropriate stipend amount in design–build projects, the goal of this study is to benchmark the current practices regarding stipends and determine the relative ... -
Evaluation and Prediction of the Hazard Potential Level of Dam Infrastructures Using Computational Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)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 ... -
Flood Resilience of Urban River Restoration Projects: Case Studies in Hong Kong
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)As a flood mitigation strategy, most of Hong Kong’s river channels were straightened and lined with concrete to maximize their drainage capacities, but at the cost of ecological and aesthetic values. To reclaim these and ... -
Advancing Women in Construction: Gender Differences in Attraction and Retention Factors with Managers in the Electrical Construction Industry
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Representing half of the workforce, women have been consistently underrepresented in the construction industry. Unlike other fields that have improved upon the lack of diversity, construction remains one of the most ... -
Does Compatibility of Personality Affect Productivity? Exploratory Study with Construction Crews
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Crew productivity is a function of how efficiently labor is utilized in the construction process. However, previous research in construction has not comprehensively investigated the relationship between personality and ... -
Integrating Corrective Actions in Project Time Forecasting Using Exponential Smoothing
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Earned value management (EVM) and earned duration management (EDM) are established methodologies to monitor the project performance during execution. These methods serve as a basis to forecast the final project duration ... -
Innovative Technologies and Management Approaches for Facility Design Standardization and Modularization of Capital Projects
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Recently, the emergence of new technologies has renewed interest in modularization and facility design standardization. However, the application of both facility design standardization and modularization is still limited ... -
Exploring the Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Team Social Capital and Construction Project Performance
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)This study aims to assess the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on team social capital (SC) and project performance in the construction domain. A theoretical model of the relationships among different ... -
Metadata-Based Analysis of Physical–Social–Civic Systems to Develop the Knowledge Base for Hurricane Shelter Planning
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Emergency shelters are essential to protect evacuees from any threats posed by a hurricane and provide them with basic needs and assistance until it is safe to return to their homes. In a posthurricane situation, existing ... -
Critical Airport Infrastructure Disaster Resilience: A Framework and Simulation Model for Rapid Adaptation
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Resilient critical airport infrastructures affected by a disaster need to sustain minimal functionality and quickly resume full operation, while at the same time coping with the increased operational demands imposed by the ... -
Longitudinal Study of BIM Adoption by Public Construction Clients
(ASCE, 7/1/2020 1)Building information modeling (BIM) adoption is driven in part by the government and other large public procurement agencies mandating its use. A longitudinal study of BIM adoption in three major public agencies (two in ... -
How Design Standardization CSFs Can Impact Project Performance of Capital Projects
(ASCE, 7/1/2020 1)Standardization is a commonplace idea today; however, capital projects have not been able to achieve high levels of facility design standardization. The Construction Industry Institute (CII) identified 15 standardization ...