Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Construction-Oriented Design for Manufacture and Assembly Guidelines
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The pursuit of modern product sophistication and production efficiency has bolstered design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) around the world. Being both a design philosophy and a methodology, DfMA has existed in ... -
Quantitative Analysis of the Impacts of Out-of-Sequence Work on Project Performance
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Although out-of-sequence work (OOS) is often cited as a recurring challenge that impacts project performance, it has not been fully addressed in the existing literature as a standalone topic. This paper addresses this gap, ... -
Engineering Productivity Measurement: A Novel Approach
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)The productivity of an engineer could be used as a factor in decision-making in construction management and the coordination of work execution. In this study, an empirical assessment tool is proposed to be used as means ... -
Hazard Recognition and Risk Perception Skills among Union Electricians
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Although most safety guidelines and standards put hazard recognition as the first step of risk management, researchers found that only 6.7% of construction foremen could identify all the site hazards. Regarding construction ... -
Cost Performance Comparison of Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build for Building and Civil Projects Using Mediation Analysis
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)This study analyzes the cost performance of design-build (DB) and design-bid-build (DBB) delivery systems to examine whether one project delivery system (PDS) is always superior to the other when it presents lower cost ... -
Activity Uncrashing Heuristic with Noncritical Activity Rescheduling Method for the Discrete Time-Cost Trade-Off Problem
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Despite intensive research efforts that have been devoted to discrete time-cost optimization of construction projects, the current methods have very limited capabilities for solving the problem for real-life–sized projects. ... -
Estimation of Construction Site Elevations Using Drone-Based Orthoimagery and Deep Learning
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Using deep learning to recover depth information from a single image has been studied in many situations, but there are no published articles related to the determination of construction site elevations. This paper presents ... -
Enhancing BIM-Based Information Interoperability: Dispute Resolution from Legal and Contractual Perspectives
(ASCE, 7/1/2020 1)Building information modeling (BIM) produces positive results for the construction delivery process. BIM obtains these types of results by enabling information interoperability in respect of a building or facility throughout ... -
Understanding Demand for Project Manager Competences in the Construction Industry: Data Mining Approach
(ASCE, 8/1/2020 1)Construction project managers (CPMs) are highly in demand in the construction industry, but this has not yet comprehensively been studied from a demand-side perspective. This study investigated the real-world demand for ... -
Developing a Hierarchical Road Layout Method for Large-Scale Construction Site
(ASCE, 9/1/2020 1)Large-scale construction projects that unify multiple subprojects and cover a large site area have been increased by rapid urbanization. Frequent traffic accidents have occurred inside these construction sites, which highly ... -
Cost Contingency and Cost Evolvement of Construction Projects in the Preconstruction Phase
(ASCE, 6/1/2020 1)The current literature discusses the methods to estimate the costs and cost contingency. The literature also distinguishes “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” contingencies. Little is written, however, about the ... -
Female Engineers’ Happiness and Productivity in Organizations with Paternalistic Culture
(ASCE, 6/1/2020 1)Past research adopted the universalist assumption of the gendered organization lens and revealed the career challenges of female engineers with few practical implications. Because such assumptions may miss the importance ... -
Health and Safety Management Systems within Construction Contractor Organizations: Case Study of South Africa
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)The study reported in this paper investigated health and safety management systems (HSMS) found within medium to large construction contractor organizations in South Africa. The aim of the study was to identify the nuances ... -
Cost Overruns and Formal Risk Assessment Program in US Rail Transit Projects
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Cost overrun in rail transit projects in the United States is a pervasive and constant phenomenon, yet there has been a lack of rigorous statistical analysis on project costs. This has been partly due to the difficulty of ... -
Experiences with Best-Value Procurement in Norway and the Netherlands
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Best-value procurement (BVP) is new in Norway, but there is a plan to use it in several mega infrastructure projects. However, there is no independent research that illustrates what measures ought to be implemented for the ... -
Synchronized Optimization of Various Management-Function Schedules in a Multiproject Environment: Case Study of Planning Steel Girder Fabrication Projects in Bridge Construction
(ASCE, 5/1/2020 1)Structural steel prefabrication is a generally accepted practice in the construction industry conducive to better control of project duration and cost, higher productivity and efficiency, and enhanced quality and safety ... -
New Asynchronous-Pouring Rapid-Construction Method for Long-Span Prestressed Concrete Box Girder Bridges with Corrugated Steel Webs
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)Based on the traditional hanging basket cantilever construction of the prestressed concrete box girders, combined with the excellent shear capacity of the corrugated steel webs (CSWs), this paper introduces an improved ... -
IoT Enabled Real-Time Monitoring System for Early-Age Compressive Strength of Concrete
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)The estimation of the early age compressive strength of concrete is crucial for quality control in the construction industry. The present study proposes an innovative and cost-effective Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled ... -
Critical Strategies for Enhancing BIM Implementation in AEC Projects: Perspectives from Chinese Practitioners
(ASCE, 2/1/2020 1)The production of the architecture engineering and construction (AEC) industry is organized by projects. With the diffusion of information and communication technology in the industry, building information modeling (BIM) ... -
Big Data Analytics System for Costing Power Transmission Projects
(ASCE, 1/1/2020 1)Inaccurate cost estimates have significant impacts on the final cost of power transmission projects and erode profits. Methods for cost estimation have been investigated thoroughly, but they are not used widely in practice. ...