Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Costing and Technological Challenges of Offshore Oil and Gas Decommissioning in the U.K. North Sea
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A significant number of offshore oil and gas installations in the U.K. North Sea have either exceeded or are approaching the end of their designed economic life. Operators and contractors are confronted with an array of ... -
Promoting Construction Supervisors’ Safety-Efficacy to Improve Safety Climate: Training Intervention Trial
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Hispanic workers may be more likely to experience a deficient safety climate on construction worksites and it may account for their disproportionate injury rates. As part of a large study, the authors developed and implemented ... -
Assessment of Stakeholder-Related Risks in Construction Projects: Integrated Analyses of Risk Attributes and Stakeholder Influences
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This research proposes a more accurate model for assessing stakeholder-related risks by integrated analyses of risk attributes and stakeholder influences from a theoretical perspective. In the proposed model, there are ... -
Risks in PPP Water Projects in China: Perspective of Local Governments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)In the last decade, China has implemented more public–private partnership (PPP) projects in the water sector compared to other sectors. However, efficient management of risks in these projects remains problematic. While ... -
Optimizing the Owner’s Scenarios for Budget Allocation in a Portfolio of Projects Using Agent-Based Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Budget deficits or owners’ cash-flow problems are often blamed for construction delays and construction cost increases that may be caused by these delays. Although many studies have focused on resource allocation, cash-flow ... -
Naming Objects in BIM: A Convention and a Semiautomatic Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A consistent and easily recognizable name is the primary identifier of an object in building information modeling (BIM). Existing naming conventions vary significantly and require extensive manual work that is often tedious ... -
Maintenance Planning of Pitched Roofs in Current Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The implementation of a roof maintenance plan is a key element to control in-service system performance by monitoring the deterioration factors, types of anomalies, and their causes. A continuous and structured follow-up ... -
Relationships between Main Contractors and Subcontractors and Their Impacts on Main Contractor Competitiveness: An Empirical Study in Hong Kong
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Subcontracting is a common practice in the modern construction industry. The performance of construction projects will be adversely affected if the relationships between main contractors and subcontractors are not properly ... -
Multidimensional Highway Construction Cost Indexes Using Dynamic Item Basket
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)A highway construction cost index (HCCI) is an indicator of the purchasing power of a highway agency. Thus, it must reflect the actual construction market conditions. However, current methods used by most state departments ... -
Strategies Employed and Lessons Learned by Commercial Construction Companies during Economic Recession and Recovery
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The purpose of this research was to identify strategies used and lessons learned by western U.S. commercial construction companies during the great recession (2007–2009). The experience gained by companies who weather an ... -
Construction Project Complexity: Research Trends and Implications
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The rapid growth of complex projects in the construction industry worldwide has triggered a growing number of studies over the past two decades, suggesting that understanding project complexity is a key component of ... -
Implementation of 3D Integration Model for Project Delivery Success: Case Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The means for assessing what constitutes successful project delivery is a controversial topic in the literature, with many approaches and frameworks in play. This paper extends an existing three-dimensional (3D) integration ... -
Identification, Quantification, and Classification of Potential Safety Risk for Sustainable Construction in the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Sustainability is a balanced approach that puts equal focus on the environment, economy, and society. Research suggests that worker health and safety is an integral dimension of social sustainability. The present research ... -
Discovering the Transition Pathways toward Sustainability for Construction Enterprises: Importance-Performance Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)There has been growing awareness and demand for construction enterprises’ transition toward sustainability with an aim to maximize the economic, social, and environmental values of construction. This presents a significant ... -
Owner Perceptions of Barriers to Prevention through Design Diffusion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Prevention through design (PtD) is an emerging concept for reducing safety hazards and preventing worker injuries and fatalities. Existing literature suggests that diffusion of PtD faces several significant barriers. This ... -
Supervisor-Focused Behavior-Based Safety Method for the Construction Industry: Case Study in Hong Kong
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Behavior-based safety (BBS) methods have been widely reported as an important contributor to the prevention of accidents and improvement of safety performance in construction projects. However, most existing BBS methods ... -
2016 Best Paper Award
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Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Flat Roofs of Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Flat roofs have had been gaining in popularity in several countries, and the roof is one of the building envelope elements where most thermal exchanges with the exterior occur, and this considerably influences the thermal ... -
Managing Complex Engineering Interfaces of Urban Mass Rapid Transit Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Managing the engineering interfaces of mass rapid transit (MRT) projects is difficult and exhausting work because thousands of complex interrelated construction interfaces are embedded among multiple subworks and subsystems. ... -
A Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Residential Buildings Including Natural Hazard Risk
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Despite isolated efforts in the cost assessment of design strategies for energy-efficient and resilient buildings, there is still a need for an integrated assessment that incorporates major expected costs over the entire ...