Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Advanced Steel Beam Assembly Approach for Improving Safety of Structural Steel Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This study describes an advanced steel beam assembly approach to improve the safety of structural steel workers compared with that of the conventional process in construction. The approach uses a self-supported steel joint ... -
Incorporating Multiskilling and Learning in the Optimization of Crew Composition
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The presence of multiskilled workers in a crew can increase the crew’s productivity through reducing inefficiencies and supervision requirements, while also providing on-the-job learning opportunities for single-skilled ... -
A Computational Method for Estimating Travel Frequencies in Site Layout Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Optimizing the layout of facilities on a construction site to minimize the material handling costs has been widely investigated in the literature. An integral part of the objective function utilized in the previously ... -
Lessons Learned from Applying the Individuals Control Charts to Monitoring Autocorrelated Project Performance Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The well-known earned value technique measures and evaluates project performance. It uncovers schedule and cost deviations from the baseline plan. However, it is not established to determine acceptable levels of deviations ... -
Evaluation of Highway Projects under Government Support Mechanisms Based on an Option-Pricing Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Different features included in public-private partnership (PPP) highway projects such as limited liability of the leveraged firm and government support mechanisms [e.g., price adjustment clauses (PACs)] result in ... -
Empirical Analysis of Host-Country Effects in the International Construction Market: An Industry-Level Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The international construction market has significantly grown in the past decades, and it has created new opportunities for engineering and construction firms to expand their businesses into foreign countries. However, ... -
Opportunities for Value Extraction Projects in Highway Rights-of-Way and Development of Feasibility Assessment Tool
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)State departments of transportation (DOTs) have been trying to identify alternative and innovative sources of revenue and cost savings. One potential solution to funding issues that has gained recent attention is value ... -
Early-Termination Compensation in Public–Private Partnership Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have been widely applied around the world in the provision of public works and services. Although a large number of PPP projects in different sectors have been successfully developed with ... -
Application of Case-Based Reasoning for Estimating Preliminary Duration of Building Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The applicability and effectiveness of case-based reasoning (CBR) have been demonstrated in various construction management areas, including bidding, international market selection, safety hazard identification, construction ... -
Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming Model for Nonlinear Discrete Optimization of Project Schedules under Restricted Costs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents the mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model for nonlinear discrete optimization of project schedules under restricted costs. The proposed model includes cost-objective function, generalized ... -
Comparative Study of BIM Acceptance between Korea and the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Substantial research has been performed on data standards and exchanges in the AEC/FM (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management) industry over the past several years. The growing popularity of ... -
Critical Sequence Crashing Heuristic for Resource-Constrained Discrete Time–Cost Trade-Off Problem
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Despite the importance of project deadlines and resource constraints in construction scheduling, very little success has been achieved in solving the resource-constrained discrete time–cost trade-off problem (RCDTCTP), ... -
Analysis of Recurrent Defects in the Execution of Ceramic-Coatings Cladding in Building Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This article presents a series of results that emerged from the implementation of the first phase of a Continuous Improvement study applied to a particular housing construction project. As a result of the study, it was ... -
Party Selection for Integrated Project Delivery Based on Interorganizational Transactive Memory System
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)As a new delivery mode, integrated project delivery (IPD) relies on highly trust-based collaboration among project parties. Thus, selecting the appropriate parties is important for successful IPD. Although traditional ... -
Effects of Stress and Commitment on the Performance of Construction Estimation Participants in Hong Kong
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Cost-estimation participants play an essential role in the success of construction projects, as well as determining the profit margin of an organization. However, these participants must always work to rigid and urgent ... -
Modeling Multi-Stakeholder Multi-Objective Decisions during Public Participation in Major Infrastructure and Construction Projects: A Decision Rule Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Major infrastructure and construction (MIC) projects are those with significant traffic or environmental impact, of strategic and regional significance and high sensitivity. The decision-making process of schemes of this ... -
Closure to “State of Practice of Building Information Modeling in the Electrical Construction Industry” by Awad S. Hanna, Michael Yeutter, and Diane G. Aoun
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Epistemology-Based Context-Aware Semantic Model for Sustainable Construction Practices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)One of the key factors for enabling sustainable construction is promoting the acquisition of knowledge about sustainable construction practices (SCPs). Information retrieval (IR) is at the heart of knowledge acquisition. ... -
Construction Bidding and the Winner’s Curse: Game Theory Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In the construction industry, competitive bidding has long been used as a method for contractor selection. Because the true cost of construction is not known until the completion of the project, adverse selection is a major ... -
Minimizing Upgrade Cost to Achieve LEED Certification for Existing Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Aging buildings represent a significant percentage of existing buildings and are often in urgent need of upgrading to improve their operational, economic, and environmental performance. The owners of these buildings often ...