Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Handling Unbalanced Bidding in Construction Projects: Prevention Rather Than Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Unbalanced bidding is a common practice associated with both unit price and lump sum contracts. This practice is not usually in the owner’s best interests and is used in different forms by contractors for various reasons. ... -
Dynamic Management of Risk Contingency in Complex Design-Build Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Contingency budgets are commonly used by managers to respond to uncertainty and control the project within the original cost and schedule targets. However, a variety of project participants with conflicting interests creates ... -
A Novel Machine Learning Model for Estimation of Sale Prices of Real Estate Units
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Predicting the price of housing is of paramount importance for near-term economic forecasting of any nation. This paper presents a novel and comprehensive model for estimating the price of new housing in any given city at ... -
A Qualitative Data Analysis for Supplier Quality-Management Practices for Engineer-Procure-Construct Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The process of assuring the procured and fabricated materials for an engineer-procure-construct (EPC) project are within their quality requirements is challenging because nearly every EPC construction project is complex ... -
Analysis of the Complex Mechanisms of Defect Generation in Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)There have been numerous research efforts to minimize construction defects and a variety of suggestions have been provided. However, while all of these suggestions are valuable and have the potential to prevent defects, a ... -
Support for Organizational Change: Change-Readiness Outcomes among AEC Project Teams
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A major area of innovation within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry involves the re-engineering of project delivery processes, yet successful implementation of such processes requires a significant ... -
Evaluation of Cooperation during Project Delivery: Empirical Study on the Hydropower Industry in Southwest China
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Previous studies agree that cooperation among participants is critical to successfully deliver projects; however, little research has quantitatively illustrated how participants benefit from cooperation. Based on partnering ... -
Selecting Globally Sustainable Materials: A Case Study Using Choosing by Advantages
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Design teams must make numerous decisions in building design, including choosing materials. Lately, they have become more concerned about the social and environmental effects of their choices, in addition to the economic ... -
Decision-Making Chains in Electrical Safety for Construction Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Electrocution is one of the four leading causes of worker deaths in the construction sector, and thus it is paramount to identify its mechanisms. This work interprets the mechanisms of an electrical accident as a chain of ... -
Application of Weibull Analysis to Evaluate and Forecast Schedule Performance in Repetitive Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Construction managers regularly monitor projects to ensure that the project performance is under control. The earned value method (EVM) is a widely used tool to forecast project cost and time at completion. However, the ... -
Multicriteria Selection of the Building Material Supplier Using AHP and Fuzzy AHP
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)When selecting a building material supplier, contractors may take into consideration a large number of criteria that are often subjective and hard to measure. Including them all in the evaluation may be beneficial, yet in ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures in International Construction Business: Trends and Prospects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)There is increasing sophistication in corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures by international construction companies (ICCs). Nevertheless, a systematic analysis of the trends and prospects is yet to appear. This ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Rate-Driven and Due Date–Driven Construction: Production Efficiency, Supervision, and Controllability in Residential Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Concerns about production efficiency, quality, and affordability in the residential construction indicate there may be benefits in adopting alternative production control strategies to those traditionally used. Reducing ... -
Sociotechnical Systems of Fatal Electrical Injuries in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The construction industry experiences the greatest proportion of workplace electrical injuries globally. Much research effort has gone toward analyzing this phenomenon, yet a majority of which focused on isolated elements ... -
Performance Test of Wireless Technologies for Personnel and Equipment Proximity Sensing in Work Zones
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)The dynamic nature and limited work space of roadway work zones contribute to dangerous working environments for construction workers. This environment can result in hazardous proximity situations because pedestrian workers ... -
Accounting for Transport Times in Planning Off-Site Shipment of Construction Materials
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Off-site transportation of construction materials is planned commonly by considering the transportation costs as the dominant decision variable. Despite the significant impact of delays in the delivery of materials on the ... -
Effects of Teamwork Climate on Cooperation in Crossfunctional Temporary Multi-Organization Workgroups
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)In this study, the formative roles of common goals, equal status, integrative interactions, and authority support as the optimal factors for engendering individuals’ cooperation with their proximal crossfunctional project ... -
4D Relationships: The Missing Link in 4D Scheduling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Four-dimensional (4D) schedules have proven successful in planning with their visualization capabilities allowing for coordination and time-space conflict detection. However, when considered in depth, internal aspects of ... -
Empirical Perspective on Activity Durations for Project-Management Simulation Studies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Simulation has played an important role in project-management studies of the last decades, but in order for them to produce practical results, a realistic distribution model for activity durations is indispensable. The ... -
Evaluating Integrated Project Delivery Using the Project Quarterback Rating
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper presents the development, validation, and implementation of an innovative comprehensive project performance metric specifically developed for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects. The project ...