Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Future Smart Facilities: State-of-the-Art BIM-Enabled Facility Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
Economic Evaluation of High-Strength Materials in Stocky Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Previous numerical research has shown that high-strength steel reinforcing bars (rebar) combined with high-strength concrete can increase the lateral strength of stocky (i.e., low height-to-length aspect ratio) reinforced ... -
Forecasting Completed Cost of Highway Construction Projects Using LASSO Regularized Regression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Finishing highway projects within budget is critical for state highway agencies (SHAs) because budget overruns can result in severe damage to their reputation and credibility. Cost overruns in highway projects have plagued ... -
Perspectives of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Spanning Three Decades
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
CPM Scheduling: A 60-Year History
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ... -
Low-Cost Ergonomic Intervention for Mitigating Physical and Subjective Discomfort during Manual Rebar Tying
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The construction industry around the globe is facing a massive predicament of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), largely attributed to the excessive physical exertion at worksites. Whereas ergonomic interventions ... -
Construction Equipment Management Practices for Improving Labor Productivity in Multistory Building Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Construction project productivity can be enhanced by the implementation of good management practices. The purposes of this research are to identify construction equipment management practices that have the potential to ... -
Personal Characteristics Moderate Work Stress in Construction Professionals
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Studies of work stress in the construction industry have largely considered work characteristics as cofounding factors of work-related psychological illnesses and have paid minimal attention to the characteristics of ... -
Work Stress Is a Threat to Gender Diversity in the Construction Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The construction industry is missing out on numerous performance gains derived from gender diversity. Its reputation for excessive work stress, resulting in poor psychological health, is among the reasons for women not ... -
Experiencing Supply Chain Optimizations: A Serious Gaming Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)To provide new opportunities for acquiring experience in coordinating construction supply chain activities, this paper describes a serious gaming approach. Serious games offer their users an experience that is designed to ... -
Quantifying and Modeling the Cumulative Impact of Change Orders
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The modern construction industry in the United States generated 5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016. In an industry this large, it is inevitable that changes will detrimentally effect projects. Yet, ... -
Asset Data Handover for a Large Educational Institution: Case-Study Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Owners of multiple facilities who maintain large capital portfolios are challenged with efficient maintenance to streamline operational processes and costs. Clearly defined and structured information documentation standards ... -
Empirical Investigation of Temporal Association between Architecture Billings Index and Construction Spending Using Time-Series Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Construction spending (CS) represents the level of construction activities in the United States. It has been widely used for evaluating and tracking the construction market. Evaluation of the construction market provides ... -
Estimating Construction Labor Productivity Frontier: Pilot Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Existing practice compares actual productivity with historical data to gauge construction operation efficiency. However, this practice is accurate only if historical data reflect optimal values—generally, such comparisons ... -
Fuzzy Weighted Interpretive Structural Modeling: Improved Method for Identification of Risk Interactions in Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)The construction industry has a major role in the economic development of any country. Because of the nature of the construction industry and its unique characteristics, and the overtime work and overbudget funds spent on ... -
Statistical Model for Schedule Prediction: Validation in a Housing-Cooperative Construction Database
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)There are often considerable differences between the planned schedule for a construction project and what later develops during actual construction. This paper introduces an innovative approach that uses Markov Chain models ... -
Database-Supported and Web-Based Visualization for Daily 4D BIM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Four-dimensional (4D) building information modeling (BIM) (3D BIM plus time) is a powerful tool to visualize and communicate construction plans and milestones. A potential use of 4D BIM is to support daily construction ... -
Handling Risks of Quantity Variations in Unit-Price Contracts
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Unit-price contracts are awarded based on estimated quantities while payment to the contractor is based on actual quantities of work. In many cases, estimated and actual quantities never perfectly match each other for ... -
Rethinking Partnering among Quantity-Surveying Firms in Nigeria
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)This paper explores the benefits and barriers to partnering in quantity-surveying (QS) firms in Nigeria, and suggests projects and professional services best served by this practice. A mixed research design informs the ... -
Mechanisms to Initiate Knowledge-Sharing Connections in Communities of Practice
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017)Within many construction and engineering organizations, communities of practice (CoPs) have become an important means for managing knowledge. They are employed to connect employees with technical specialists, which should ...