Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions

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    • Workers' Comp. Premiums: Disparities in Penalties for Identical Losses 

      John G. Everett; I-Tung Yang (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Workers' compensation insurance (WCI) is one of the largest controllable costs for construction contractors. A fixed portion of the WCI standard premium is determined by the individual contractor's company characteristics, ...

    • Quantitative Impacts of Project Change: Size Issues 

      C. William Ibbs (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Change has a tremendous effect on the performance of a construction project. Research that focuses on the quantitative impact is limited, incomplete, and in some cases questionable. The goals of this study were to quantify ...

    • Incentive/Disincentive Provisions in Highway Contracts 

      David Arditi; C. Jotin Khisty; Firuzan Yasamis (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The objective of the study reported in this paper is to compare contracts that include incentive/disincentive (I/D) provisions against contracts that do not include I/D provisions, with regard to the consequences of these ...

    • Rank Correlations In Simulating Construction Costs 

      Ali Touran; Lerdwuthirong Suphot (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      In this paper the use of rank correlations in simulating construction costs is investigated. One suggested methodology for generating correlated random numbers using rank correlations is reviewed and compared with traditional ...

    • What Prompts Construction Innovation? 

      Clyde B. Tatum (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      Current and expected chailenges on large engineering and construction projects demand innovative methods for improved performance. Analyses of several examples of innovative engineering and construction techniques for ...

    • Engineering and Construction Management: Leadership and Opportunity 

      Robert I. Carr (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Construction engineering and management (CE&M) is successful, and it continues to grow and evolve. The construction industry is working hard to improve and CE&M is a leader in that effort. There is much still to do. And ...

    • Improving Workers' Compensation Management in Construction 

      Donn E. Hancher; Jesus M. de la Garza; Gregory K. Eckert (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Workers' compensation is one of the most pressing problem areas in the construction industry. The industry, due to the nature of work involved and the demand for safety, is constantly challenged to improve its management ...

    • Intelligent Technology for Truck Crane Accident Prevention 

      Leonard E. Bernold; Steven J. Lorenc; Erik Luces (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Sideand shock-loading of cranes can cause boom and turret drive gear failures with fatal results. However, traditional overload systems do not protect against these types of critical loading conditions, and crane capacity ...

    • Structural Designs and Construction Technologies for California Highway Bridges 

      Keith Hampson; Martin Fischer (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The California highway bridge construction market is the largest in the United States and still growing. It arguably represents the greatest concentration of highway bridge expenditure in the world. To gain insight into ...

    • Communications and Tracking for Construction Vehicles 

      Arcot L. Naresh; Charles T. Jahren (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Advanced communication and tracking systems (ACTS) have potential to improve the efficiency of vehicle fleets such as dump trucks, concrete trucks, low boy trailers, and scrapers. Commercial applications of ACTS in long ...

    • Characteristics of Design-Relevant Constructability Knowledge 

      Martin Fischer; C. B. Tatum (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Constructability should be an important objective in all phases of a construction project, and designers play an important role in achieving superior constructability. Most projects, however, do not receive constructability ...

    • Delay Claims in U.K. Contracts 

      Stephen Scott (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Contract conditions in both the United Kingdom and the United States are sufficiently similar to allow common generic delay claim scenarios to be recognized, but there are important differences in the extent of legal ...

    • Designers and Contractors: Impediments to Integration 

      Michael S. Puddicombe (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      The adversarial nature of the relationship between designers and contractors is recognized as one of the most serious problems in the building industry. Research in this area has centered on integration issues related to ...

    • Using Improved Genetic Algorithms to Facilitate Time-Cost Optimization 

      Heng Li; Peter Love (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Time-cost optimization problems in construction projects are characterized by the constraints on the time and cost requirements. Such problems are difficult to solve because they do not have unique solutions. Typically, ...

    • Survey of Project Related Finance in United Arab Emirates 

      A. D. F. Price; H. Shawa (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      This paper discusses project related finance for construction contractors operating in the United Arab Emirates. The research's assumptions and hypotheses were formulated after extensive literature searches and discussions ...

    • Construction Management Program 

      Abraham Warszawski (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)
      The typical limitations of the existing construction management programs are the lack of an integrated approach to managerial decisions in real life construction environment, not enough emphasis on engineering design, ...

    • Model for Construction Budget Performance—Neural Network Approach 

      D. K. H. Chua; Y. C. Kog; P. K. Loh; E. J. Jaselskis (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      A neural network approach is used to identify the key management factors that affect budget performance in a project. Field data of project performance has been used to build the budget performance model. This approach ...

    • How Construction Managers Would Like Their Performance to Be Evaluated 

      Refaat H. Abdel-Razek (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      Communication of the expectations of the construction organization and those of the construction managers is a key management function for motivating and developing professional construction managers. This paper explains ...

    • Crew Design Methodology for Construction Contractors 

      A. Hassanein; J. Melin (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)
      This paper presents the results of an investigation to determine the rules contractors use in designing the crews for their daily activities. The reasonable number of crews contractors use and the composition of each crew ...

    • Discussion: Risk Management Perceptions and Trends of U.S. Construction 

      Joseph P. Connolly (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997)