Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
Now showing items 2321-2340 of 5185
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Construction Automation: Demands and Satisfiers in the United States and Japan
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Automation and robotics are often proposed as solutions to problems in productivity, quality, safety, and skilled-labor availability in the United States and in Japan. In recent years, many prototype robots have been ... -
Criticism of CPM for Project Planning Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)Published criticism in recent years concerning the inadequacy of Critical Path Method (CPM) as a project planning tool is identified and grouped under six major headings with reference to the publications in which the ... -
Innovative Building Construction Technique: Modified Up/Down Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)The up/down construction method has great potential to shorten construction time. Until several years ago, this method had rarely been used in the United States. Recently, however, it has emerged, being applied in several ... -
Strategic Planning in Construction Companies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Strategic planning is an essential function of senior management in any business firm. Planning involves the firm's behavior in a competitive market and adaptation of the company's resources towards the selected market ... -
Construction Resource Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)A new approach for resource scheduling using genetic algorithms (GAs) is presented here. The methodology does not depend on any set of heuristic rules. Instead, its strength lies in the selection and recombination tasks ... -
Utility-Theory Model for Bid Markup Decisions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)A utility theory model, which is one of three generic methods for bid markup determination, is developed using 21 criteria in the bidding decision. The majority of the criteria are evaluated subjectively by a decision ... -
Performance of Chain Trenchers in Mixed Ground
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Chain trenchers were used to cut moderately strong sandstone bedrock, compressive strength 6–9,000 psi (41–62 MN/m -
Evaluating the Performance of Construction Equipment Operators in Egypt
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Problems in operating construction equipment in Egypt were perceived as resulting in low productivity. Productivity was considered in this study as a measurement dimension that sufficiently describes operator's performance. ... -
Fully Automated Rebar CAD/CAM System: Economic Evaluation and Field Implementation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)This paper describes an economic evaluation that determines the value to the user of a fully automated rebar computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) system. That value is $167,000, rising to more than ... -
Identifying OSHA Paragraphs of Particular Interest
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Employers of construction workers have become increasingly concerned about worker safety in the past decade. Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations provide safety guidelines, they do ... -
Innovative Technology Development for Safe Excavation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Serious injuries and costly damages caused by excavators hitting underground utilities are constantly in the headlines of the news media. The accidents sometimes result in the death of one or more persons. Thus, excavation ... -
Labor‐Management Cooperation: Operation MOST
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)Unionized contractors and construction unions are in difficulty today because of their apparent increasing lack of competitiveness with the non‐union sector of the industry. Probiems contributing to this are examined, as ... -
Characteristics of the Craft Workforce
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)The heart of the competitiveness in the U.S. construction industry has always been the skilled workforce that has been available to implement the technology of construction. During the late 1980s, many experts predicted ... -
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Company and Project Evaluation Model for Privately Promoted Infrastructure Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)The decline in government funds and the increased demand on public agencies for the construction of new (or the rehabilitation of existing) infrastructure projects has led to the growth of alternative forms of project ... -
New Approach for Optimization of Overall Construction Schedule
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)This paper is concerned with one of the most important tasks in construction management—scheduling of construction project—and shows how to optimize the overall construction schedule. The current optimization methods seem ... -
Construction Waste: Quantification and Source Evaluation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)A significant part of waste generation is caused by the building and construction industry. Reduction of construction waste is therefore a major topic of the integrated chain management policy of the Dutch government. ... -
Strategies for Achieving Excellence in Construction Safety Performance
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)This paper provides strategies for improving construction safety performance through the analysis of numerical profiles of companies and projects with varying levels of safety performance. This research perspective compliments ... -
Lessons Learned from Multiphase Reconstruction Project
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Because of the constraints of the existing building, a reconstruction project is more complicated and difficult than a new project, and a multiphase reconstruction project is even more complicated and difficult than a ... -
Automated Constructibility Analysis of Work-Zone Traffic-Control Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1996)Constructibility, in simple words, is the ability to construct effectively. This study involved the development of a prototype system to perform highway constructibility analysis of traffic-control planning (TCP). The ...