Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Standardization Strategy for Modular Industrial Plants
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Modularization is a well-established technique in which a portion of site-based work is exported to fabrication shops, thereby contributing to an improved construction. When modularization is combined with design ... -
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 asymmetric ... -
HSM-Simulation–Based Planning Method for Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)Construction projects are characterized by the random nature of the conditions under which they are implemented and by the dynamic use of available resources. Since site conditions vary randomly and resources perform a ... -
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 ... -
Quantitative Effects of Construction Changes on Labor Productivity
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)This paper details, in quantitative terms, the effects of changes and change orders on labor productivity and efficiency. Data for the analyses were daily productivity values from three industrial projects constructed in ... -
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 CM/GC Project Delivery on Managing Process Risk in Transportation Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Teams that deliver complex transportation construction projects need tools that manage risk and allow for successful delivery. Construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) project delivery is an alternative method that ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Competitive Advantage of Equity in BOT Tender
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)This paper is concerned with the role of equity and level of equity investment required in a build-operate-transfer (BOT) tender. In times of decreasing ability to raise public funds for infrastructure projects, the BOT ... -
Evaluating Sustainable Building-Maintenance Projects: Balancing Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts in the Case of Hong Kong
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This study investigates whether existing residential buildings can be repaired and maintained with alternative mixes of materials to maximize social, economic, or environmental benefits through a case study of a residential ... -
Creation of Robust Design Alternatives for Temporary Construction in Value Engineering
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)A temporary structure serves mainly to protect permanent building structures from the natural environment during the construction operation. When exposed to the natural environment, a temporary structure should effectively ... -
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 ... -
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), ... -
Time Is Money: Innovative Contracting Methods in Highway Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)In today's highway construction industry, the focus has shifted from building new transportation facilities to resurfacing, rehabilitating and restoring (3R's) those already in existence. These types of projects create a ... -
Time-Cost Performance Effect of Change Orders from Accelerated Contract Provisions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)Accelerated contract provisions (ACPs) such as cost-plus-time ( -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Evaluation of the Superficial Texture of Concrete Pavers Using Digital Image Processing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)When concrete paver is chosen as a material for paving, one of the most important requirements of the supplier is its surface texture. Surface texture is determined by both the concrete mix design and the type and setting ...