Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Resource Supply-Demand Matching Scheduling Approach for Construction Workface Planning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016)This paper discusses a novel approach for resource-based scheduling that builds upon existing analytical models to achieve practical allocation of resources that are constrained by supply and demand. The approach facilitates ... -
From Individual to Collective Learning: A Conceptual Learning Framework for Enacting Rework Prevention
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Using an exploratory case study approach, this paper examines a $375 million [Australian dollars (AU$)] program alliance, which delivered 129 water infrastructure projects over a 5-year period that had implemented a dedicated ... -
Predesign Cost Estimating Method for Multistory Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1984)Historical building costs are used to derive the mathematical relationship among the cost, height, and typical floor area of multistory office buildings. The method of least squares is used to select the functional form ... -
Job Characteristics: Union-Nonunion Differences
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 1995)One of the reasons for the development of nonunion construction was to allow management the flexibility of designing jobs without the constraints of jurisdictional and collective-bargaining agreements. The job-characteristics ... -
Risk-Based Project Delivery Selection Model for Highway Design and Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Project-delivery methods allocate risk for design and construction between contractual parties. State departments of transportation (DOTs) using federal funds employ three primary project-delivery methods: (1) design-bid-build ... -
Multiple Baseline Testing: Experimental Method for Drawing Causal Inferences in Construction Engineering and Management Research
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Identifying and evaluating solutions for critical industry challenges is a major theme of construction engineering and management (CEM) research. Researchers and practitioners in the construction sector often seek to invent, ... -
Attribute-Based Safety Risk Assessment. II: Predicting Safety Outcomes Using Generalized Linear Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)One of the recent advancements in preconstruction safety management is the identification and quantification of risks associated with fundamental attributes of construction work environments that cause injuries. The goal ... -
Prefabrication Best Practices and Improvement Opportunities for Electrical Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Prefabrication is a construction operations approach that moves project work to a controlled offsite facility to be accomplished in a standardized and efficient manner. Prefabrication is increasingly becoming attractive ... -
Empirical Study to Determine Fragmentation of Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Fragmentation is a well-known problem in the construction field; however, the literature shows a lack of a precise definition and appropriate measurement of this notion. The purpose of this paper is to determine indicators ... -
Factors Determining South African Construction Workers’ Prejudice towards and Discrimination against HIV+ Persons
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Stigma and fear of discrimination are powerful deterrents against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody testing. Prejudice and discrimination against people living with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are ... -
Risk Assessment of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Construction: State-of-the-Art Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) have long been a primary cause of non-fatal injuries in construction. They involve sudden or continuous stresses on a worker’s musculoskeletal system (e.g., muscles, tendons, ... -
LDA-Based Model for Measuring Impact of Change Orders in Apartment Projects and Its Application for Prerisk Assessment and Postevaluation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This study analyzed the impact of change orders on construction projects by using the loss distribution approach (LDA), which is used in finance to analyze operational risks, and proposed a framework for applying the LDA ... -
Algorithm for Mobile Crane Walking Path Planning in Congested Industrial Plants
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)On-site construction of industrial projects relies heavily on large mobile cranes for the lifting of prefabricated modules, which over the years have become heavier and more voluminous. Industrial construction sites are ... -
Study of the Stability of Earned Value Management Forecasting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)In this paper, the authors focus on the stability of earned value management (EVM) forecasting methods. The contribution is threefold. First of all, a new criterion to measure stability that does not suffer from the ... -
Intervention to Improve Purchasing Decision-Maker Perceptions of Ventilated Tools
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)A theory-based intervention strategy to improve purchasing decision-maker perceptions of ventilated tools was developed, implemented, and tested. The intervention was designed to target key constructs of the prevention ... -
Making Operational Strategies of Asphalt Teams Explicit to Reduce Process Variability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The on-site construction process undertaken by asphalt teams has a critical impact on pavement quality. Process improvement and learning require explicit information about the process. However, current on-site operational ... -
Special Issue on Construction Engineering: Opportunity and Vision for Education, Practice, and Research
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Modeling Social Opposition to Infrastructure Development
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Social and political dynamics increasingly determine the fate of infrastructure development around the world. Decision makers involved with projects such as the Keystone XL pipeline in North America, the Belo Monte Dam in ... -
Condition Prediction Models for Oil and Gas Pipelines Using Regression Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Although they are the safest means of transporting oil and gas products, pipelines can sometimes fail with hazardous consequences and large business losses. The decision to replace, repair, or rehabilitate depends mainly ... -
Developing Cost Estimation Models for Road Rehabilitation and Reconstruction: Case Study of Projects in Europe and Central Asia
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper presents the development of prediction models for the unit costs of road works that could be applied to strategic planning of road works at the network level. A specialized data set was used, which was generated ...