Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Real-Time Detection of Personal Protective Equipment Violations for Construction Workers Using Semisupervised Learning and Video Clips
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The collection of personal protective equipment (PPE) violation data is crucial for assessing safety risks in behavior-based safety (BBS) management on construction sites. Owing to the limitations of manual inspection ... -
Human–Machine System Modeling and Safety Risk Assessment in Construction Operations Incorporating Workers’ Performance Variability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The increasing involvement of diverse construction machines has significantly transformed construction operations. Within the nonlinear interaction of multiple worker and machine functions, workers’ performance exhibits ... -
Utilizing Multiskilled Resources in Addressing Labor Shortage Issues in Off-Site Construction: Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Although off-site construction (OSC) offers numerous advantages and is gaining market share, its widespread adoption is limited by a shortage of skilled labor. Multiskilling is valued in OSC as a solution to this shortage, ... -
What Organizational Justice Brings to Project Dispute Negotiation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Negotiators having the intention to settle (ITS) is crucial to accomplishing the negotiated settlement of construction disputes. Organizational justice (i.e., procedural, distributive, and interactional justice) might ... -
Exploring the Mechanism of Risk Perception Failure of Construction Workers from a Capability–Demand Balance Perspective
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Risk perception is crucial for minimizing injuries within the construction industry. However, existing research mostly focuses on the impact of demographic and external factors on construction workers’ risk perception, ... -
Leveraging Semisupervised Learning for Domain Adaptation: Enhancing Safety at Construction Sites through Long-Tailed Object Detection
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The advancement of deep learning has led to a growing demand and increase in research on computer vision–based construction site monitoring for improved safety and operational efficiency. These methods largely depend on ... -
An Ontological Knowledge-Driven Smart Contract Framework for Implicit Bridge Preservation Decision Making
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The decision-making for bridge preservation constitutes two types of rules: explicit rules, which are based on clear specifications to establish an overall baseline preservation plan, and implicit rules, which are rooted ... -
Impacts of Physical and Informational Failures on Worker–Autonomy Trust in Future Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Autonomous agents are increasingly becoming construction workers’ teammates, making them an integral part of tomorrow’s construction industry. Although many expect that worker–autonomy teaming will enhance construction ... -
Question-Answering System Powered by Knowledge Graph and Generative Pretrained Transformer to Support Risk Identification in Tunnel Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Risk identification is fundamental to effective risk management in any construction project. It is especially true for tunnel projects where technicality and complexity increase the risks, uncertainties, and challenges of ... -
Enhanced Highway Project Clustering Framework to Support Project Cost Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)State highway agencies (SHAs) frequently need to cluster projects based on their scope similarity to support various construction planning tasks such as cost estimation. Few recent studies have presented systematic methods ... -
Optimal Outcome Sharing among Clients, Builders, and Designers in Collaborative Construction Contracts: Comparing Design–Bid–Build and Design–Build Methods Using Principal–Agent Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study addresses a significant gap in the literature by proposing an optimal outcome–sharing framework within client–builder–designer relationships, specifically in design–bid–build (DBB) and design–build (DB) project ... -
Multifaceted Optimization for Bridge Inspection Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Regular bridge inspections are essential for ensuring user safety and maintaining the integrity of bridge decks. The effective planning of this process requires careful consideration of various parameters, such as selecting ... -
Analysis of Existing Resource Distribution Metrics and Suggestion of New Metrics
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Resource leveling aims to reduce peak resource demand and fluctuations in resource usage histograms throughout a construction period. The objective function optimum can be obtained in the digitalized construction management ... -
Ergonomic Risk Mitigation through Workforce Planning for Construction Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Construction workers are facing significant ergonomic risks, which negatively affect their health, safety, and productivity, and therefore it is essential to develop effective and applicable risk control measures. In ... -
Smart Rehabilitation-Planning Framework for Sustainable Infrastructure: Roofing Application
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Aging infrastructure assets, including buildings, require efficient rehabilitation to sustain services. However, current rehabilitation planning is a complex process that is challenged by strict budgets and the difficulty ... -
Enhancing Worker Safety: Real-Time Automated Detection of Personal Protective Equipment to Prevent Falls from Heights at Construction Sites Using Improved YOLOv8 and Edge Devices
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Personal protective equipment (PPE), including helmets, harnesses, and lanyards, is pivotal in preventing falls from heights at construction sites. However, ensuring consistent and correct usage of PPE presents a significant ... -
Evaluation Model for Crack Detection with Deep Learning: Improved Confusion Matrix Based on Linear Features
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Damage due to cracking can be detected through either manual visual methods or machine vision techniques for early prevention and maintenance. In recent years, image-based deep learning methods have emerged as potent tools ... -
Harnessing Project Identity and Safety Norms to Promote Construction Workers’ Safety Behavior: Field Intervention Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The importance of workers’ social identity in shaping their safety behaviors has become increasingly acknowledged. Among various social identities (e.g., workgroup, trade, etc.), improving project identity stands out ... -
Gap Analysis of Digitalization Levels in Construction and Manufacturing: A Comparative Study of Construction 4.0 and Industry 4.0
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The digital transformation of the construction industry has been much slower than that of manufacturing. The gaps and causes require in-depth study, and the findings contribute to future directions. Therefore, this study ... -
Construction Quality Hazard Management with Deep Learning–Based Multimodal Storage Strategy–Enabled Blockchain
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Hazard-related data are a critical component in construction quality hazard management (CQHM). However, data security and latency issues in CQHM cannot be guaranteed in centralized systems currently and prevent it from ...