Journal of Construction Engineering and Management: Recent submissions
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Predicting Safety Accident Costs in Construction Projects Using Ensemble Data-Driven Models
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The construction industry suffers from frequent and expensive safety accidents, significantly affecting construction project performance. Numerous data-driven classification models have been developed to categorize ... -
Developing Collaborative Driving Mechanism of Prefabricated Buildings Using Multiagent Stochastic Evolutionary Game
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The prefabricated building has been widely promoted in recent years as it can effectively alleviate the conflict between economic growth and environmental resources. However, the development of the prefabricated building ... -
Proposing a Lean-Optimized Scheduling Model of Mixed-Flow Prefabricated Component Production in Off-Site Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The scheduling of prefabricated component production is crucial for production efficiency and timely delivery in off-site construction (OSC). However, the prevalence of mixed-flow production in prefabrication renders ... -
Impacts of Collaborative Robots on Construction Work Performance and Worker Perception: Experimental Analysis of Human–Robot Collaborative Wood Assembly
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Collaborative robots are increasingly recognized as potential assistants to relieve workers from repetitive and physically demanding tasks on construction jobsites. Despite the great potential, most efforts have focused ... -
Tie-Formation Mechanisms in Evolving Networks of Sponsors in Highway Public–Private Partnerships
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In public–private partnership (PPP) projects, private sponsors collaborate to manage and implement project tasks through shareholder agreements and subcontracts. It is important to recognize that relying exclusively on ... -
LiDAR-Based Automatic Pavement Distress Detection and Management Using Deep Learning and BIM
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Due to the progress in light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology, the collection of road point cloud data containing depth information and spatial coordinates has become more accessible. Consequently, utilizing point ... -
Investigating the Impact of Hazard Perception Failure on Construction Workers’ Unsafe Behavior: An Eye-Tracking and Thinking-Aloud Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Understanding the antecedents of construction workers’ unsafe behavior is significant for developing effective interventions. Many studies have suggested that hazard perception failure influences workers’ unsafe behavior. ... -
Effects of Physical Fatigue on Construction Workers’ Visual Search Patterns during Hazard Identification
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Physical fatigue is a frequent factor in construction workplaces that threatens workers’ safety. This study examines whether fatigue alters visual search patterns adopted by workers during hazard identification, thereby ... -
Construction Workers’ Unsafe Behavior Contagion under Government-Contractor Dual Influence
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Despite efforts to prevent and correct unsafe behavior on construction sites, such behavior persists among construction workers. Much of what makes unsafe behavior so difficult to eradicate is its contagious nature. The ... -
Semantic Web-Based CRUD Operation and Constraint Validation for IFC-Based Information Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In the construction industry, the combination of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and semantic web technologies emerges as a promising approach for project information management. However, semantic web technologies are ... -
Vision-Based Detection of Unsafe Worker Guardrail Climbing Based on Posture and Instance Segmentation Data Fusion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Currently, the incidence of accidents involving falls from height at construction sites caused by workers climbing guardrails is still high. Traditional unsafe behavior management mainly relies on a safety patrol of ... -
Postpandemic Era: Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Construction Workers’ Situational Awareness
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound effect on construction safety, intensifying the challenges faced by workers and exacerbating the industry’s preexisting safety issues. Unlike many other sectors that could shift to ... -
Sustainability in Prefabricated Construction: Enhancing Multicriteria Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Multicriteria analysis is widely used to prove the excellence of prefabricated construction compared with conventional construction. However, because previous studies have not presented the results of an integrated analysis, ... -
A Performance-Based Subcontractor Selection Model
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)General contractors outsource increasingly complex and sophisticated specialized tasks to many subcontractors. In doing so, general contractors typically pick the subcontractor that offers the lowest price for the work to ... -
Effects of Automation and Transparency on Human Psychophysiological States and Perceived System Performance in Construction Safety Automation: An Electroencephalography Experiment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Automation technology has experienced explosive growth in recent decades. However, the construction industry, let alone the field of construction safety, is still among the least digitized globally. Although many types of ... -
Unlocking Productivity: Revealing Waste and Hidden Disturbances Impacting MEP Workers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Wasted effort limits productivity. Successful construction project management entails identifying and mitigating causes of waste. A time-motion study was conducted to collect and classify mechanical, electrical, and plumbing ... -
Integrated Planning Approach for Optimizing Tower Crane and Truck Locations in Modular Integrated Construction
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Tower crane layout planning (TCLP) is key to ensure the safety and productivity of construction projects. Previous studies on TCLP mainly focused on the typical in situ construction method, however, overlooking modular ... -
Automatic Vision-Based Dump Truck Productivity Measurement Based on Deep-Learning Illumination Enhancement for Low-Visibility Harsh Construction Environment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Productivity assessment plays a key role in successful earthwork projects and is primarily achieved by monitoring key construction equipment such as excavators and dump trucks. Vision-based methods are widely adopted to ... -
Framework of Digital Lean Construction and Implementation of Its Management Platform for the Construction Phase
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In order to solve the problem of lack of appropriate tools in the lean construction of construction projects, a framework of digital lean construction is proposed as a whole, and its management platform is implemented for ... -
Benefits and Challenges of Implementing the Common Data Environments in the Construction Phase of BIM-Based Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This research aims to identify, categorize, and prioritize the benefits and challenges of implementing common data environments (CDEs) in the construction phase of building information modeling (BIM)-based projects. For ...