Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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System Dynamic Approach for Simulation of Experience Transfer in the AEC Industry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper describes the possibilities of using a system dynamic model to simulate experience transfer scenarios in a construction and property management organization. This experience transfer simulation model can be used ... -
Life-Cycle Management of Construction Projects Based on Virtual Prototyping Technology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)Life-cycle management (LCM) has been employed in the management of construction projects for many years in order to reduce whole life cost, time, risk and improve the service to owners. However, owing to lack of an effective ... -
Owner’s Risks versus Control in Transit Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper studies the characteristics of different project delivery methods in public transit projects with respect to the owner’s project control and its share in project risks. The most appropriate project delivery ... -
Rational Three-Step Method for Optimizing Value of Civil Engineering Research
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010)State DOTs and other agencies and organizations desire to solve difficult practical problems in design, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure. To help accomplish this they request and receive proposals from ... -
Quality Culture Auditing for Engineering Consultants
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Design is one of the most important aspects in the engineering project cycle. To improve the quality of engineering consulting firms, various quality techniques and practices have been proposed by researchers. Most researchers ... -
Best Practices for Procuring Commissioning Services
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Owners are increasingly recognizing building commissioning as an effective means of ensuring quality and maximizing energy performance. The demand for commissioning new construction projects has increased substantially ... -
Legal Environment for Warranty Contracting
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Due to the public expectation of better road performance accompanied by economic development and population growth over the past decades, state highway agencies have been under intense pressure for continuous improvement ... -
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis of Chinese Construction Companies in the Global Market
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Recent years have seen a growing trend of Chinese companies making significant inroads into the international construction market. However, comparing to their fast development, only few studies have been reported to introduce ... -
Job Burnout among Construction Engineers Working within Consulting and Contracting Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This research investigated and compared the experience of job burnout among 249 construction engineers working within consulting and contracting organizations in Hong Kong. The most widely recognized model of burnout, ... -
Design Futures: <i>Pop-I</i> Method for Long-Range Planning of Design Organizations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The writers present the results from a research project that explored the factors which design organizations and individual designers take into consideration when they address the management of change to the design function ... -
Improving Labor-Based Road Rehabilitation in Ghana
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)In an attempt to create more employment and reduce poverty, a labor-based road rehabilitation program was introduced in Ghana in 1986 with the assistance of international organizations. Although this program has the potential ... -
Offshore Outsourcing in Global Design Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Researchers have examined the benefits of outsourcing engineering design services from various perspectives. However, the process by which complex engineering design work is outsourced across international boundaries ... -
Development and Application of the Specialist Task Organization Procurement Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The study focuses on the development of an innovative procurement method in order to improve owners’ contracting strategies. The aim of this paper is to develop a procurement system that improves the overall project ... -
Strategic Management Practices in Turkish Construction Firms
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper presents a study that aims to define the present position of Turkish construction companies in terms of strategic management. It is based on a survey measuring strengths and weaknesses in the “strategic management” ... -
Closure to “Safety Risk Identification and Assessment for Beijing Olympic Venues Construction” by Yu Sun, Dongping Fang, Shouqing Wang, Mengdong Dai, and Xiaoquan Lv
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Understanding and Interpreting Baseline Perceptions of Sustainability in Construction among Civil Engineers in the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The highly influential Brundtland report released in 1987 was the first document to define the three pillars of modern sustainable development as environmental, social, and economic. The Rio Summit in 1992, the Kyoto ... -
Risk-Informed Transit Project Oversight
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)This paper presents an evolutionary process of integrating risk management into the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTAs) new-start transit project program. New-start transit projects generally request federal funding ... -
Procurement of Design-Build Services: Two-Phase Selection for Highway Projects
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)In the United States, public agencies are adopting the design-build (DB) delivery method for delivering highway projects after having used the traditional design-bid-build method for generations. In the 2002 design-build ... -
Developing a Performance Index for Relationship-Based Construction Projects in Australia: Delphi Study
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)Over the past decade, an increasing trend of client organizations has been observed to adopt relationship-based approaches to run their building and construction projects internationally. Since there are numerous benefits ... -
Entry Mode Taxonomy for International Construction Markets
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009)The global construction market is large, expanding, fragmented, regionally fluctuating, heterogynous, risky, and highly competitive. To survive and grow in this arena full of opportunities as well as pitfalls, international ...