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2005

Tian, Yinglun

Spring 2015

Ekyalimpa, Ronald

Acquiring and sustaining an edge over competitors in an era that is characterized by more complex and massive projects, scarce resources, more stringent client requirements, and higher expectations from board members is quite challenging for construction companies. It is believed that...

Fall 2013

Wang,Xuanru

System dynamics modelling provides an effective approach for water management, as shown in this thesis, using Agriculture Canada’s Invitational Drought Tournament (IDT) as a case study. The objectives of the research are to simulate basin-scale management of the fictitious Western Canadian “Oxbow...

Fall 2014

Shao, Lin

Connected Vehicle (CV) technology is a promising advancement that has the potential to improve traffic safety and traffic efficiency, and support other Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications through facilitating vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Since...

Fall 2021

Mohammadhosseinzadeh Golabchi, Hamidreza

Considering the high rates of labor resources in construction projects clearly indicates the importance of appropriate labor resource management methods. Accurate labor resource allocation is a substantial step towards successful labor resource management. With the recent developments in the area...

Spring 2018

Monzer, Natalie

Construction companies constantly seek to improve risk analysis techniques to determine projects' risk contingency. The construction risk assessment practice relies on heterogeneous experts' opinions in a group decision making (GDM) process to determine the risk probabilities and impacts on a...

Fall 2017

Pereira, Estacio Siemann Santos

Although previous research has emphasized the use of safety-related measures to assess and control safety performance, many construction companies continue to rely on reactive indicators for safety control. The reluctance of industry to use safety-related measures for the proactive evaluation of...

Fall 2019

Tian, Yichen

In the current practice, cabinets (in kitchen, bathroom, and closet) are designed and manufactured using different software and tools. Sales use simple visualization tools (i.e. Sketchup) to communicate with their clients while the same cabinets are re-drafted for estimation, permits, and...

2007

Shahin, Adham A

Spring 2014

Ajweh,Ziad

The construction industry is highly competitive and continually striving towards improving its performance in terms of time, cost, quality, and safety. Improved performance is essential to survival in today’s construction market. In this regard, measuring productivity can facilitate improved...