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Spring 2018
Crew performance is influenced not only by the environment where construction activities occur, but also by crew motivation, which has largely been overlooked in construction research. For many years, construction engineering researchers have observed that motivational differences within...
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Spring 2017
Changes are commonly required throughout construction projects. Although some changes can be beneficial, most changes are believed to adversely affect project performance. Nevertheless, the matter of change is often overlooked by construction companies and practitioners, thereby resulting in cost...
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A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Construction Research and Development on University, Construction Industry, and Government
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Research and development (R&D) partnerships among universities, industries, and government agencies involve investigative activities that may result in new discoveries and innovations. While R&D partnerships are critical for the technological advancement of the construction industry, they require...
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What Makes a Project Safe? Identifying the Impacts Factors Have on the Safety Performance of a Construction Site through Use of Artificial Neural Networks
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What makes a construction project safe? This question prompted this research project. The goal was to identify factors and quantify their impact on the safety performance of construction projects. The first step in achieving this goal was to research key performance indicators in the area of...
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The Application of Front End Planning and Special Purpose Simulation Templates to Drainage Tunnel Construction
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The Construction Industry Institute (CII) has a best practice under the heading “Front End Planning” (1995) that is meant to ensure that projects are as complete, as optimized, and as certain as possible throughout the project life cycle. In order to demonstrate this, the Project Definition...
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Spring 2015
Although much academic research has been performed in the study of construction process simulation, this research has not seen mainstream application in the construction industry. Many factors play a deterrent role in the adoption of simulation by construction end users, mainly the time, cost and...
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Fall 2014
This research focuses on the accounts payable function in construction firms. The cash conversion cycle includes accounts payable and accounts receivable support functions. Research objectives focus on mapping the existing accounts payable processes in construction, building a model to represent...
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A Semantic-Driven Framework for Facilitating Reusability and Interoperability of Construction Simulation Modeling
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This research describes a semantic-driven framework to facilitate reusability and interoperability of simulation and modeling of construction processes. An immense amount of knowledge of construction processes and simulation modeling is needed to develop construction simulation models. Knowledge...
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Enhancing space modeling and mobile resources planning in construction operations through a simulation driven visualization framework
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Simulation modeling is a strong tool that has not been utilized to its expected potential in day to day construction industry activities. One of the reasons contributing to that is the inability of simulation models to depict changes in site space in an intuitive way. This research tries to...
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The application of simulation methodologies on estimating gas emissions from construction equipment
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Construction contributes significantly to gas emissions. Diverse efforts have been undertaken to mitigate the effects of these emissions; however, there currently is no effective tool to estimate small-scale (e.g., project-based) emissions in construction. Discrete-event simulation (DES), a new...