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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 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...

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...

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...

Spring 2015

Sun,Chen

Earth moving projects are commonly involved in the construction industry for tasks such as road construction, pipeline installation, surface mining, and so on. All the operations in earth moving projects are completed by a fleet of different construction equipment. Since earth moving projects...

Spring 2019

Karsten, Lloyd Andrew Maurice

Traffic signs play a critical role in the safety and efficiency of any roadway, but with limited information on the current status of traffic sign inventories, the placement and condition of traffic signs goes largely unchecked. Therefore, the collection of a complete traffic sign inventory (TSI)...

Fall 2016

Sedaghat, Nassim

In recent years, the lower cost of construction resources in overseas countries (e.g. China and Korea) and advancements in transportation have increased the interest in offshore fabrication and assembly of industrial modules as an alternative to local assembly in Alberta, Canada. Many research...

Fall 2013

Abbasi, Majid A

Tight reservoirs stimulated by multistage hydraulic fracturing are commonly characterized by analyzing the hydrocarbon production data. However, analyzing the hydrocarbon production data can best be applied to estimate the effective fracture-matrix interface, and is not enough for a full fracture...

Fall 2012

Khazraeializadeh,Soroush

Pipeline condition assessment is a primary task in running an efficient urban asset management program because in the case of system failure, the consequences can be significant to both municipalities and users. Selecting a suitable assessment protocol is crucial for municipalities, since the...

1998

Mather, Kevin R.