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Risk Analysis in Implementing Building Energy Performance Projects: Hybrid DANP-VIKOR Model Analysis — A Case Study in Iran
(MDPI, 2023-08-14)Building energy performance contracts have emerged as a highly effective strategy for reducing energy consumption in both developed and developing markets. These projects inherently involve risks, and a comprehensive risk ... -
Unmanned Aerial Systems and Deep Learning for Safety and Health Activity Monitoring on Construction Sites
(MDPI, 2023-07-26)Construction is a highly hazardous industry typified by several complex features in dynamic work environments that have the possibility of causing harm or ill health to construction workers. The constant monitoring of ... -
Vibrotactile Alerting to Prevent Accidents in Highway Construction Work Zones: An Exploratory Study
(MDPI, 2023-06-16)Struck-by accidents are the leading cause of injuries in highway construction work zones. Despite numerous safety interventions, injury rates remain high. As workers’ exposure to traffic is sometimes unavoidable, ... -
A Mycorrhizal Model for Transactive Solar Energy Markets with Battery Storage
(MDPI, 2023-05-13)Distributed market structures for local, transactive energy trading can be modeled with ecological systems, such as mycorrhizal networks, which have evolved to facilitate interplant carbon exchange in forest ecosystems. ... -
Sustainable Operations: A Systematic Operational Performance Evaluation Framework for Public-Private Partnership Transportation Infrastructure Projects
(MDPI, 2023-05-12)With the application of public–private partnership (PPP) model in urban transportation infrastructure projects, various participants have put forward multi-dimensional demands to the operation and maintenance of ... -
A Tool-Based System Architecture for a Digital Twin: A Case Study in a Healthcare Facility
(International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, 2023-02)Changes in the local and global markets are forcing A/E/C/FM (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management) organizations to deliver more robust and innovative operational BIMs (Building Information ... -
Measuring the Impacts of AR HMD on Users' Situation Awareness During Wood Frame Assembly Tasks
(International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, 2023-02)Advances in the development of Augmented Reality (AR) hardware and software allow for novel opportunities to positively influence the traditional construction industry. Recent research studied the feasibility of various ... -
Transformation of Information Flows and Work Processes for Field Superintendents
(2002)This paper addresses field information flows and work processes of one of America’s largest residential homebuilders. This residential contractor currently uses a combination of; 1) web based scheduling, allowing subcontractor ... -
Owner Initiated Modernization of Bridge Safety Inspections
(2004)This paper reports on an “asset management” research program that is applicable to both the private and public sectors. This work presents the strategies and endeavors initiated and driven by a public sector owner in an ... -
Introducing Organizational Intelligence to the Construction Industry
(2010)The construction industry, which is inherently multidisciplinary, has adopted intellectual and technical business improvements from many other industries with the intent to optimize productivity. Therefore, there is a need ... -
Residential Drainline Challenges and Future Design Objectives
(2022-04-21)Concerns of plumbing drainline issues are growing due to crumbling infrastructure, water conservation efforts, lower flows in drainline carry, outdated codes, pipe rigidity, and remodeling issues. The problem calls for a ... -
Ranking Student Employment Decision Criteria
(2020-09-25)This paper presents the results of a recent survey taken by construction management (CM) students at four U.S. Construction Management programs and the construction industry companies that recruit them. Respondents were ... -
A study of effectiveness and value of BIM implementation in Lean Construction among medium size Mid-Atlantic USA construction firms
(2020-09-25)Lean Construction and Build information modelling (BIM) are two of the major advancements in construction industry that focus on increasing the productivity and adding value to the building process. Although previous work ... -
Virginia’s Public Procurement of Design-Build and Construction Management Services
(1999)Both the Commonwealth of Virginia and its local governments have embarked upon a process of using Design-Build and Construction Management services as an alternative to procuring capital projects through competitive sealed ... -
Robots in Inspection and Monitoring of Buildings and Infrastructure: A Systematic Review
(MDPI, 2023-02-10)Regular inspection and monitoring of buildings and infrastructure, that is collectively called the built environment in this paper, is critical. The built environment includes commercial and residential buildings, roads, ... -
Intelligence Complements from the Built Environment: A Review of CPS-Enabled Smart Buildings for Cognitively Declined Occupants
(2022-01-01)Traditionally, caregivers, whether formal or informal, have taken the responsibility of providing assistance and care to the patients with cognitive decline. However, both the caregivers and the patients are subjected to ... -
Toward a Data-Driven Template Model for Quadrupedal Locomotion
(IEEE, 2022-07-01)This work investigates a data-driven template model for trajectory planning of dynamic quadrupedal robots. Many state-of-the-art approaches involve using a reduced-order model, primarily due to computational tractability. ... -
Real-Time and Remote Construction Progress Monitoring with a Quadruped Robot Using Augmented Reality
(MDPI, 2022-11-19)Construction progress monitoring involves a set of inspection tasks with repetitive in-person observations on the site. The current manual inspection process in construction is time-consuming, inefficient and inconsistent ... -
Energy and exergy simulation analysis and comparative study of solar ejector cooling system using TRNSYS for two climates of Iran
(Elsevier, 2022-08)This paper addresses hourly simulation of 3.5 kW Solar Ejector Cooling System (SECS) using R600a and R290 hydrocarbon refrigerants for application in two office buildings in semi-arid and hot-humid climates of Iran. During ... -
Linking life cycle BIM data to a facility management system using Revit Dynamo
(Sciendo, 2022-01-01)Facility management (FM) requires multidisciplinary activities, and thus has extensive information requirements. Much of that information is created during the design, construction, and commissioning phases of a project. ...
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