Is It Necessary to Compromise Engineering Ethics to Remain Competitive in Today's Marketplace?
The test of time has shown that by maintaining high ethical values, one can succeed in any marketplace, no matter how competitive, says the winner of the 1993 Daniel W. Mead Essay Contest...
Flood Control vs. Flood Management
For the last 130 years, flood policy in the U.S. has been dominated by the belief that floods can be controlled by structural methods, such as levees, dikes and embankments. These efforts...
Graphical-Based Productivity Transient Investigation Using DISCO
Construction operations involve complex resource interactions and are typically performed in the field with exogenous factors such as inclement weather conditions and equipment breakdowns....
A PC-Based Stochastic Project Scheduling and Costing Module
Project delays and cost overruns are very common in construction industry. This may be back-traced significantly to non or ill treatment of uncertainties that overwhelm construction projects....
SCHEREC: SCHedule RECovery System
Creating a revised plan requires experience and significant time. To lessen the effort involved, a knowledge-based system named SCHEREC (SCHedule RECovery) was developed which suggests...
An Integrated Approach To Repetitive Construction Planning
Repetitive construction projects are unsuited for the use of the Critical Path Method (CPM) for their scheduling. Statistical simulation techniques offer a scheduling alternative, but...
Managing Uncertainty in Project Planning and Execution: Introduction and Overview
This paper provides an introduction and overview of topics that are relevant to project design and management under conditions of uncertainty, with an emphasis on civil engineering projects....
Quantification of Cost Uncertainties Using Neural Network Technique
This paper describes the development of a neural network system for forecasting cost escalation in construction. The input of the neural network system consists of factors that have an...
Interpretive and Modelling Problems of Risk and Uncertainty in Bidding Techniques
This paper considers the implementation of policy, strategic and tactical bidding and the processes of devolution of the risk and uncertainty in a corporate management context....
Range Estimating -- User-Friendly Risk Analysis
This paper introduces the reader to Range Estimating - a user-friendly decision technology for project cost risk analysis. Although developed with the non-statistician in mind, Range Estimating...
Startplan: Producing Schedule Templates Using IRMA
The Information Reference Model for AEC (IRMA) is a generic information modeling standard to support computer-integrated construction (CIC). Although IRMA is still in a conceptual stage,...
Construction Problem Solving in a Cooperative Distributed Agent Environment
This paper outlines the research being undertaken by the authors to determine how experts develop solutions to construction problems in a cooperative distributed agent environment which...
Intentions and Credences ? An Australian Approach to Computerised Building Regulation
In the past, computer representation of building regulations has addressed a series of prescriptive requirements. Compliance with each requirement was essential and the only relationship...
State and Resource Based Construction Process Simulation
Stroboscope is a programming language for construction process simulation. The programming language provides access to the state of the simulation and to the properties of resources. It...
Multi-Objective Optimization of Construction Schedules
This paper focuses on the multi-objective deterministic and stochastic modelling and optimization of construction tasks scheduling. Of particular importance is a frequency need to satisfy...
Using Computer Programs to Develop As-Built Schedules
An as-built schedule documents how a project was built over time. It indicates the start and the end dates of each activity during the construction. This schedule is often used to evaluate...
Decision-Making Paradigm for Risk Assessment of Hazardous Wastes Using Fuzzy Sets
This paper summarizes the development of a risk assessment framework to provide risk-cost policy alternatives to prioritize remediation actions for hazardous wastes. The framework is a...
Managing Uncertainty in Environmental Remediation Project Planning
The cleanup operations in environmental remediation (ER) process, a relatively new area of opportunity for the construction industry, is often avoided due to its perceived high risks....
Linguistic Analysis of Risk in Project Planning
Construction risk analysis models are mainly based on quantitative techniques which require numerical data. However, in many cases, the available information related to uncertainty factors...
Quality of Map Data in Geographic Information Systems
Local government engineers wanting to take advantage of computer aided design (CAD) and geographic information system (GIS) need to understand the quality and accuracy of digital base...
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