Browsing by Author "Rybkowski, Zofia"
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Neeraj, Anush (2016-05-04)Simulations and lean project case studies have appeared in academic publications for over two decades. Yet novices to Lean Construction have expressed frustration over an inability to make mental connections between the ...
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Davis, Sheyenne (2022-04-21)The residential building market has long been dominated by concrete floor systems due to their shallow depth, which allows for more floors in multi-story buildings. However, hot-rolled asymmetric I-beams, or A-shapes, are ...
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Jahangiri, Bardia (2016-05-05)The construction industry generates a substantial amount of solid waste. Cutting building materials into smaller pieces to fit the design is one of the sources of waste in new construction. This type of waste is known as ...
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Liu, Yang (2017-08-02)Monitoring activities on a construction jobsite is one of the most important tasks that a construction management team performs every day. Construction management teams monitor activities to ensure that a construction ...
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Kamranzadeh, Amineh (2012-11-30)This study seeks to explore the predictors of female project managers’ salary in the construction industry, and to analyze their impacts on determining the salary. Experience, age, marital status, motherhood, having children ...
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Yasmin, Farhana (2017-07-26)The value of residential properties apparently depends on a number of variables such as the size of the property, number of rooms, types of construction materials used, etc. However, the external attributes, for instance, ...
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Lee, Se Yeon (2016-07-13)This research concerns teaching cost as an integral design determinant during architectural foundation design education. It is an assumption of this research that most design students are encouraged to provide unique but ...
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Singh, Sachin Kumar (2016-05-03)IInteroperability is of high significance in the U.S. construction industry because most construction projects demand multi-disciplinary team efforts that combine inputs from several stakeholders throughout the building ...
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Azizkhani, Mehdi (2019-04-05)The purpose of this research is to examine the degree of adoption and education of the concepts of natural systems for heating, cooling, and lighting (i.e., passive systems) versus artificial/mechanical systems (i.e., ...
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Luhan, Gregory Anthony (2016-08-29)The design of high-performance, sustainable, built environments in architectural practice is becoming more collaborative, and the demands on architectural education to provide measurable learning outcomes that more ...
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Kim, Hyoungsub (2018-01-09)The goal of this research is to enable designers to evaluate the performance of Climate-Adaptive Building Envelopes (CABE) to make better decisions at the conceptual design stage. This goal was accomplished by delivering ...
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Bhagat, Nikita Deepak (2018-05-08)This study aimed to develop and test an environmentally friendly, easily deployable, and affordable façade solution for socio-economically challenged populations of the world. The façade system would modulate air velocity ...
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Ashtab, Milad (2023-01-04)Construction companies struggle with their hiring plans and react to economic shifts afterwards, resulting in unnecessary layoffs and over-hirings. A model that forecasts future construction hiring can help adjust hiring ...
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Tiwari, Shashank (2013-08-01)The state transportation agencies (STAs) in the United States are mandated by federal rule to carry out work-zone impact assessment for highway rehabilitation projects. The work zone impact assessment requires calculating ...
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Lagoo, Nishi (2012-07-16)A major challenge faced by project managers is balancing the variables of scope, cost, and schedule. Changes in scope usually result in cost/schedule overruns. Variance in either or both of them creates disorder (typically ...
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Bullen, Jason Anthony (2020-07-17)This study seeks to enable reducing initial embodied energy by decreasing the use of material and other resources on construction sites. The main goal is to identify and rank factors related to site logistics, which may ...
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Martinez Prieto, Andres (2015-11-18)The aluminum-framed curtain wall is one of the most applied building cladding systems due to its versatility and reasonable costs for low to high-rise constructions. The curtain wall system demands high-quality control and ...
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Kalantari Hematabadi, Seyed Saleh (2014-08-20)In today’s architecture and construction industry, there is a growing agreement that the input of facility management professionals (FMs) can be a vital resource during the architectural design process. FMs are responsible ...
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Mansoori, Maryam (2023-01-17)Situated at the intersection of architectural design and material engineering, this dissertation looks into material-driven adaptive design (MDAD) as an alternative to the prevailing paradigm of mechanical-based adaptation. ...
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Ramadoss, Sivasakthivel (2018-04-30)Historic buildings have always been facing severe threats of destruction. Historic buildings are the physical links to our past, and help in forming and imprinting a cultural memory within us. However, when a building gets ...