Browsing by Author "Yan, Wei"
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Porwal, Vishal (2012-02-14)In recent years projects have increasingly used Last Planner System (LPS) in building construction. However project managers still struggle with figuring out how the LPS could be applied on their specific projects. One ...
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Shaghaghian, Zohreh (2022-11-09)In Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Building Information Modeling (BIM), etc., students suffer from non-proficient use of the modeling software due to a lack of mathematical knowledge. Deficient knowledge and skills may lead ...
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Karimimansoob, Vahideh (2023-08-09)Heavy Construction equipment, such as excavators, scrapers, and dump trucks, is often a necessary component in many construction projects influencing the successful completion of a construction project. However, accidents ...
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Jain, Nidhi Mahavirprasad (2012-02-14)Although many efforts have been exerted to increase safety on construction sites, it has never been easy to run a construction project with zero accidents. Previous research indicated that lessons learned from previous ...
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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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Multi-Objective Optimization of a Building's Embodied Energy, Operational Energy, and Embodied Water Haghighi, Omid (2022-05-03)Buildings account for approximately 40% of annual energy consumption and 16% of annual water withdrawals globally over their life cycle. Moreover, most building designs consider only the operational energy use of buildings ...
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Altabtabai, Jawad A S R B (2017-12-11)This research addressed the need for a new design review technology and method to express the tangible and intangible qualities of architectural experience of parametric BIM-based design projects. The research produced an ...
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Kim, Jong Bum (2014-12-23)This research developed and evaluated the Parametric Urban Regulation Model (PURM) to represent urban regulations in parametric Building Information Modeling (BIM) and assess the development performances of urban regulations ...
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Physical Building Information Modeling for Solar Building Design and Simulation – Annual Report 2010 Yan, Wei; Haberl, Jeff; Clayton, Mark; Kim, Jong Bum; Alcocer, Jose Luis Bermudez; Jeong, Woon Seong; Kota, Sandeep (2010-11)
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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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Yenerim, Duygu (2014-12-08)Colonias, as an example of informal settlement development along north of U.S. – Mexico Border, are comprised of low-cost, self-built and -managed houses with lack of access to basic services. These settlements often have ...
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Gonen, Mehmet Ozgur (2017-05-10)In this dissertation, I present a modeling framework that provides modeling of 2D smooth meshes in arbitrary topology without any need for subdivision. In the framework, each edge of a quad face is represented by a smooth ...
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Yeon, Jaeheum (2017-04-03)Conventional methods for repairing damages to concrete pavement require a certain amount of time, regardless of the scale of the harm. The area must first be cleaned; this means that the damaged section must be separated ...
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Chou, Chieh (2019-04-10)Infrastructure is indispensable for modern society nowadays. However, infrastructure requires periodic inspections for maintenance purposes because of deterioration over time. Manual inspections would be labor-intensive ...
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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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Sabahi, Parsa (2012-02-14)It has been less than a decade that Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been used in construction industries. During this short period of time the application of this new modeling approach has increased significantly, ...
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Das, Pranab J.; McCarthy, Fiona; Vishnoi, Monika; Paria, Nandina; Gresham, Cathy; Li, Gang; Kachroo, Priyanka; Sudderth, A. Kendrick; Teague, Sheila; Love, Charles C.; Varner, Dickson D.; Chowdhary, Bhanu P.; Raudsepp, Terje; Yan, Wei (PloS One, 2013)
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Özener, Ozan Özener (2011-02-22)This research study posits that an altered educational approach to design studio can produce future professionals who apply Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the context of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) to execute ...
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Thompson, Darrell (2014-12-15)The research for this study investigated the correlation between the perceived usage of Building Information Modeling in Facilities Management and; the perceived training level of the FM personnel, the perceived specification ...
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Yang, Ying (2013-07-22)The sensitivity of the important inputs and the savings prediction function reliability for the WinAM 4.3 software is studied in this research. WinAM was developed by the Continuous Commissioning (CC) group in the Energy ...