Browsing by Author "Lavy, Sarel"
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Ellefson, Sven Markus (2020-12-01)Facility Condition Assessments are a tool for Facility Managers to assess the maintenance needs of facilities and installed equipment and plan sustainment, restoration, and modernization activities. As the use of these ...
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Tupe, Harshavardhan Vikas (2017-05-08)Safety remains a major challenge in the construction industry throughout the world. Recent government statistics have revealed a high rate of fatalities in the U.S. construction industry. This study investigates the root ...
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Arenas Bermudez, Javier Eduardo (2016-08-02)Inspection of cracks on the surface of tall structures including chimneys, towers, containment buildings, and other cylindrical shapes is executed by visual monitoring to some extent, for which skilled field crews often ...
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Madhani, Himanshu 1986- (2012-11-29)Building Information Modeling (BIM) has changed the ways buildings are designed and constructed. Along with design and construction, operation and maintenance of the built facility is also gaining importance in the ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Lavy, Sarel (2018-03-15)Sustainability has been defined by various institutions as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. This is a soft qualitative definition. It has ...
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Freeman, Janice (2013-04-29)Commercial buildings are among the largest consumers of energy. In an attempt to control and reduce operating expenses, building owners and organizations leasing commercial space are pursuing energy efficiency measures ...
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Jawadekar, Salil (2012-10-19)This study investigates the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and COBie for Facility Management on three projects where these concepts were used. Factors which affect these concepts are identified through a ...
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Singh, Nishith (2017-08-01)Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been established as standard in the Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry. The ubiquity of the platform has significantly changed the way AEC industry works. BIM ...
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Ferrer Garcia, Eduardo R (2014-07-24)This study compares perceptions of facility managers on green roof attributes and barriers for their implementation. The population under study were the four IFMA chapters of the State of Texas (Austin, Dallas-Fort-Worth, ...
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The Content and Visibility of Green Building Practices on Commercial Construction Company Websites Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Lavy, Sarel; Jogunoori, Pushkin (2018-03-15)The number of buildings being erected using sustainable principles has risen, in part due, to environmentally conscious consumers and government incentives. For construction companies wanting to provide green building ...
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Hasler, Mitchell Dean (2016-08-08)Modern construction presents various challenges for both clients and contractors with regards to the delivery of a successful project. This is due to the increasing complexity in design and the involvement of multiple ...
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Nixon, Jerri Lynn (2015-08-07)Public school construction represents a significant portion of all construction spending, ranging 7 percent to 9.5 percent annually from 2008-2013. This study sought to answer four essential questions regarding replacement ...
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Rincon Fonseca, Jorge Luis (2017-05-05)Lean Construction (LC) has proven to be beneficial for the productivity of individual projects; however, its impact on the industry has not been significant. One reason affecting the performance of LC is the self-interested ...
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Gompa Pranathi (2018-05-09)Management theories have been ignored by the construction industry for quite some time. Though there has been a significant impact of management on other fields, construction has never stepped up to embed them into the ...
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Castelo Branco, Cristiano Ribeiro (2009-05-15)This research consists of an investigation on the incidence of residential construction waste in Texas. Construction waste has proved to have a negative effect on the economic health of construction companies and on the ...
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Sen, Tapajyoti (2010-07-14)Load factors are an important simplification of electrical energy use data and depend on the ratio of average demand to peak demand. Based on operating hours of a facility they serve as an important benchmarking tool for ...
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Venkatraj, Varusha (2019-04-05)Buildings are known to consume around 48% of the world’s annual energy in their construction, operation and maintenance causing significant damage to the environment due to the resultant carbon emissions. During their ...
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Hernandez Saenz, Maria Alejandra (2017-06-21)Porous Graded Asphalts (PGA) are thin layers utilized on top of conventional pavements that are characterized for containing high air void contents (AV) (usually larger than 18%) which results in high drainability; this ...
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Song, Tao (2018-07-31)Facility data are essential for any efficient facilities management and operations practices. However, due to the complexity and massive amount of information, interoperability is an important issue in facilities management. ...
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Wheeler, Daniel G (2017-12-09)Construction firms are in one of the fiercest competitive industries in existence. These firms, like most businesses, operate towards the primary objective of making money. Financial strategy is thought to be a critical ...