INTRODUCTION: CHAPTER 1. Introduction to Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction IndustryTemitope Omotayo, Olabode E. Ogunmakinde, Temitope Egbelakin, and Adebayo Sojobi. SECTION A - TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN CONSTRUCTION CHAPTER 2. Global Application of Digital...

"This book provides an overview of how the movement towards implementing a new building safety regime has unfolded over the last three years and details what still needs to be done if residents are to feel safe and be safe in their own homes."

This book explores the relationship between the circular economy and the building technologies within the quintuple helix innovation model. The main question the book answers is whether and how the conversion of sustainable construction processes can be a powerful engine of innovation for the...

Chapter 1. Building in Emergency: Low-Tech Driven Innovations -- Chapter 2. Technologies for Building After Disaster: A Critical Review -- Chapter 3. Beyond Emergency, Toward Circular Design: Building Low Tech -- Chapter 4. Assessing the Circular Potential. Design, Build, Living Reversible --...

Firms use repeated partnerships to gain the benefits of shared experience such as improved coordination, collaboration, and adaptation. However, there are downsides to partnering repeatedly, including vulnerability to opportunistic partners upon whom the firm becomes dependent, muted efficiency...

Gerade im öffentlichen Hochbau scheint es vermehrt zu Bauzeit- und vor allem Kostenüberschreitungen zu kommen, die auch regelmäßig vom Bundesrechnungshof beanstandet werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet die vorliegende Arbeit die haushaltsrechtlichen Grundlagen bei der Veranschlagung...

Gerade im öffentlichen Hochbau scheint es vermehrt zu Bauzeit- und vor allem Kostenüberschreitungen zu kommen, die auch regelmäßig vom Bundesrechnungshof beanstandet werden. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet die vorliegende Arbeit die haushaltsrechtlichen Grundlagen bei der Veranschlagung...

The civil and environmental engineering disciplines have identified the levels of knowledge about sustainability that are desirable for students to achieve as they graduate with a bachelor’s degree, as well as sustainability-related competencies to be obtained during a master’s degree, and...

Are there substantial changes in the relationship between women and engineering in recent times? This is a fascinating question to explore especially since it has been so little studies especially in India. This study attempts to understand women engineers in India, situating them within the...

A hedonic pricing model estimates the effect on house prices of the stricter 2002 Florida Building Code for three geographical areas with varying degrees of risk exposure in the Jacksonville, Florida area. Results show that houses built under the new, stricter code sold for an average premium of...

No-notice incidents occur with no advance notice of time and place. Family members may be separated when a no-notice incident strikes during the daytime. They may seek to gather the household members first and evacuate as a unit, and parents may head in the âwrongâ direction to pick up their...

Advanced pipeline risk management is contingent on accurately locating the buried pipelines, the milieu, and also the physical condition of the pipelines. The web-based and geospatially enabled tool presented in this thesis provides an improved way to assess the risks associated with the failure...

As critical components of infrastructure management systems, after enforcement of the Government Accounting Standards Boards statement 34 (GASB 34), development of a valuation approach and optimal rehabilitation and replacement polices (R&R policies) for infrastructure assets become overriding...

The transportation sector is a significant contributor to current global climatic problems, one of the most prominent problems that today's society faces. In this dissertation, three complementary problems are addressed to support emissions reduction efforts by providing tools to help reduce...

Due to the growing concerns with climate change and energy supply, Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), which uses the guaranteed future utility savings to repay the initial renovation investments, becomes increasingly popular. However, most Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) set the savings...

This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is implementing, strategies, policies, and plans...

The functioning of communities and industries depend on infrastructure network. Daily activities (such as production, shipping, supply chain, etc. for industries and commuting for work, business, schooling, etc. for communities) are performed efficiently with the help of infrastructure network....

Critical infrastructure play an important role in supporting industries and communities and also responding against natural disasters to reduce their impacts (i.e., routes and bridges for evacuation and public buildings for sheltering). Due to global warming, there is an increase in the...

Water management worldwide is evolving towards integrating social, economic and environmental variables into the decision-making processes to increase the efficiency and sustainability of a decision's outcomes. This study aims to develop a system-of-systems decision support framework and a...

A key aspect of asset management is the determination of the performance level at which a standard intervention is to be applied. A profligate policy, where an intervention is applied when the asset is in a state of higher performance, would mean frequent and premature spending of agency funds...

Throughout the United States, state highway revenue, which is dominated by receipts from fuel taxes, has failed to keep up with expected investments required for infrastructure preservation and improvement. The reasons for this trend include the increasing fuel efficiency of vehicles, slowing of...

Extreme events over the past decade in the USA, ranging from the 9/11 terror attacks to the 2003 Northeast power blackout to the 2005 hurricanes, have highlighted the urgent need to understand the security, engineering and economic implications of the interdependencies among civil infrastructure...