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A bid-unbalancing method for lowering a contractor's financial risk
(2008)
A method is presented for unbalancing bids and optimizing the allocation of overall project profits to individual activities by considering the financial parameters of a project (bid mark-up and projected cash flow), in ...
Toward automated generation of parametric BIMs based on hybrid video and laser scanning data
(2010)
Only very few constructed facilities today have a complete record of as-built information. Despite the growing use of Building Information Modelling and the improvement in as-built records, several more years will be ...
Study on Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services for Public Works: Case for Qualifications-Based Selection
(2003)
The findings of a recent study on the procurement of professional architectural and engineering (A/E) services in New York City are outlined in an attempt to evaluate some of the claims put forward by proponents and opponents ...
Water Network Assessment and Reliability Analysis by Use of Survival Analysis
(2011)
A holistic and sustainable strategy for the management of urban water distribution networks should be composed of two equally important pillars: (1) efficient methods for monitoring, repairing or replacing aging infrastructure, ...
Construction imitating ants: Resource-unconstrained scheduling with artificial ants
(2009-05)
The paper presents a methodology to arrive at critical path calculations in construction networks by imitating the natural selection processes utilized by real-life ants in search of shortest paths to a food source, and ...
Disorder considerations in resource-constrained scheduling
A method is presented for allocating resources to construction activities and for scheduling construction projects under resource constraints by considering the effects that such resource limitations may have on the tendency ...
Modeling and analysis of urban water distribution networks during intermittent water supply periods
(2016)
The paper presents a mathematical model that simulates the behavior of the urban water distribution networks (UWDN) during a period of intermittent water supply (IWS) and investigates the effects of such policies on the ...