Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 47th Annual International Conference

Hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, NE April 6-9, 2011

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Hussein Abaza	Southern Poly University	Yong Han Ahn	East Carolina University
Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead	Leonard Anderson	Wentworth Institute of Technology
M Kamran Ansari	Al-Amaar	Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore
Dennis Audo	Pittsburg State University	Marcelo Azambuja	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Salman Azhar	Auburn University	Bill Badger	Arizona State University
Gouranga Banik	Southern Polytechnic State University	Philip Barlow	California Polytechnic State University
Ismail Basha	Georgia Southern University	Howard Bashford	Arizona State University
David Batie	East Carolina University	Dennis Bausman	Clemson University
Yvan Beliveau	Virginia Tech	William Bender	Central Washington University
Brad Benhart	Purdue University	Charles Berryman	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Suchismita Bhattacharjee	Ball State University	Keith Bisharat	California State University - Sacramento
Richard Boser	Illinois State University	Hollis Bray	University of Louisiana at Monroe
Richard Bruce	Missouri State University	Kevin Burr	Brigham Young University
Richard Burt	Auburn University	Jim Carr	University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bilge Gokhan Celik	Roger Williams University	Eric Chan	Deakin University
Kibert Charles	University of Florida	Qian Chen	The Ohio State University
Nicholas Chileshe	University of South Australia	Thanwadee Chinda	Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University
Abdol Chini	University of Florida	Ifte Choudhury	Texas A&M University
Jay Christofferson	Brigham Young University	Shima Clarke	Clemson University
Casey Cline	Boise State University	Wesley Crawford	Purdue
Paul Crovella	suny-esf	Muge Mukaddes Darwish	Texas Tech University
Enrico De Angelis	Politecnico di Milano	David Dillon	NC A&T University
Philip Dunn	University of Maine	John Dye	Florida International University (retired)
Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University	Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University
Chad Everhart	Appalachian State University	Morteza Farajian	University of Maryland
Rizwan Farooqui	Florida International University	C. Ben Farrow	Auburn University
Mark Federle	Marquette University	Yingbin Feng	National University of Singapore
Bruce Fischer	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Sean P. Foley	Northern Kentucky University
Charles Gains	Mesa State College	Bruce Gehrig	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Amine Ghanem	California State University Northridge	Somik Ghosh	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Morten Gjerde	Victoria University of Wellington	Scott Glick	Colorado State University
Chris Gordon	Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville	Denise Gravitt	Western Illinois University
Angela Guggemos	Colorado State University	David Gunderson	Washington State University
Suat Gunhan	The University of Texas at San Antonio	John Hannon	The University of Southern Mississippi
Mary Hardie	University of Western Sydney	Paul Harmon	University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo
THEODORE C HAUPT	Mississippi State University	Michael Hein	Auburn University
Paul Holley	Auburn University	Lisa Holliday	University of Oklahoma
Bryan Hubbard	Purdue University	Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York
Rafaat Hussein	SUNY	Mark Hutchings	Brigham Young University
Seokyon Hwang	Lamar University	Ben Ilozor	Eastern Michigan University
Javier Irizarry	Georgia Institute of Technology	Aini Jaapar	Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia
James Jenkins	Purdue University	Wayne Jensen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yi Jiang	Purdue University	James Jones	Ball State University
Dean Kashiwagi	Arizona State University	Jacob Kashiwagi	Arizona State University
Doris Kemp	University of Southern Mississippi	Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington
Clifford Kinard	Western Carolina University	Kraig Knutson	Arizona State University
Daphene Koch	Purdue University	Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University
Scott Kramer	Auburn University	Felix Le Roux	University of Pretoria, South Africa
Sangwook Lee	Texas Tech University	Jeffrey Lew	Purdue
Ke Li	University of Georgia	Junshan Liu	Auburn University
Carla Lopez del Puerto	Colorado State University	Huanqing Lu	East Carolina University
Shu-Ling Lu	The University of Reading	Greg Lucado	Philadelphia University
Whitney Lutey	Montana State University	Marcel Maghiar	Arizona State University
Tarek Mahfouz	Ball State University	Gustavo Maldonado	Georgia Southern University
Ludwig Martin	Cape Peninsula University of Technology	Kris Mattila	Michigan Technological University
Andrew McCoy	Virginia Tech	Tamera McCuen	University of Oklahoma
Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University	Anne McGowan-Schooler	Texas A&M University/College of Architecture
Bill McManus	University of Oklahoma	Stephen Mead	Northern Arizona University
Pavan Meadati	Southern Polytechnic State University	Mike Mezo	Ball State University
Ronald Miers	Central Connecticut State University	Kevin Miller	Brigham Young University
Anthony Mills	RMIT University	Thomas Mills	Virginia Tech
Rebecca Mirsky	Boise State University	M Fadhil Mohammad	UniversityTechnology MARA, Malaysia
Brian Moore	Georgia Southern University	Larry Muszynski	University of Florida
Abid Nadeem	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Isabelina Nahmens	Louisiana State University
Mohammad Najafi	The University of Texas at Arlington	Sachi Nekkanti	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ("Virginia Tech")
Tang-Hung Nguyen	California State University - Long Beach	Reed Nielsen	Brigham Young University - Idaho
MaryEllen Nobe	Colorado State University	Seth O'Brien	Pittsburg State University
Esther Obonyo	University of Florida	Paul Oppenheim	University of Florida
Daryl Orth	Northern Kentucky University	James Otter	Pittsburg State University
Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University	Sivakumar Palaniappan	Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Pat Pannell	South Dakota State	Kamalesh Panthi	Florida International University
Borinara Park	Illinois State University	Jason Peschel	Washington State University
Forest Peterson	Stanford University	Christine Piper	Clemson University
Pardis Pishdad	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)	Philip Warren Plugge	Central Washington University
James Pocock	U. S. Air Force Academy	Pathmeswaran Raju	University of Salford
Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar	VNIT	Randy Rapp	Purdue University
Justin Reginato	California State University, Sacramento	Georg Reichard	Virginia Tech
Mike Riley	Liverpool John Moores University	Thomas Rogers	Northern Arizona University
Les Ruddock	University of Salford	Tyson Rupnow	Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Richard Ryan	University of Oklahoma	Carlos Salgado	University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Anoop Santtineni	Auburn University	John Schaufelberger	University of Washington
John Schwarz	CSU Chico	Lloyd Scott	Dublin Institute of Technology
Bolivar Senior	Colorado State University	Begum Sertyesilisik
Mark Shaurette	Purdue University	Zhigang Shen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Pramen Shrestha	University of Nevada Las Vegas	Scott Shuler	Colorado State
Jessica Siva	RMIT University	Bruce Smith	Auburn University
Gary Smith	North Dakota State University	James Smith	Texas A&M
James Sommerville	Glasgow Caledonian University	Jongchul Song	North Dakota State University
Tulio Sulbaran	University of Southern Mississippi	Kenneth Sullivan	Arizona State University
Mojtaba Taiebat	Virginia Tech	Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University
Mark Tatum	Auburn University	Linda Thomas-Mobley	New School of Architectutre and Design
John Tingerthal	Northern Arizona University	Kenneth Tiss	State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Michael Tramel	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Chika Udeaja	Northumbria University
Philip Udo-Inyang	Temple University	Dinh Van Hiep	Hanoi University of Civil Engineering
Erin Vitale	SUNY Alfred	Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato
Tim Wentz	Nebraska	Anne Werner	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Aled Williams	University of Salford	Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University
Jeong Han Woo	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Paul Woods	Texas A&M University
Ronald Woolsey	University of Central Missouri	Haiyan Xie	University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Junli Yang	University of Westminster

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