Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 48th Annual International Conference

Hosted by Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK April 11-14, 2012

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
Clinton Aigbavboa	University of Johannesburg	Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead
M Kamran Ansari	Al-Amaar	Afsaneh Ardehali	University of Cincinnati
Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore	Alan Atalah	Bowling Green State University
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
Timothy Becker	Iowa State University	William Bender	Central Washington University
Brad Benhart	Purdue University	Stuart Bernstein	University of Nebraska
Charles Berryman	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Suchismita Bhattacharjee	Ball State University
Keith Bisharat	California State University - Sacramento	Richard Boser	Illinois State University
David Boyd	Birmingham City University	Hollis Bray	University of Louisiana at Monroe
Richard Bruce	Missouri State University	Cenk Budayan	Selcuk University
Kevin Burr	Brigham Young University	Richard Burt	Auburn University
David G. Carmichael	University of New South Wales	Jim Carr	University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Bilge Gokhan Celik	Roger Williams University	Eric Chan	Deakin University
Kibert Charles	University of Florida	Adi-Irfan Che-Ani	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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
Roger Chou	The University of Hong Kong	Ifte Choudhury	Texas A&M University
Jay Christofferson	Brigham Young University	Paul Chynoweth	University of Salford
Shima Clarke	Clemson University	Casey Cline	Boise State University
erich connell	East Carolina University	Nigel Craig	Glasgow Caledonian 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	Dennis Dorward	Pennsylvania College of Technology
Lacey Duckworth	US Army Corps of Engineers	Philip Dunn	University of Maine
John Dye	Florida International University (retired)	Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University
Rod Elder	Kansas State University	Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University
Bobby Ensminger	ULM	Chad Everhart	Appalachian State University
Rizwan Farooqui	Florida International University	C. Ben Farrow	Auburn University
Mark Federle	Marquette University	Yingbin Feng	National University of Singapore
Sean P. Foley	Northern Kentucky University	Doug Forbes	Whole Life Consultants Ltd
Charles Gains	Colorado Mesa University	Richard Gebken	Missouri State University
Bruce Gehrig	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Amine Ghanem	California State University Northridge
Masoud Gheisari	Georgia Institute of Technology	Somik Ghosh	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Dennis Gier	California State University, Chico	Morten Gjerde	Victoria University of Wellington
Scott Glick	Colorado State University	Chris Gordon	Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
Sterling Graham	HMH Builders	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	Marwa Hassan	Louisiana State University
Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo
Theodore C Haupt	Mississippi State University	Rita Hawkins	Missouri State University
Michael Hein	Auburn University	Eliya Henin	Nebraska University
Paul Holley	Auburn University	Lisa Holliday	University of Oklahoma
Bryan Hubbard	Purdue University	Rafaat Hussein	SUNY
Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York	Mark Hutchings	Brigham Young University
Seokyon Hwang	Lamar University	Brad Hyatt
Javier Irizarry	Georgia Institute of Technology	Zulhabri Ismail	Universiti Teknologi MARA
Aini Jaapar	Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia	Francois Jacobs	California Baptist University
James Jenkins	Purdue University	Wayne Jensen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yi Jiang	Purdue University	Barry Jones	California Polytechnic State University
James Jones	Ball State University	Ahmad Jrade	University of Ottawa
Chuanjing JU	University of Hong Kong	Dean Kashiwagi	Arizona State University
Jacob Kashiwagi	Arizona State University	Doris Kemp	University of Southern Mississippi
Ravindar Kumar Khiani	NED University of Engineering and Technology	Roger Killingsworth	Auburn University
Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington	Clifford Kinard	Western Carolina University
Kraig Knutson	Arizona State University	Daphene Koch	Purdue University
Baba-Adama Kolo	Ahmadu Bello University	Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University
Scott Kramer	Auburn University	Suneerat Kusalasai	Kasetsart University
Gregory Lasker	Purdue	Felix Le Roux	University of Pretoria, South Africa
Namhun Lee	East Carolina University	Ke Li	University of Georgia
Guangming Lin	National University of Singapore	Junshan Liu	Auburn University
Carla Lopez del Puerto	Colorado State University	Shu-Ling Lu	The University of Reading
Greg Lucado	Philadelphia University	Whitney Lutey	Montana State University
Marcel Maghiar	Georgia Southern University	Tarek Mahfouz	Ball State University
Gustavo Maldonado	Georgia Southern University	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	Pavan Meadati	Southern Polytechnic State University
Sonya Meekel	Dublin Institute of Technology	Babak Memarian	Arizona 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	Norsiah Mohamad	University Technology MARA (UiTM)
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
Timothy Odeyale	University of Lincoln	Greg Ohrn	Northern Arizona University
Stephen Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University	Svetlana Olbina	University of Florida
Daryl Orth	Northern Kentucky University	Emeka Osaji	University of Wolverhampton
James Otter	Pittsburg State University	Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University
Sivakumar Palaniappan	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Wei Pan	Plymouth University
Pat Pannell	South Dakota State	Shekhar Patil	Minnesota 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	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	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 Schmidt	Ferris State University	John Schwarz	CSU Chico
Lloyd Scott	Dublin Institute of Technology	Bolivar Senior	Colorado State University
Begum Sertyesilisik		Ronald Sessoms	East Carolina University
Jessica Sharp	The University of Southern Mississippi	Mark Shaurette	Purdue University
Zhigang Shen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Pramen Shrestha	University of Nevada Las Vegas
Scott Shuler	Colorado State	Bhzad Sidawi	University of Dammam, College of Architecture
Khalid Siddiqi	Southern Polytechnic State University	David Sillars	Oregon State University
Jessica Siva	RMIT University	Bruce Smith	Auburn University
Gary Smith	North Dakota State University	Richa Srivastava	Unirac Inc
Tulio Sulbaran	University of Southern Mississippi	Kenneth Sullivan	Arizona State University
Scott Sumner	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Mojtaba Taiebat	Virginia Tech
Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University	Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University
Mark Tatum	Auburn University	Wellington Didibhuku Thwala	University of Johannesburg
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	Erin Vitale	SUNY Alfred
Russell Walters	University of Florida	Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato
Gayan Wedawatta	University of Salford	Tim Wentz	Nebraska
Anne Werner	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Aled Williams	University of Salford
Sing Sing Wong	Kolej Laila Taib	Joseph Wright	University of Wisconsin-Stout
Haiyan Xie	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Junli Yang	University of Westminster
Jian Zuo	University of South Australia

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