Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Conference

Hosted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia March 26-28, 2014

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress:

Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Hussein Abaza	Southern Poly University	Clinton Aigbavboa	University of Johannesburg
Neslihan Alp	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga	Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead
M Kamran Ansari	Al-Amaar	Afsaneh Ardehali	University of Cincinnati
Deniz ARTAN ILTER	Istanbul Technical University	Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore
Somayeh Asadi	Texas A&M University-Kingsville	Baabak Ashuri	Georgia Tech
Dennis Audo	Pittsburg State University	Salman Azhar	Auburn University
Philip Barlow	California Polytechnic State University	Howard Bashford	Arizona State University
David Batie	East Carolina University	Ali Beheshti	Louisiana State University
Yvan Beliveau	Virginia Tech	William Bender	Central Washington University
Brad Benhart	Purdue University	Stuart Bernstein	University of Nebraska
Ken Bertolini	South Dakota State University	Suchismita Bhattacharjee	University of Oklahoma
Keith Bisharat	California State University - Sacramento	Richard Boser	Illinois State University
David Boyd	Birmingham City University	Curtis Bradford	University of Central Missouri
Jim Bradtmueller	Northern Kentucky University	Hollis Bray	University of Louisiana at Monroe
Tanyel Bulbul	Virginia tech	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	Yunfeng Chen	Purdue University
Nicholas Chileshe	University of South Australia	Abdol Chini	University of Florida
Ifte Choudhury	Texas A&M University	Jay Christofferson	Brigham Young University
Shima Clarke	Clemson University	Caroline Clevenger	Colorado 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	mohamed diab	Minnesota State University
David Dillon	Northern New Mexico College	Jing Du	Michigan State University
Lacey Duckworth	US Army Corps of Engineers	Philip Dunn	University of Maine
Todd Dunn	Rochester Institute of Technology	Francis T Edum-Fotwe	Loughborough University
Sydney Eisenmann Parkhe	McCarthy Building Companies	Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University
Rod Elder	Kansas State University	Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University
Chad Everhart	Appalachian State University	Clifton Farnsworth	Brigham Young University
Rizwan Farooqui	Florida International University	C. Ben Farrow	Auburn University
Damian Fearon	Liverpool John Moores University	Mark Federle	Marquette University
Bruce Fischer	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	Doug Forbes	Whole Life Consultants Ltd
Mohsen Foroughi Sabzevar	Pennsylvania State University	Ghada Gad	Bowling Green State University
Lu Gao	University of Houston	Shang Gao	University of Newcastle (Singapore campus)
Helen Garmston	Plymouth University	Richard Gebken	Missouri State University
Bruce Gehrig	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	Burl George III	Bradley University
Masoud Gheisari	Mississippi State University	Somik Ghosh	University of Oklahoma
Dennis Gier	California State University, Chico	Morten Gjerde	Victoria University of Wellington
Scott Glick	Colorado State University	Ricki Goode	John Laing Infrastructure Services
Chris Gordon	Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville	Sterling Graham	Swinerton Builders
Angela Guggemos	Colorado State University	David Gunderson	Washington State University
Suat Gunhan	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Mary Hardie	University of Western Sydney
Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo
Mohammad Heidarinejad	Pennsylvania 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	The State University of New York	Mark Hutchings	Brigham Young University
Brad Hyatt	California State University, Fresno	Javier Irizarry	Georgia Institute of Technology
Aini Jaapar	Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia	Francois Jacobs	California Baptist University
James Jenkins	Purdue University	Wayne Jensen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Barry Jones	California Polytechnic State University	James Jones	Ball State University
Ahmad Jrade	University of Ottawa	Chuanjing JU	University of Hong Kong
Younghan Jung	Georgia Southern University	Sittimont Kanjanabootra	The University of Newcastle
Jacob Kashiwagi	Arizona State University	Doris Kemp	University of Southern Mississippi
Ravindar Kumar Khiani	NED University of Engineering and Technology	Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington
Daphene Koch	Purdue University	Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University
Scott Kramer	Auburn University	Suneerat Kusalasai	Kasetsart University
Sandeep Langar	University of Southern Mississippi	Sarel Lavy	Texas A&M University
Tom Leathem	Mississippi State University	Namhun Lee	Central Connecticut State University
Sangwook Lee	Texas Tech University	Junshan Liu	Auburn University
Thomas Logan	Kansas State University	Carla Lopez del Puerto	Colorado State University
Brian Loss	Purdue College of Technology	Yujie Lu	University of Maryland
Greg Lucado	Philadelphia University	Jason Lucas	Clemson University
Marcel Maghiar	Georgia Southern University	Don Mah	Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Tarek Mahfouz	Ball State University	Gustavo Maldonado	Georgia Southern University
William Manion	The University of Maine	David Martin	Central Washington University
Rehan Masood	The University of Lahore	Andrew McCoy	Virginia Tech
Tamera McCuen	University of Oklahoma	Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University
Pavan Meadati	Southern Polytechnic State University	Sonya Meekel	Dublin Institute of Technology
Babak Memarian	Arizona State University	Mike Mezo	Ball State University
Kevin Miller	Brigham Young University	Richard Miller	Ohio Northern University
Anthony Mills	Deakin University	Thomas Mills	Virginia Tech
Rebecca Mirsky	Boise State University	Norsiah Mohamad	University Technology MARA (UiTM)
M Fadhil Mohammad	UniversityTechnology MARA, Malaysia	Atefeh Mohammadpour	The PennSylvania State University
Brian Moore	Associated Schools of Construction	Nick Morton	Birmingham City University
Kia Mostaan	Georgia Institute of Technology	Larry Muszynski	University of Florida
Abid Nadeem	Qatar University	Isabelina Nahmens	Louisiana State University
Mohammad Najafi	The University of Texas at Arlington	Sachi Nekkanti	Independent Infrastructure Management Consultant
Tang-Hung Nguyen	California State University - Long Beach	Reed Nielsen	Brigham Young University - Idaho
Yan Ning	The university of Hong Kong	Vera Novak	Virginia Tech
Seth O'Brien	Pittsburg State University	Esther Obonyo	University of Florida
Grace Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria	Stephen Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University
Svetlana Olbina	University of Florida	Alex Opoku	London South Bank University
Daryl Orth	Northern Kentucky University	Emeka Efe Osaji	The ENERGY GLOBE Foundation and World Award for Sustainability
James Otter	Pittsburg State University	Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University
Sivakumar Palaniappan	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Pat Pannell	South Dakota State
John Patterson	Norwich University	Andrew Payne	Indiana State University
Forest Peterson	Stanford University	Don Phillippi	Kansas State University
Christine Piper	Clemson University	Philip Warren Plugge	Central Washington University
James Pocock	U. S. Air Force Academy	Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar	VNIT
Randy Rapp	Purdue University	Abbas Rashidi	Georgia Institute of Technology
Justin Reginato	California State University, Sacramento	Georg Reichard	Virginia Tech
Matthew Reyes	University of Oklahoma	Mike Riley	Liverpool John Moores University
Thomas Rogers	Northern Arizona University	Tyson Rupnow	Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Richard Ryan	University of Oklahoma	Boong Yeol Ryoo	Texas A&M University
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	Bolivar Senior	Colorado State University
Begum Sertyesilisik	Liverpool John Moores 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
Dianne Slattery	Missouri State University	Bruce Smith	Auburn University
Gary Smith	North Dakota State University	Tulio Sulbaran	University of Southern Mississippi
Kenneth Sullivan	Arizona State University	Scott Sumner	Wentworth Institute of Technology
Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University	Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University
Mark Tatum	Auburn University	Linda Thomas-Mobley	New School of Architectutre and Design
Derek Thurnell	Unitec Institute of Technology	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
Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez	Colorado State University	Erin Vitale	SUNY Alfred
Russell Walters	University of Florida	Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato
Gayan Wedawatta	Aston University	Blake Wentz	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Anne Werner	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Aled Williams	University of Salford
Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University	Sing Sing Wong	University College of Technology Sarawak
Jeong Han Woo	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Ronald Woolsey	University of Central Missouri
Joseph Wright	University of Wisconsin-Stout	Wei Wu	Fresno State
Haiyan Xie	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Junli Yang	University of Westminster
Saman Yarmohammadi	Georgia Institute of Technology	Samaneh Zolfagharian	Georgia Institute of Technology
Jian Zuo	University of South Australia

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