Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 51st Annual International Conference

Hosted by Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas April 22-25, 2015

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress:

Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Henry Abanda	Oxford Brookes University	Hussein Abaza	Southern Poly University
Hamid Abdirad	University of Washington	Neslihan Alp	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead	M Kamran Ansari	Al-Amaar
Deniz Artan Ilter	Istanbul Technical University	Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore
Somayeh Asadi	Pennsylvania State University	Baabak Ashuri	Georgia Tech
Sherif Attallah	Ball State University	Dennis Audo	Pittsburg State University
Salman Azhar	Auburn University	William Baker	ISU
Philip Barlow	California Polytechnic State University	Howard Bashford	Arizona State University
David Batie	East Carolina University	Dennis Bausman	Clemson University
William Bender	University of Washington	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
Cenk Budayan	Selcuk University	Tanyel Bulbul	Virginia tech
Joseph Burgett	Clemson University	Richard Burt	Auburn University
Jim Carr	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Kibert Charles	University of Florida
V Paul C Charlesraj	RICS School of Built Environment	Qian Chen	The Ohio State University
Yunfeng Chen	Purdue 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	Caroline Clevenger	Colorado State University
Erich Connell	East Carolina University	Wesley Crawford	Purdue
Paul Crovella	SUNY-ESF	Muge Mukaddes Darwish	Texas Tech University
Enrico De Angelis	Politecnico di Milano	Mohamed Diab	Minnesota State University
Jing Du	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Philip Dunn	University of Maine
John Dye	Florida International University (retired)	Francis T Edum-Fotwe	Loughborough University
Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University	Safinaz ElDawody	Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation
Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University	Jonathan Elliott	Colorado State University
Hassan Emam	University of Bolton	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	Cristian Gaedicke	California State University, East Bay
Abdulkadir Ganah	University of Central Lancashire	Shang Gao	University of Newcastle (Singapore campus)
Richard Gebken	Missouri State University	Bruce Gehrig	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Burl George III	Bradley University	Amine Ghanem	Roger Williams 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	Carillion
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
Mohammed Hashem M. Mehany	Missouri State University	Fred Hasler	Kansas State University
Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo
Mohammad Heidarinejad	University of Maryland	Michele Herrmann	Mississippi State University
Lisa Holliday	University of Oklahoma	Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York
Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York	Mark Hutchings	Brigham Young University
Seokyon Hwang	Lamar 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	Yunyan Andrea Jia	Curtin University
Ruoyu Jin	The University of Nottingham Ningbo China	Barry Jones	California Polytechnic State University
James Jones	Ball State University	Chuanjing JU	University of Hong Kong
Younghan Jung	Georgia Southern University	Sittimont Kanjanabootra	The University of Newcastle
Dean Kashiwagi	Arizona State University	Jacob Kashiwagi	Arizona State University
Doris Kemp	University of Southern Mississippi	Ali Keyvanfar	Construction Research Centre, Construction Research Alliance
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
Boeing Laishram	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	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
Ke Li	University of Georgia	Xin Liang	Building and Real Estate
Thomas Logan	Kansas State University	Ka Leung Lok	Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong
Yujie Lu	National University of Singapore	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 Auckland
Jasper Mbachu	Massey University	Andrew McCoy	Virginia Tech
Steven McCrary	Lamar University	Tamera McCuen	University of Oklahoma
Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University	Bill McManus	University of Oklahoma
Stephen Mead	Northern Arizona University	Pavan Meadati	Southern Polytechnic State University
Sonya Meekel	Dublin Institute of Technology	Babak Memarian	InEight Inc.
Mike Mezo	Ball State University	Kevin Miller	Brigham Young University
Richard Miller	Ohio Northern University	Thomas Mills	Virginia Tech
Rebecca Mirsky	Boise State University	Joshua Mischung	Arizona State University
Norsiah Mohamad	University Technology MARA (UiTM)	M Fadhil Mohammad	UniversityTechnology MARA, Malaysia
Atefeh Mohammadpour		Atefeh Mohammadpour	The PennSylvania State University
Jeffrey M Molavi	University of Maryland ES	Brian Moore	Associated Schools of Construction
Nick Morton	Birmingham City University	Kia Mostaan	Georgia Institute of Technology
Larry Muszynski	University of Florida	Abid Nadeem	Nazarbayev University
Mohammad Najafi	The University of Texas at Arlington	Sachi Nekkanti	Independent Infrastructure Management Consultant
Quan Nguyen	National University of Civil Engineering, Hanoi, Vietnam	Reed Nielsen	Brigham Young University - Idaho
Yan Ning	The university of Hong Kong	MaryEllen Nobe	Colorado State University
Vera Novak	Virginia Tech	Seth O'Brien	Pittsburg State University
Esther Obonyo	University of Florida	Greg Ohrn	Northern Arizona University
Grace Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria	Svetlana Olbina	University of Florida
Alex Opoku	London South Bank University	Daryl Orth	Northern Kentucky University
James Otter	Pittsburg State University	Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University
Sivakumar Palaniappan	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Rogelio Palomera-Arias	University of Texas at San Antonio
Kamalesh Panthi	East Carolina University	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	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
Suresh Renukappa	University of Wolverhampton	Matthew Reyes	University of Oklahoma
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	Boong Yeol Ryoo	Texas A&M University
Ihab Saad	Northern Kentucky University	Carlos Salgado	University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Anoop Santtineni	Auburn University	John Schaufelberger	University of Washington
Alexander Schreyer	University of Massachusetts	Lloyd Scott	Dublin Institute of Technology
Bolivar Senior	Colorado State University	Mohsen Shahandashti	University of Texas at Arlington
Jessica Sharp	The University of Southern Mississippi	Mark Shaurette	Purdue University
Kishor Shrestha	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	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
Jake Smithwick	Arizona State University	Tulio Sulbaran	University of Southern Mississippi
Kenneth Sullivan	Arizona State University	Shubashini Suresh	University of Wolverhampton
Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University	Hermawan Tan	Soegijapranata Catholic University
Mark Tatum	Auburn University	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
Muhammad Umer	NED University of Engineering & Technology	Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez	Colorado State University
Erin Vitale	SUNY Alfred	Russell Walters	University of Florida
Endong Wang	University of Tennessee	Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato
Gayan Wedawatta	Aston University	Blake Wentz	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Anne Werner	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University
Sing Sing WONG	University College of Technology Sarawak	Jeong Han Woo	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Joseph Wright	University of Wisconsin-Stout	Wei Wu	Fresno State
Junli Yang	University of Westminster	Saman Yarmohammadi	Georgia Institute of Technology
Heather Yates	Oklahoma State University	Samaneh Zolfagharian	Georgia Institute of Technology
Jian Zuo	University of South Australia

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