Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 52nd Annual International Conference

Hosted by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah April 13-16, 2016

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress:

Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Mohamed Abdel-Wahab	Heriot-Watt University	Hamid Abdirad	University of Washington
Clinton Aigbavboa	University of Johannesburg	Neslihan Alp	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead	M Kamran Ansari	Al-Amaar
Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore	Somayeh Asadi	Pennsylvania State University
Ben Ashburn	Murray 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	David Batie	East Carolina University
Dennis Bausman	Clemson University	Yvan Beliveau	Virginia Tech
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	Curtis Bradford	University of Central Missouri
Jim Bradtmueller	Northern Kentucky 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
Che Khairil Izam Che Ibrahim	Universiti Teknologi MARA	KE CHEN	The University of Hong Kong
Qian Chen	The Ohio State University	Yunfeng Chen	Georgia Southern 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
Wesley Crawford	Purdue	John Cribbs	Arizona State University
Paul Crovella	SUNY-ESF	Muge Mukaddes Darwish	Texas Tech University
Mohamed Diab	Minnesota State University-Mankato	Manish Kumar Dixit	Texas A&M University
Philip Dunn	University of Maine	Todd Dunn	Rochester Institute of Technology
John Dye	Florida International University (retired)	Francis T Edum-Fotwe	Loughborough University
Sydney Eisenmann Parkhe	McCarthy Building Companies	Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University
Safinaz ElDawody	Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation	Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University
Jonathan Elliott	Colorado State University	Hannaneh Etemadinia	Tehran University
Clifton Farnsworth	Brigham Young University	Rizwan Farooqui	Florida International University
C. Ben Farrow	Auburn University	Mark Federle	Marquette University
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
Dhaval Gajjar	Arizona State University	Abdulkadir Ganah	University of Central Lancashire
Lu Gao	University of Houston	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	University of Florida	Somik Ghosh	University of Oklahoma
Morten Gjerde	Victoria University of Wellington	Scott Glick	Colorado State University
Ricki Goode	Carillion	Chris Gordon	Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
Sterling Graham	Swinerton Builders	mark grinter	southern illinois university edwardsville
Angela Guggemos	Colorado State University	David Gunderson	Washington State University
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	Paul Holley	Auburn University
Lisa Holliday	University of Oklahoma	Lantz Holtzhower	Oklahoma State University
Kristen Hurtado	Arizona State University	Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York
Rafaat Hussein	The State University of New York	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	Myung Jeong	Georgia Southern University
Yunyan Andrea Jia	Curtin University	Ruoyu Jin	The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Barry Jones	California Polytechnic State University	James Jones	Ball State University
Ahmad Jrade	University of Ottawa	Chuanjing JU	University of Hong Kong
Sittimont Kanjanabootra	The University of Newcastle	Dean Kashiwagi	Arizona State University
Ali Keyvanfar	Construction Research Centre, Construction Research Alliance	Ravindar Kumar Khiani	NED University of Engineering and Technology
Ho-Sung Kim	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Seongchan Kim	Western Illinois University
Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington	Daphene Koch	Purdue University
Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State 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
Thomas Logan	Kansas State University	Yujie Lu	National University of Singapore
Jason Lucas	Clemson University	Jaser Mahasneh	Virginia Tech
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	Tamera McCuen	University of Oklahoma
Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University	Sonya Meekel	Dublin Institute of Technology
Babak Memarian	CPWR	Aftab Hameed Memon	Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Sciences and Technology
D Jason Miller	Appalachian State University	Kevin Miller	Brigham Young University
Richard Miller	Ohio Northern University	Anthony Mills	Deakin University
Thomas Mills	Virginia Tech	Mohd Saidin Misnan	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Karen Mogendorff	Technical University Delft	Norsiah Mohamad	University Technology MARA (UiTM)
M Fadhil Mohammad	UniversityTechnology MARA, Malaysia	Atefeh Mohammadpour	Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Atefeh Mohammadpour	Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)	Jeffrey M Molavi	University of Maryland ES
Nick Morton	Birmingham City University	Alan Mossman	The Change Business Ltd
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	Reed Nielsen	Brigham Young University - Idaho
MaryEllen Nobe	Colorado State University	Sunday Odediran	University of Cape Town
Timothy Odeyale	Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria	Greg Ohrn	Northern Arizona University
Stephen Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University	Alex Opoku	London South Bank University
Emeka Efe Osaji	Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University	James Otter	Pittsburg State University
Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University	Rogelio Palomera-Arias	University of Texas at San Antonio
Arjun Pandey	IIT Chicago	Kamalesh Panthi	East Carolina 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
Muzibur Rahman	University of Oklahoma	Keith Rahn	Auburn 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
Peter Rogers	Georgia Southern University	Thomas Rogers	Northern Arizona University
Tyson Rupnow	Louisiana Transportation Research Center	Richard Ryan	University of Oklahoma
Boong Yeol Ryoo	Texas A&M University	Ihab Saad	Northern Kentucky University
Seyed Masoud Sajjadian	University of Liverpool	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	Ahmed Senouci	University of Houston
Mohsen Shahandashti	University of Texas at Arlington	Jessica Sharp	The University of Southern Mississippi
Mark Shaurette	Purdue University	Zhigang Shen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kishor Shrestha	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	Pramen Shrestha	University of Nevada Las Vegas
Scott Shuler	Colorado State	Khalid Siddiqi	Kennesaw State University
Dianne Slattery	Missouri State University	Bruce Smith	Auburn University
Gary Smith	North Dakota State University	James Smith	Clemson University
Jake Smithwick	Arizona State University	Brian Stone	Western Illinois University
Tulio Sulbaran	University of Southern Mississippi	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 Tong	Glasgow Caledonian University
Michael Tramel	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Daniel Trujillo	Colorado State University - Pueblo
Chika Udeaja	Northumbria University	Philip Udo-Inyang	Temple University
Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez	Colorado State University	Erin Vitale	SUNY Alfred
Russell Walters	University of Florida	Endong Wang	University of Tennessee
Heng Wang	Purdue University	Joel Wao	Tuskegee University
Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato	Gayan Wedawatta	Aston University
Blake Wentz	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Anne Werner	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Abimbola Windapo	University of Cape Town	asregedew woldesenbet	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sing Sing WONG	University College of Technology Sarawak	Jeong Han Woo	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Ronald Woolsey	University of Central Missouri	Wei Wu	Fresno State
Junli Yang	University of Westminster	Balkiz Yapicioglu	Girne American University
Saman Yarmohammadi	Georgia Institute of Technology	Heather Yates	Oklahoma State University
Moruf Olalekan Yusuf	University of Hafr Al Batin	Samaneh Zolfagharian	Georgia Institute of Technology

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