Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 53rd Annual International Conference

Hosted by University of Washington and Washington State University April 5-8, 2017

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress:

Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Hussein Abaza	Southern Poly University	Mohamed Abdel-Wahab	Heriot-Watt University
Ahmed Abdelaty	Iowa State University	Hamid Abdirad	University of Washington
Michael Addy	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technoloy	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
Ben Ashburn	Texas A&M	Baabak Ashuri	Georgia Tech
Sherif Attallah	Ball State University	Bernard Tuffour Atuahene	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Dennis Audo	Pittsburg State University	Salman Azhar	Auburn University
Philip Barlow	California Polytechnic 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	George Blumberg	Oxford Brookes University
Richard Boser	Illinois State University	David Boyd	Birmingham City University
Curtis Bradford	University of Central Missouri	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	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
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	University of Colorado Denver
Wesley Collins	Auburn 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	David Dowdle	University of Salford
Lacey Duckworth	US Army Corps of Engineers	Philip Dunn	University of Maine
John Dye	Florida International University (retired)	Francis T Edum-Fotwe	Loughborough University
Ricardo Eiris	University of Florida	Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University
Safinaz ElDawody	Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation	Lee Ellingson	Indiana State University
Jonathan Elliott	Colorado State University	Michael Emmer	Roger Williams University
Hannaneh Etemadinia	Tehran 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	Drexel 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	Amir Naser Ghanbaripour	Iran University of Applied Science and Technology
Amine Ghanem	Roger Williams University	Masoud Gheisari	University of Florida
Somik Ghosh	University of Oklahoma	Dennis Gier	California State University, Chico
Scott Glick	Colorado State University	Ricki Goode	Building Property Services
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	Suat Gunhan	The University of Texas at San Antonio
George Hagan	GH & Partners Consult Limited	Mary Hardie	University of Western Sydney
Fred Hasler	Kansas State University	Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo
Mohammad Heidarinejad	University of Maryland	Michele Herrmann	Mississippi State University
Donna Hollar	East Carolina 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	Hashem Izadi Moud	University of Florida
Aini Jaapar	Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia	Francois Jacobs	Northeastern College
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
Sittimont Kanjanabootra	The University of Newcastle	Jacob 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	Seong Jin Kim	Minnesota State University Mankato
Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington	Daphene Koch	Purdue University
Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University	Scott Kramer	Auburn University
Esra Kurul	Oxford Brookes University	Suneerat Kusalasai	Kasetsart University
Sandeep Langar	University of Southern Mississippi	Sarel Lavy	Texas A&M University
Felix Le Roux	University of Pretoria, South Africa	Tom Leathem	Mississippi State University
Namhun Lee	Central Connecticut State University	Yujie Lu	National University of Singapore
Jason Lucas	Clemson University	Marcel Maghiar	Georgia Southern University
Jaser Mahasneh	Jordan University of Science and Technology	Tarek Mahfouz	Ball State University
Gustavo Maldonado	Georgia Southern University	Anupa Manewa	Liverpool John Moores 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
Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University	Pavan Meadati	Southern Polytechnic State 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
Rebecca Mirsky	Boise State University	Mohd Saidin Misnan	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Norsiah Mohamad	University Technology MARA (UiTM)	M Fadhil Mohammad	UniversityTechnology MARA, Malaysia
Atefeh Mohammadpour	Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)	Jeffrey M Molavi	University of Maryland ES
Brian Moore	Associated Schools of Construction	Nick Morton	Birmingham City University
Rachel Mosier	Oklahoma State 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
Sunday Odediran	University of Cape Town	Timothy Odeyale	Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
Greg Ohrn	Northern Arizona University	Grace Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
Stephen Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University	Chioma Okoro	University of Johannesburg
Alex Opoku	University College London	Emeka Efe Osaji	Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University
James Otter	Pittsburg State University	Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University
Gulbin Ozcan Deniz	Philadelphia University	Kamalesh Panthi	East Carolina University
Forest Peterson	Stanford University	Don Phillippi	Kansas State University
Philip Warren Plugge	Central Washington University	Muzibur Rahman	University of Oklahoma
Keith Rahn	Auburn University	Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar	VNIT
Abbas Rashidi	Georgia Institute of Technology	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	Leah Roue	MNSU and Ryan Companies
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	Ehsan Saghatforoush	Mehralborz Institute of Higher education
Seyed Masoud Sajjadian	University of Liverpool	Carlos Salgado	University of Maryland Eastern Shore
John Schaufelberger	University of Washington	Lloyd Scott	Dublin Institute of Technology
Bolivar Senior	Colorado State University	Ahmed Senouci	University of Houston
Samad Sepasgozar		Mohsen Shahandashti	University of Texas at Arlington
Jessica Sharp	The University of Southern Mississippi	Mark Shaurette	Purdue University
Alireza Shojaei	University of Florida	Kishor Shrestha	Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Pramen Shrestha	University of Nevada Las Vegas	Scott Shuler	Colorado State
Khalid Siddiqi	Kennesaw State University	Bruce Smith	Auburn University
Gary Smith	North Dakota State University	Jake Smithwick	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Oluwole SOYINKA	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Brian Stone	Western Illinois 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	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
Daniel Trujillo	Colorado State University - Pueblo	Philip Udo-Inyang	Temple University
Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez	Colorado State University	Shahram VarzaVand	University of Northern Iowa
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	Michael Whelan	Central Washington University
Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University	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
Chengyi Zhang	Eastern Kentucky university	Fan Zhang	University of Southern Mississippi
Samaneh Zolfagharian	Georgia Institute of Technology	Carlos Zuluaga	North Carolina State University

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