Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 54th Annual International Conference

Hosted by Construct*ium April 17-21, 2018

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress:

Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Ahmed Abdelaty	Iowa State University	Hamid Abdirad	University of Washington
Yasir Alhammadi	Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University	Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead
Muhammad Kamran Ansari	AL-AMAAR	Ben Ashburn	Texas A&M
Baabak Ashuri	Georgia Tech	Sherif Attallah	Ball State University
Bernard Tuffour Atuahene	The University of Newcastle	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	Kimberly Baylor Bivins	Tuskegee University
Yvan Beliveau	Virginia Tech	William Bender	University of Washington
Brad Benhart	Purdue University	Stuart Bernstein	University of Nebraska
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	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
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	Wentworth Institute of Technology	Paul Crovella	SUNY-ESF
Muge Mukaddes Darwish	Texas Tech University	Luciana Debs	Purdue University
Mohamed Diab	Minnesota State University-Mankato	Manish Kumar Dixit	Texas A&M University
Todd Dunn	Rochester Institute of Technology	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
Edelmiro Escamilla	Texas A&M University	Clifton Farnsworth	Brigham Young University
Rizwan Farooqui	Florida International University	C. Ben Farrow	Auburn University
Andriel Fenner	University of Florida	Doug Forbes	Whole Life Consultants Ltd
Mohsen Foroughi Sabzevar	Drexel University	Cristian Gaedicke	California State University, East Bay
Dhaval Gajjar	Harkins	Abdulkadir Ganah	University of Central Lancashire
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
Scott Glick	Colorado State University	Chris Gordon	Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
David Gunderson	Washington State University	George Hagan	GH & Partners Consult Limited
Hamed Hakim		Mary Hardie	University of Western Sydney
Fred Hasler	Kansas State University	Yilmaz Hatipkarasulu	The University of Texas at San Antonio
Allan Hauck	Cal Poly State University - San Luis Obispo	Michele Herrmann	Mississippi State University
Paul Holley	Auburn University	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	Seokyon Hwang	Lamar University
Javier Irizarry	Georgia Institute of Technology	Zulhabri Ismail	Universiti Teknologi MARA
Hashem Izadi Moud	University of Florida	Aini Jaapar	Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia
James Jenkins	Purdue University	Wayne Jensen	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Myung Jeong	Georgia Southern University	Yunyan Andrea Jia	Curtin University
James Jones	Ball State University	Ahmad Jrade	University of Ottawa
Parminder Juneja	Kennesaw State University	Sittimont Kanjanabootra	The University of Newcastle
Ali Karji	University of Nebraska at Lincoln	Jacob Kashiwagi	Leadership Society of Arizona
Ravindar Kumar Khiani	NED University of Engineering and Technology	Ho-Sung Kim	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jeff Kim	Auburn University	Seong Jin Kim	Minnesota State University Mankato
Sungjin Kim	Georgia Institute of Technology	Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington
Yoon Duk Kim	Texas A&M University - Commerce	Krishna Kisi	Missouri Western State University
Daphene Koch	Purdue University	Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University
Esra Kurul	Oxford Brookes University	Suneerat Kusalasai	Kasetsart University
Sandeep Langar	The Univerisity of Texas at San Antonio	Sarel Lavy	Texas A&M University
Felix Le Roux	University of Pretoria, South Africa	Tom Leathem	Auburn University
Namhun Lee	Central Connecticut State University	Sangwook Lee	University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Brian Lines	University of Kansas	Jason Lucas	Clemson University
Mangesh Madurwar	Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur	Marcel Maghiar	Georgia Southern University
Don Mah	Northern Alberta Institute of Technology	Jaser Mahasneh	Jordan University of Science and Technology
Tarek Mahfouz	Ball State University	Gustavo Maldonado	Georgia Southern University
Nirajan Mani	Fitchburg State University	William Manion	The University of Maine
David Martin	Central Washington University	Rehan Masood	The University of Auckland
Andrew McCoy	Virginia Tech	Steven McCrary	Lamar University
Tamera McCuen	University of Oklahoma	Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University
Pavan Meadati	Kennesaw State University	Sonya Meekel	Dublin Institute of Technology
Babak Memarian	CPWR	Aftab Hameed Memon	Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Sciences and Technology
Jamie Metzinger	Purdue University	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)	Arefeh Mohammadi	University of Nebraska Lincoln
Atefeh Mohammadpour	Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)	Jeffrey M Molavi	University of Maryland ES
Nick Morton	Birmingham City University	Rachel Mosier	Oklahoma State University
Alan Mossman	The Change Business Ltd	Larry Muszynski	University of Florida
Mohammad Najafi	The University of Texas at Arlington	Timothy Odeyale	University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Greg Ohrn	Northern Arizona University	Grace Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
Chioma Okoro	University of Johannesburg	Alex Opoku	University College London
Mohammadreza Ostadalimakhmalbaf	Texas A& M University	James Otter	Pittsburg State University
Mehmet Ozbek	Colorado State University	Gulbin Ozcan Deniz	Thomas Jefferson University
Rogelio Palomera-Arias	University of Texas at San Antonio	John Patterson	Norwich University
Anthony Perrenoud	University of Oklahoma	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
Nipesh Pradhananga	Florida International University	Muzibur Rahman	University of Oklahoma
Keith Rahn	Auburn University	Dr. Rahul V. Ralegaonkar	VNIT
Cirilo Rangel	Purdue University	Randy Rapp	Purdue University
Lauren Redden	Auburn University	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
Saeed Rokooei	Mississippi State University	Leah Roue	MNSU and Ryan Companies
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
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
Mark Shaurette	Purdue University	Mark Shelbourn	University of Salford
Euysup Shim	Illinois State University	Alireza Shojaei	University of Florida
Kishor Shrestha	Montana Tech of the University of Montana	Pramen Shrestha	University of Nevada Las Vegas
Khalid Siddiqi	Kennesaw State University	Bruce Smith	Auburn University
Gary Smith	North Dakota State University	Jake Smithwick	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Zohreh Soltani	Texas A&M University	Oluwole SOYINKA	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Kelly Strong	Colorado State University	Jishnu Subedi	Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Tulio Sulbaran	The University of Texas at San Antonio	Shubashini Suresh	University of Wolverhampton
Mohammadsoroush Tafazzoli	Washington State University	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	University of Denver	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
Blake Wentz	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University
Abimbola Windapo	University of Cape Town	Sing Sing WONG	University College of Technology Sarawak
Wei Wu	Fresno State	Junli Yang	University of Westminster
Balkiz Yapicioglu	Arucad University of Creative art and Design	Saman Yarmohammadi	Georgia Institute of Technology
Heather Yates	Oklahoma State University	Chengyi Zhang	Eastern Kentucky university
Fan Zhang	University of Southern Mississippi	Carlos Zuluaga	North Carolina State University

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