Proceedings

Associated Schools of Construction Proceedings of the 55th Annual International Conference

Hosted by University of Denver April 10-13, 2019

Welcome

Table of Contents

Construction Education:

Construction Practice:

Research in Progress:

Abstracts

Acknowledgements:

Board of Reviewers

Hussein Abaza	Southern Poly University	Moatassem Abdallah	University of Colorado Denver
Hamid Abdirad	University of Washington	Ahmed Abdrabbou	Eastern Michigan University
Yewande Abraham	RIT	Iffah Farhana Abu Talib	Universiti Teknologi MARA
Kereshmeh Afsari	Purdue University	Omar Amoudi	The National University of Science and Technology/Caledonian College of Engineering
Ganiyu Amuda-Yusuf	University of Ilorin	Norma Andersen	Minnesota State University Moorhead
Muhammad Kamran Ansari	AL-AMAAR	Joseph O. Arumala	University of Maryland – Eastern Shore
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	Minsoo Baek	Georgia Institute of Technology
Philip Barlow	California Polytechnic State University	Nathan Barry	Metropolitan Community College
David Batie	East Carolina University	Dennis Bausman	Clemson University
William Bender	University of Washington	Brad Benhart	Purdue University
Stuart Bernstein	University of Nebraska	Alireza Borhani	University of Washington
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
KE CHEN	The University of Hong Kong	Qian Chen	The Ohio State 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
Alison Cotgrave	Liverpool John Moores University	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	David Dowdle	University of Salford
Lacey Duckworth	US Army Corps of Engineers	Todd Dunn	Rochester Institute of Technology
Ricardo Eiris	University of Florida	Mohamed El-Gafy	Michigan State University
Safinaz ElDawody	Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation	Jonathan Elliott	Colorado State University
MOHAMED ELZOMOR	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	Edelmiro Escamilla	Texas A&M University
Amirhooshang Fakhimi	Islamic Azad University - Kashan Branch	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
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	Western Carolina 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
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
Jason Hailer	Cal Poly - SLO	Hamed Hakim
Mary Hardie	University of Western Sydney	Fred Hasler	Kansas State University
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 Malaysia
Aini Jaapar	Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia	Francois Jacobs	Front Range Community College
Idris Jeelani	North Carolina State University	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	Boshra Karimi	Northern Kentucky university
Ali Karji	University of Nebraska at Lincoln	Scott Kelting	Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
John Killingsworth	Colorado State University	Ho-Sung Kim	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jeff Kim	Auburn University	Seong Jin Kim	Minnesota State University Mankato
Sungjin Kim	University of Alabama	Yong-Woo Kim	University of Washington
Jacob Kovel	Central Connecticut State University	Scott Kramer	Auburn University
Suneerat Kusalasai	Kasetsart University	Sandeep Langar	The Univerisity of Texas at San Antonio
Kyle Larson	University of Central Missouri	Sarel Lavy	Texas A&M University
Tom Leathem	Auburn University	Namhun Lee	Central Connecticut State University
Sangwook Lee	University of Wisconsin-Platteville	Brian Lines	University of Kansas
Fangxiao Liu	Appalachian State University	Jason Lucas	Clemson University
Marcel Maghiar	Georgia Southern University	Don Mah	Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Jaser Mahasneh	Jordan University of Science and Technology	Gustavo Maldonado	Georgia Southern University
Anupa Manewa	Liverpool John Moores University	Nirajan Mani	Fitchburg State University
William Manion	The University of Maine	David Martin	Central Washington University
Rehan Masood	The University of Auckland	Tamera McCuen	University of Oklahoma
Ausbra McFarland	Northern Kentucky University	Pavan Meadati	Kennesaw State University
Jamie Metzinger	Indiana State University	Richard Miller	Ohio Northern University
Anthony Mills	Deakin University	Thomas Mills	Virginia Tech
Norsiah Mohamad	University Technology MARA (UiTM)	Atefeh Mohammadpour	Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Jeffrey M Molavi	University of Maryland ES	Brian Moore	Associated Schools of Construction
Rachel Mosier	Oklahoma State University	Larry Muszynski	University of Florida
Hariharan Naganathan	University of Central Missouri	Mohammad Najafi	The University of Texas at Arlington
Sunday Odediran	University of Cape Town	Greg Ohrn	Northern Arizona University
Grace Ojo	Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria	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
Anthony Perrenoud	University of Oklahoma	Philip Warren Plugge	Central Washington University
James Pocock	U. S. Air Force Academy	Nipesh Pradhananga	Florida International 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
Andrew Ross	Liverpool John Moores University	Les Ruddock	University of Salford
Tyson Rupnow	Louisiana Transportation Research Center	Marion Russell	United States Air Force Academy
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	Anil Sawhney	RICS
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
Amirali Shalwani	University of Kansas	Mark Shelbourn	University of Salford
Euysup Shim	Illinois State University	Arezoo Shirazi	Georgia Tech
Alireza Shojaei	Mississippi state university	Alireza Shojaei	Mississippi state university
Kishor Shrestha	Montana Tech of the University of Montana	Khalid Siddiqi	Kennesaw State University
Mohan Siriwardena	Liverpool John Moores University	Gary Smith	North Dakota State University
James Smith	Brigham Young University	Jake Smithwick	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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
Mark Tatum	Auburn University	John Tingerthal	Northern Arizona University
Daniel Trujillo	University of Denver	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
Joel Wao	Tuskegee University	Brian Wasserman	MN State University Mankato
Justin Weidman	Brigham Young University	Blake Wentz	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Anne Werner	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Kenneth Williamson III	Texas A&M University
Abimbola Windapo	University of Cape Town	Jeong Han Woo	Milwaukee School of Engineering
Ronald Woolsey	University of Central Missouri	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
Jaeheum Yeon	Texas A&M University-Commerce	Chengyi Zhang	Eastern Kentucky university
Fan Zhang	University of Southern Mississippi	Jiansong Zhang	Purdue University
jingxiao zhang	Chang'an university	Samaneh Zolfagharian	Georgia Institute of Technology
Carlos Zuluaga	North Carolina State University

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