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Title: Benchmarking for Action & Satisfaction in Facility Operations & Maintenance
Author: Dodd, Justin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Industrial management
Description: While benchmarking is a well-established strategy that organizations have been using to manage performance and seek continual improvement for almost 4 decades, the field of facility management has only started using benchmarking in the last 20 yea...

Title: Development of a Highway Maintenance Cost Index
Author: Riccio, Austin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation records maintenance activities performed in house, but does not have an efficient way of forecasting future costs. The problem with not having an efficient way to forecast future highway maintenance ...

Title: Evaluating Organizational Readiness to Implement Change Within the Workplace
Author: Kasana, Dipin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Organizational change is an initiative to transition from a current state to a desired future state, where the initiatives can be either planned or unplanned, based on motivational factors. This study evaluates the impact of organizational charact...

Title: INCORPORATING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING METHODS IN CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION
Author: Carter, Mikkea
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Curriculum planning
Description: Architecture, engineering and construction industries are advancing in collaborative methods for completing projects. Consequently, institutions of education are investigating methods of teaching students how to effectively function in teams in or...

Title: Manpower and Efficiency Study of the Manns Harbor Shipyard through Data Envelopment Analysis
Author: Morgan, Tyler
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Operations research
Description: The NCDOT Ferry Division (NCDOT-FD) self-performs preventative maintenance, emergency maintenance, and scheduled overhauls on a continual basis with manpower staffing to support the North Carolina Ferry Service’s (NCFS) ability to continue to oper...

Title: Maximizing Benchmarking Initiatives in the Built Environment for Sustained Continuous Improvement
Author: Dodd, Justin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Civil engineering, Industrial management
Description: While continuous improvement initiatives such as benchmarking have a history of utilization for core business objectives, their successful utilization in the built environment industries, such as construction and facilities management is not nearl...

Title: OPTIMIZING THE MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES OF DOT PRODUCT EVALUATION PROGRAMS
Author: Kasana, Dipin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: State transportation agencies (STAs) implement countless transportation products that are identified, evaluated, and accepted through a Product Evaluation Program (PEP). Through an effective PEP, STAs can ensure the continuous availability of high...

Title: Prediction of Defect Hotspots for Highway Maintenance Management: A Multi-asset Machine Learning Approach
Author: Karimzadeh, Arash
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation, Artificial intelligence
Description: Given multiple budget and revenue constraints that the transportation sector encounters, predictive analytics enables maintenance agencies to make effective decisions, prioritize maintenance tasks, and provide efficient life-cycle planning. To thi...

Title: Predictive Maintenance Optimization Framework For Pavement Management
Author: Kumar, Amit
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The development of a progressive modern highway system is essential for the enhancement of the road capacity, safety, efficiency, commerce, and national defences of a country. These highway systems consist of various integrated individual asset co...

Title: Quantifying Fire Hazards of Sustainable Initiatives in the Built Environment
Author: Saunders, Christina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Sustainability
Description: We are now challenged with design-oriented goals of sustainability initiatives requiring energy efficiency in the built environment. Stricter energy codes have added more potential fuel load to a structure and its building envelope. However, these...

Title: SCAN-BIM-FEA A STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY INVESTIGATION IN A CURTAIN WALL
Author: Patil, Gouree Prakash
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Computer engineering, Agricultural engineering
Description: Evaluating the structural integrity of curtain walls during the life cycle of a building project can assist architects in developing better designs, inform manufacturers on the needs to produce stronger building elements, help contractors establis...