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Bs News November/December Nov 2014

Bs News November/December

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Bs News September/October Sep 2014

Bs News September/October

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Coastal Defenses, U.S., Bert Chapman Jul 2014

Coastal Defenses, U.S., Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Provides an overview of U.S. military coastal defenses during the period up to and including the War 1812.


No Admixture, Sustainable, Self-Consolidating Grout, Craig V. Baltimore Dr Jul 2014

No Admixture, Sustainable, Self-Consolidating Grout, Craig V. Baltimore Dr

Craig V. Baltimore

ABSTRACT: The consolidation of grout in concrete masonry unit (CMU) walls is labor-intensive. Also, the grout’s Portland cement content has a high embodied energy demand – a non-sustainable characteristic. For the labor-intensive issue, chemical admixture self-consolidating grouts have been used in walls 12.67 ft. (3.86 m) tall, however the chemical additive can impose new limitations on the grout (non-robust characteristics). No admixture self-consolidating grout with high percentage Portland cement replacement have potential for robust and sustainable application.

This paper reports on the consolidation of no admixture self-consolidating grout made by substituting high percentages of Portland cement with Type-F fly ash …


Bs News July/August Jul 2014

Bs News July/August

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Multi-Criteria Decision Modeling For Best Value Selections In Target Value Design Integrated Project Delivery, Brent Patrick Griffis Jun 2014

Multi-Criteria Decision Modeling For Best Value Selections In Target Value Design Integrated Project Delivery, Brent Patrick Griffis

Master's Theses

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) combined with Target Value Design (TVD) is a better way to deliver value for the client than traditional guaranteed maximum price (GMP) methods. With traditional GMP delivery methods, the interests of the parties are often at odds. The goal of IPD is to align all party interests in order to achieve a win-win scenario. Due to the aligning nature of IPD and the fact that each party’s success is dependent on achieving the project objectives as a whole; a non-biased, transparent, decision-making process is necessary in order to deliver the project objectives within the constraints of …


Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Newsletter (Summer 2014), Cheryl Stevens, Dean May 2014

Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Newsletter (Summer 2014), Cheryl Stevens, Dean

Ogden College of Science & Engineering Publications

No abstract provided.


Bs News May/June May 2014

Bs News May/June

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Bs News March/April Mar 2014

Bs News March/April

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Improving Enrollment In The Construction Management Graduate Program Through Students’ Perspectives, Mouloud Messaoudi Jan 2014

Improving Enrollment In The Construction Management Graduate Program Through Students’ Perspectives, Mouloud Messaoudi

Master of Technology Management Plan II Graduate Projects

Low enrollment and the decrease in graduation and retention rates are challenges facing the growth of the Master’s in Technology Management – Construction Management (MTM-CM) program at BGSU. In addition, the competition between the universities to enroll and retain more in-state, out-of-state, and international students is aggressive. There is a need for a revaluation for the MTM-CM program in order to attract more students in the future. This study is a necessary step to know what the MTM-CM students think about the product delivered to them at BGSU. There was no prior study investigating the satisfaction level of the construction …


Bs News January/February Jan 2014

Bs News January/February

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Behavior Of I-Section Gfrp Beam Including Retrofitting For Damage Effects, Mamadou Konate, Zia Razzaq Jan 2014

Behavior Of I-Section Gfrp Beam Including Retrofitting For Damage Effects, Mamadou Konate, Zia Razzaq

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents the outcome of a study of an I-section Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) beam including retrofitting for damage effects. A total of three beam tests were conducted in the following sequence: GFRP beam with no retrofitting and a single mid-span web brace; the partially damaged (cracked) beam with GFRP plates used for retrofitting; and the retrofitted beam re-tested with the lateral brace at the top flange level. Both cracking and lateral-torsional buckling behavior is studied and experimental load-deflection relationships recorded. Using the mechanical properties of GFRP based on the experimental data, theoretical predictions are made for the …


Using Web Scraping Technology To Automatize Cost Data Collection For Calculating Construction Cost Indexes, Joseph Shrestha, H. David Jeong Dec 2013

Using Web Scraping Technology To Automatize Cost Data Collection For Calculating Construction Cost Indexes, Joseph Shrestha, H. David Jeong

Joseph Shrestha

Construction Cost Index (CCI) and Building Cost Index (BCI) published by Engineering News Record (ENR) are two of the very popular cost indexes used in the industry. Many state DOTs publishes their highway construction cost indexes to keep track of the current trend of cost escalation. The ENR BCI and ENR CCI are prepared by collecting cost data from agents of the 20 cities in the country. Such manual process of collecting cost data can be costly. The proposed method of price data collection, based on a computer technology called “web scraping,” can automatically collect material prices and labor wage …


Dwr Based As-Built Schedule –Powerful But Highly Neglected Application Of Dwr Data, Joseph Shrestha, H. David Jeong Dec 2013

Dwr Based As-Built Schedule –Powerful But Highly Neglected Application Of Dwr Data, Joseph Shrestha, H. David Jeong

Joseph Shrestha

Daily work report (DWR) is a very important data recorded by the inspectors during the construction projects. Although, a lot of time and effort is invested to collect this big amount of DWR data, its use has been limited mostly to the contractor payment and dispute resolution. This study presents the methodological details about utilizing the historical DWR data to automatically generate the schedule for future projects based on the bid data. As a proof of concept of concept, as-built schedules has been developed from the DWR data. The as-built schedule generated can be used as a tool for more …