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Effectiveness Of Building Systems Strategies For Mitigation Of Airborne Transmission Of Sars-Cov-2, Meng Kong, Jialei Shen, Bing Dong, Jianshun Jensen Zhang Nov 2020

Effectiveness Of Building Systems Strategies For Mitigation Of Airborne Transmission Of Sars-Cov-2, Meng Kong, Jialei Shen, Bing Dong, Jianshun Jensen Zhang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering - All Scholarship

Airborne transmission has been recognized as a major transmission pathway for the infectious disease COVID-19. This study investigated the effectiveness of several indoor air quality (IAQ) control strategies on the mitigation of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The well-known airborne disease infection risk model (Wells-Riley equation) was used to estimate the infection risk of the SARS-CoV-2 in seven (7) different types of spaces including conference center/ballrooms, hotel bistro//cafeteria, hotel lobby, classrooms (lecture), conference room/small classroom, hotel or cruise ship guest rooms and open plan offices. The IAQ control strategies included increased ventilation rate, improved air distribution …


Recycling Cigarettes Into Concrete, Jonathan R. Rosete Nov 2020

Recycling Cigarettes Into Concrete, Jonathan R. Rosete

Construction Management

The objective of my senior project is to find a solution for the growing amount of improperly disposed cigarette butts on our planet. To accomplish this, I created and tested concrete cylinders mixed with different amounts of used cigarettes. It is my goal that we will be able to recycle cigarette butts and incorporate them into our everyday concrete use. By adding cigarettes to our mixes, I also understand their will be concerns with its potential strength. However with this in mind, it is my intention that these current mixes will only be used for non-structural concrete. In the following, …


Bs News November/December Nov 2020

Bs News November/December

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Green Pond Conglomerate As Building Stone In Morris County, New Jersey, Gregory A. Pope Oct 2020

The Use Of Green Pond Conglomerate As Building Stone In Morris County, New Jersey, Gregory A. Pope

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Green Pond Conglomerate (GPC) is a maroon colored quartzite with white quartz pebbles, a classic “puddingstone”. GPC derives from a NW-SW-trending sliver of Paleozoic sediments, the “Green Pond Outlier”, surrounded by older metamorphic and igneous rocks of Morris and Passaic Counties. Buildings, retaining walls, field fences, and monuments incorporate the durable and attractive stone, in a distinct geographic area of Morris County. Several instances of structures completely constructed or faced with GPC occur in and around Morristown, limited to affluent houses and one prominent church. In these cases, GPC stones were dressed and faced, a labor-intensive effort. Elsewhere in the …


Online Implementation Of Structural Analysis Tool For Remote Learning, Ghada El-Mahdy, Amany Micheal Oct 2020

Online Implementation Of Structural Analysis Tool For Remote Learning, Ghada El-Mahdy, Amany Micheal

Civil Engineering

The delivery of a structural analysis module to architectural or civil engineering students needs the visualization of certain diagrams, such as the internal force diagrams and the elastic line. These diagrams are difficult to grasp for students new to structural analysis and need a lot of practice to become proficient in drawing them. Current structural analysis textbooks with electronic platforms do not include tools to draw the internal force diagrams or deflection. This has led to the initiative of creating an online structural analysis tool to enable the student to easily apply different loadings on different statical systems to draw …


Resilience Of School Systems Following Severe Earthquakes, Emad M. Hassan, Hussam N. Mahmoud, Bruce R. Ellingwood Oct 2020

Resilience Of School Systems Following Severe Earthquakes, Emad M. Hassan, Hussam N. Mahmoud, Bruce R. Ellingwood

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Natural disasters may have catastrophic and long-lasting impacts on communities' physical, economic, and social infrastructure. Slow recovery of educational services following such events is likely to cause traumatic stress in children, lead families to out-migrate, and affect the community's overall social stability. Methods for quantifying and assessing the restoration process of educational systems and their dependencies on other supporting infrastructure have not received adequate attention. This study introduces, for the first time, a new framework to evaluate the functionality, recovery, and resilience of a school system following severe earthquake events. The framework considers both the quantity and quality of education …


The Professional Constructor, Full Issue, Volume 45, Number 02 Oct 2020

The Professional Constructor, Full Issue, Volume 45, Number 02

The Professional Constructor

No abstract provided.


Application Of Modified River Health Index For Sungai Penchala, Sathis Venkitasamy Sep 2020

Application Of Modified River Health Index For Sungai Penchala, Sathis Venkitasamy

Student Works (2020-2029)

The aim of this study is to have a tool of management of an urban river. A simple tool in terms of index aimed to be developed to manage urban river to meet its intended usage. River Health Index (RHI) developed by combining both physico-chemical parameters and biological measures through scores and weightages. Sungai Penchala is the small urban river chosen for this study. Water quality study, which include physico-chemical parameters, benthic macroinvertebrates and surrounding land use activities have been carried out since May 2016 to September 2016. Ten sampling points have been selected to represent the condition of the …


How Does Three-Dimensional Canopy Geometry Affect The Front Propagation Of A Gravity Current?, Jian Zhou, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy Sep 2020

How Does Three-Dimensional Canopy Geometry Affect The Front Propagation Of A Gravity Current?, Jian Zhou, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Large-eddy simulations are performed to investigate how three-dimensional canopy geometry affects the front propagation of an incoming gravity current under a given initial forcing. A regular array of rigid square cylinders are used to represent the distributed canopy elements. It is shown that the conventional geometrical parameter of submerged canopies in constant-density flows (ah, where a is the frontal area per canopy volume and h is the canopy height) is misleading when applied to buoyancy-driven flows due to the additional complexity arising from the internal density gradients. Instead, the present study suggests a new geometrical framework consisting of a canopy …


Co2 Curing Efficiency For Cement Paste And Mortars Produced By A Low Water-To-Cement Ratio, Seong Ho Han, Yubin Jun, Tae Yong Shin, Jae Hong Kim Sep 2020

Co2 Curing Efficiency For Cement Paste And Mortars Produced By A Low Water-To-Cement Ratio, Seong Ho Han, Yubin Jun, Tae Yong Shin, Jae Hong Kim

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Curing by CO2 is a way to utilize CO2 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Placing early-age cement paste in a CO2 chamber or pressure vessel accelerates its strength development. Cement carbonation is attributed to the quickened strength development, and CO2 uptake can be quantitatively evaluated by measuring CO2 gas pressure loss in the pressure vessel. A decrease in CO2 gas pressure is observed with all cement pastes and mortar samples regardless of the mix proportion and the casting method; one method involves compacting a low water-to-cement ratio mix, and the other method comprises a …


Bs News September/October Sep 2020

Bs News September/October

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.


Identifying Challenges To Project Outcomes From A Transportation Project Owner Perspective, Evan D. Bingham, Clifton B. Farnsworth, Rebecca O. Warr, James P. Smith Sep 2020

Identifying Challenges To Project Outcomes From A Transportation Project Owner Perspective, Evan D. Bingham, Clifton B. Farnsworth, Rebecca O. Warr, James P. Smith

The Professional Constructor

Transportation project owners are often concerned with the risks associated with construction, because these challenges can directly affect project outcomes and often lead to increased time and cost for projects. It is, therefore, vital to identify challenges early within the project life cycle. Transportation project delivery has evolved to strengthen the influence that the owner has upon the project, transitioning away from the exclusive use of traditional Design-Bid-Build to the more innovative and involved approaches of Design-Build and Construction Manager / General Contractor. Unfortunately, this has resulted in increased owner risk. In this research, transportation project owners were asked to …


A Culture-Based Analysis Of Construction Management Students’ Conflict Management Styles, David W. Martin Sep 2020

A Culture-Based Analysis Of Construction Management Students’ Conflict Management Styles, David W. Martin

The Professional Constructor

The use of collaborative project delivery systems in the construction industry requires cooperation and shared management of the construction process to achieve success. This growth in collaborative systems requires project representatives to effectively manage conflict. Project failures utilizing collaborative methods are frequently attributed to an inability of project representatives to collaboratively resolve conflict. Research suggests that minorities are prone to use a collaborative conflict management style and the inclusion of minorities in construction management (CM) roles can reduce negative conflict. The growing evidence that increasing workforce diversity in CM is beneficial to the industry indicates that there is value in …


Role Of Infrastructure In The Success Of Residential Developments In Michigan, Aditi Hardekar, M.G. Matt Syal Sep 2020

Role Of Infrastructure In The Success Of Residential Developments In Michigan, Aditi Hardekar, M.G. Matt Syal

The Professional Constructor

Infrastructure systems are critical for the success of a residential development. These systems include the infrastructure within and around the development as well as facilities and amenities in the surrounding area. Most of the residential development literature tend to focus on the planning, layout, social aspects, and the residential units itself, but lack emphasis on the infrastructure systems. This paper identified supporting infrastructure for residential developments based on the review of research and industry literature, and several case studies nationwide. The availability and absence of infrastructure systems were investigated in each case study. The review led to the identification of …


Analyzing The Safety Effects Of Edge Lane Roads For All Road Users, Marcial F. Lamera Sep 2020

Analyzing The Safety Effects Of Edge Lane Roads For All Road Users, Marcial F. Lamera

Master's Theses

This thesis acts as one of the first studies that analyzes the safety effects of Edge Lane Roads (ELR) for all road users. This is important since ELRs can be a solution to many issues, such as alleviating congestion, increasing multimodality along roadways, and reducing maintenance costs. ELRs in both North America and Australia were observed. Starting with the North American ELRs, the following study designs were employed to estimate the safety of ELRs: (a) yoked comparison where each ELR installation was matched with at least two comparable 2-lane roads to serve as comparison sites and (b) an Empirical Bayes …


Change Management In Construction: Necessity, Obstacles,And Suggested Solutions, Ihab M. H. Saad Sep 2020

Change Management In Construction: Necessity, Obstacles,And Suggested Solutions, Ihab M. H. Saad

The Professional Constructor

The construction industry is one of the major harbingers of the economy of any industrialized nation. Its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product is undeniable. The major economic downturn that lasted from 2008 to 2011 resulted in a lot of change in the industry personnel at both the administration and labor force levels. This resulted in expediting the retirement of a generation of seasoned professionals, and creating a gap in the ranks of construction firms that is still to be completely filled. Similar impacts followed the uncertainty resulting recently from Covid-19 and the economic instability and uncertainty it caused. One …


Pert, Cpm And The Tangled History Of Network Scheduling, Charles Christopher Smith, Vivek Sharma, Gregory B. Baecher Sep 2020

Pert, Cpm And The Tangled History Of Network Scheduling, Charles Christopher Smith, Vivek Sharma, Gregory B. Baecher

The Professional Constructor

The origins of two network scheduling techniques: The Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT); and the Critical Path Method (CPM) are examined. Prior accounts hold that each are different and were created separately. PERT, developed within the U. S. Navy’s highly classified POLARIS nuclear missile program which began in 1955. CPM, the creation of American industrial concerns E. I. du Pont de Nemours (du Pont) and Remington Rand UNIVAC. With the objective of settling “an acrimonious dispute over parentage,” this research examines the literature and the original forms of PERT and CPM noting their ‘dead ring’ resemblances, synchronous development timelines, while …


Second Act Conversion Of The Mercado De Xabregas, João Santa-Rita Aug 2020

Second Act Conversion Of The Mercado De Xabregas, João Santa-Rita

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Under The Radar Joe Garlick On Real Estate Development And Equity, Elizabeth Debs, Liliane Wong Aug 2020

Under The Radar Joe Garlick On Real Estate Development And Equity, Elizabeth Debs, Liliane Wong

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


The Elephant Refuge 'Pre-Use' Vs ''Reuse', Heinrich Hermann Aug 2020

The Elephant Refuge 'Pre-Use' Vs ''Reuse', Heinrich Hermann

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Appropriating Architecture Digital Graffiti As Temporary Spatial Intervention, Dorothée King Aug 2020

Appropriating Architecture Digital Graffiti As Temporary Spatial Intervention, Dorothée King

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Being Architecture And Action From Descartes To Foucault, Barbara Stehle Aug 2020

Being Architecture And Action From Descartes To Foucault, Barbara Stehle

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Empowering Actions The Participatory Renovations Of A Shelter, Christian Campagnaro, Nicoló Di Prima Aug 2020

Empowering Actions The Participatory Renovations Of A Shelter, Christian Campagnaro, Nicoló Di Prima

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Free Speech Comes Home La Casa Del Hijo Del Ahuizote, Enrique Aureng Silva Aug 2020

Free Speech Comes Home La Casa Del Hijo Del Ahuizote, Enrique Aureng Silva

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


The Past Embodied In Action, Laura Gioeni Aug 2020

The Past Embodied In Action, Laura Gioeni

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Klan Kosova Resisting New Order, Astrit Nixha Aug 2020

Klan Kosova Resisting New Order, Astrit Nixha

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


We Are Never Not Inside Discrete Objects And Nested Interiorities, Clay Odom Aug 2020

We Are Never Not Inside Discrete Objects And Nested Interiorities, Clay Odom

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Tactical Urbanism Where It Matters Small Scale Interventions In Underserved Communities, Sally Harrison Aug 2020

Tactical Urbanism Where It Matters Small Scale Interventions In Underserved Communities, Sally Harrison

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Everybody's House The Rosa Parks House Project, Ryan Mendoza, Fabia Mendoza, Diogo Vale, João José Santos Aug 2020

Everybody's House The Rosa Parks House Project, Ryan Mendoza, Fabia Mendoza, Diogo Vale, João José Santos

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.


Temporary Acts The Decorators, Kristina Anilane, Luis Sacristan Murga Aug 2020

Temporary Acts The Decorators, Kristina Anilane, Luis Sacristan Murga

IntAR Interventions Adaptive Reuse

No abstract provided.