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Proceedings of the 2010 Construction Research Congress, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8-10, 2010. Sponsored by the Construction Institute of ASCE. This collection of 156 peer-reviewed papers covers 15 general state-of-knowledge areas in construction engineering and management. The papers address and analyze revolutionary research findings, technological advances, emerging trends, and functional characteristics that are shaping the future of the industry. Topics include: automated real time systems; construction industry institute research; construction education; construction modeling and simulation; disaster planning and mitigation; information technology and computer applications; infrastructure management and underground construction; knowledge management; organizational leadership and management; procurement, contracting, and legal affairs; productivity, benchmarking, and workforce issues; project planning and control; project risk assessment and management; quantitative methods and models; sustainable construction and facilities.

Building --- Construction management --- Construction methods --- Underground construction --- Innovation --- Infrastructure construction --- Labor --- Management methods --- Computer models --- Canada --- Technological innovations

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Project Administration for Design-Build Contracts explains the basics of administering a design-build project after the contract has been awarded. As with Preparing for Design-Build Projects—about design-build projects during the proposal stage—by the same three broadly experienced authors, this book breaks the process into a series of learning modules that explain the component steps. It begins with an introduction to design-build project administration and goes on to cover topics such as scheduling, design administration, and design quality management. The authors examine construction topics including quality management, change orders, progress payments, and close-out. This practical guide provides case studies, often drawn from the authors' own experiences. This book is a resource for owners, engineers, construction contractors, and architects who find themselves in need of guidance in administering a design-build project. It will assist those professionals who actually do the designing, the building, and the contract administration. It organizes the options so that the advantages and disadvantages are highlighted, providing the user the necessary information to make sound business decisions.

Building --- Buildings --- Construction contracts. --- Design-build --- Contracts and subcontracts --- Project management --- Quality control --- Construction management --- Building design --- Owners --- Case studies --- Superintendence.

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Above all else, this pocket guide to proven, successful construction team supervision focuses on that extremely hard-to-define quality, "Leadership." These 50 time-proven tips from a construction industry veteran on how to motivate, how to get your team of workers to do what needs to be done--correctly and successfully-- will give the new and experienced supervisor alike a set of tools that can be put to immediate use.

Construction industry --- Construction industry --- Management. --- Construction Management --- Crew Supervision --- Project Supervision --- Project Management --- Critical Path Method --- Value Engineering --- Communicating with Subordinates --- Directing Subordinates --- Evaluating Subordinates --- Counseling Subordinates --- Mentoring Subordinates --- Analyzing Work --- Teams --- Light Construction Glossary

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"House Rating Schemes" provides information to students, architects and researchers in the field of the built environment. It reviews current House Rating Schemes (HRS) used in different countries and investigates how these schemes assess the thermal performance of a house. It challenges the way that these schemes assess building energy efficiency and their inability to evaluate free running buildings which do not need an energy load for heating and cooling indoor environments. Finally, the book proposes a new index and method for HRS in which the efficiency of a house design can be evaluated with reference to its thermal performance in both free running and conditioned operation modes. The book deals with various approaches and methods for rating buildings on the basis of different indexes, with implications for both energy efficiency and thermal comfort. It also guides readers through a computer simulation program for developing a rating system that evaluates and ranks building energy efficiency.

Dwellings -- Energy conservation. --- Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation. --- Dwellings --- Renewable energy sources --- Sustainable development --- Mechanical Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mechanical Engineering - General --- Civil Engineering --- Electrical Engineering --- Energy conservation --- Energy consumption --- Renewable energy sources. --- Sustainable development. --- Engineering. --- Renewable energy resources. --- Buildings. --- Electric power production. --- Building --- Construction industry --- Construction superintendence. --- Alternate energy sources. --- Green energy industries. --- Energy Technology. --- Building Types and Functions. --- Sustainable Development. --- Construction Management. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Superintendence. --- Management. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Green energy industries --- Energy industries --- Building superintendence --- Construction superintendence --- Construction superintending --- Electric power generation --- Electricity generation --- Power production, Electric --- Electric power systems --- Electrification --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Environmental aspects --- Management --- Architecture. --- Energy Systems. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Design and construction --- Energy systems. --- Building—Superintendence. --- Construction industry—Management. --- Built environment