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  • An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Public Housing

    Creator:
    Sharafeddin, Asma
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    Public housing (PH) provides a substantial portion of the housing in both developed and less developed countries, and the demand for it is increasing. The PH projects, however, are facing many challenges that are affecting their performance and cause their failures. The United States has demolished large portions of their...
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    ................................................................. 180 TABLE 11: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS OF SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES FOR FAMILY HOUSING AT OSU -CORVALLIS

  • Evaluating the Feasibility of Mass Timber as a Mainstream Building Material in the US Construction Market: Industry Perception, Cost Competitiveness, and Environmental Performance Analysis

    Creator:
    Ahmed, Shafayet
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    Mass timber has been considered as a promising building material because of its structural rigidity, environmental sustainability, and renewability nature. In Europe and Australia, mass timber materials have been used for many different types of construction such as residential, commercial, education, and industrial. However, the construction practitioners in the U.S....
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    research. Not only that, the classes that I attended with you all were some of the best lessons of my

  • Evaluating Industrialization Rate in Construction: A Quantification Model

    Creator:
    Liu, Ding
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    The concept of construction industrialization, first raised in the 1960s, refers to the transfer of on-site construction work to an off-site factory to improve quality and reduce cost, time, and safety issues. In some countries, industrialization of construction projects is highly recommended and promoted by governments and local construction institutions...
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    industrialization rate (CIR) is associated with construction performance in terms of cost, schedule, safety

  • The effects of land use on stream nitrate concentrations : from the catchment scale to the regional scale

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    Poor, Cara J.
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    This work furthers the understanding of processes occurring in catchments that affect stream nitrate concentrations using two different approaches: a temporally intensive case study of three headwater catchments with varying land use (through storm event monitoring) and a spatially intensive study on the regional scale (through statistical modeling) of 1st-4th...
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    ........................................................... 21 2.2 Characteristics of storm 1 (12/9/2003 to 12/12/2003), 2 (2/23/2004 to 2/25/2004) and 3 (4

  • Investigation of Drilled Shafts under Axial, Lateral, and Torsional Loading

    Creator:
    Li, Qiang
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    Drilled shaft foundations provide significant geotechnical resistance for support of structures, such as highway bridges, traffic sign, and signal pole structures, and are used widely to meet their structural foundation requirements. The amount of steel reinforcement in drilled shaft foundations has increased over the past several decades to account for...
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    Microsoft Word - Dissertation v1.3.docx AN ABSTRACT OF THE

  • A Methodological Approach for Structural Health Monitoring of Mass-Timber Buildings Under Construction

    Creator:
    Baas, Esther J.
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    As mass-timber building construction rises around the globe, there exists the need to verify the long-term, in-situ behavior and performance of these structural systems. Structural health monitoring (SHM), generally defined as a damage detection strategy consisting of a network of sensors, a data acquisition system, and algorithms for data analysis,...
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    University campus that serves the College of Forestry. The building replaces the former Peavy Hall to

  • Cyclic performance of connections used in hybrid cross-laminated timber

    Creator:
    Mahdavifar, Vahid
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    One of the recent additions to the panoply of engineered wood products is cross-laminated timber (CLT). CLT is a prefabricated, large-scale, solid wood panel that consists of multiple layers of lumbers stacked together, with each layer arranged perpendicular to the next layer, glued with structural grade adhesives, and pressed. The...
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    Advanced Wood Products Laboratory at Oregon State University Campus Corvallis, Oregon. While these are

  • Comprehensive Analysis of PM2.5 Pollution from Construction Activities

    Creator:
    Montadka, Nahush Prabhakar
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    The Construction industry is one of the most hazardous industries in the US.Construction workers, on a daily basis, are exposed to numerous risks while performing arange of activities involving construction, alteration, and or repair. Dust and diesel exhaustemissions from construction equipment are considered harmful to the workers in the longrun....
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    conducted by Jarvholm et al. (2003), it was found that the use of enclosed cabins lowered the risk of

  • Degrees of Connectivity : A Systematic Accident Causation Model

    Creator:
    Alomari, Kasim A.
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    With all of the efforts that have been conducted over the past 100 years since the first accident causation theory was published, the Accident Proneness theory by Vernon (1918), the construction still trails among different industries in terms of fatal and nonfatal work injuries. Theories and models that have been...
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    dissertation was performed at Oregon State University (OSU) under the supervision of Professor John Gambatese

  • A socio-technical study on the improved characterization of stakeholder behaviors and stream temperature in design of watershed conservation practices for climate change adaptation

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    Noa-Yarasca, Efrain
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    Characterizing stakeholder behavior when making decisions in watershed management is a great challenge for planners, not only because plans are associated with physical uncertainties but also because stakeholders’ behaviors are influenced by numerous factors. Since stakeholders’ decision-making is linked to multiple types of uncertainty, communication of uncertainty to stakeholders by...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Efrain Noa