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Construction Engineering and Management
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PhD in Civil Engineering
Construction Engineering and Management
Research in Construction Engineering and Management at the University of Southern California presently focuses on "Project Lifecycle Management" and addresses how design, scheduling, estimating, and environmental analysis tools can be utilized and linked to geometric models and how these models become single sources for project documentation, procurement, management, operation, and obsolescence. This is best achieved through a multi-disciplinary research into the development of advanced uses of information technology. Today's construction management tools, methods, processes and organizations need to be improved and integrated in support of multi disciplinary collaboration and demanding needs of today's complex construction projects so that creation and operation of facilities are efficient, performance driven, and environmentally sensitive. The PhD program focuses on the future of information engineering and project management and how information systems will enable larger simulations of integrated practices for solving the world's infrastructural problems.
For more detailed information, please see the iLAB website at <http://i-lab.usc.edu/>.
Research Areas
- Building Design and Construction Management
- Direct digital fabrication, on site and off site systems
- Building Information Models and project information systems
- Facility management systems, delivery of digital "owner's operational and lifecycle manual and tools"
- Laser scanning and real time as built information
- Construction simulation and construction-site logistics simulation
- Sustainable Practices
- Thermal energy and computational fluid dynamic analysis integrations
- Real-time monitoring of heat-gain and dynamic cooling systems integrations
- Pre-emptive identification and simulation of building component failure
- Environmental modeling and analysis
- Infrastructure and Urbanization
- Smart, sustainable, wireless real time cities
- Mobility and transportation modeling and analysis
- GIS/Mapping and information systems, platforms, dashboards and simulations
- Information Management and Technology
- Enterprise systems and open source technologies evaluation
- Design, planning, and engineering interfaces and schemas
- From "closed", "proprietary" solutions to "integrated", "object oriented", "interoperable" solutions
- Model control and maintenance
- Integrated Practice Management
- Process, system and methodology change management, best practices
- Measuring the value of advance technology in the AEC marketplace
- Liabilities, insurance, risk mitigations and contractual changes requisite for integrated practice
- Improved pedagogy/ knowledge capture, integrating professional and research based problems
The Faculty
Selected Publications
- Becerik, B., and Soto-Rosa, G. (2007). "Management and Control Technology for Water/Waste Water Utility Programs", AWWA/WEF Information Management & Technology Conference, March 4–7, 2007, Austin, Texas.
- Becerik, B. (2006). "The Value Assessment of Online Project Management Technology for Construction Projects and Organizations: A Benchmarking Exercise", PICMET ‘06 Conference "Technology Management for the Global Future, Istanbul, Turkey, July 9–13, 2006.
- Becerik, B. (2006). "Computer Aided Collaboration for Managing Construction Projects", (with S.N. Pollalis). Design and Technology Report Series, No. 2006-2, Harvard Design School, Cambridge, MA. (160 pages). ISBN 0-935617-95-7, April 2006.
- Ilich, M., Becerik, B., and Aultman, B. (2006). "Online Collaboration Tools Are Available and Have Proven Their Value: So Why Are We Not Using Them?", Means, Methods and Trends, Publication of Architectural Engineering Institute and the Construction Institute of ASCE, Spring 2006.
- Allen, R. K., Becerik, B., Pollalis, P. N., and Schwegler, B. R. (2005). "The Promise and Barriers to Technology Enabled and Open Project Team Collaboration", Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Legal Affairs Section, October 2005.
- Becerik, B. (2005). "Innovative Use of Construction Project Extranets to Facilitate Project Collaboration and Management", AEC2005, 3rd International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Management, 15–17 June 2005, Rotterdam.
- Becerik, B. (2005). "Usage of Online Collaboration and Project Management Technology to Achieve Success and Gain Competitive Advantage in Virtual Teams: Working in Virtual Space", CIB W102 2005, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in a Global Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for Construction Organizations, 19–20 May, 2005, Lisbon.
- Becerik, B. (2004). "A Review on Past, Present and Future of Web-Based Project Management and Collaboration Tools and their Adoption by the US AEC Industry", International Journal of IT in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Volume 2, Issue 3, October 2004, pp. 233–248.
- Becerik, B. (2004). "Critical Enhancements for Improving Adoption of Online Collaboration and Project Management Technology", Proceedings of 20th Annual Conference of Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 1–3 September 2004, Edinburgh.
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