In according to quantity of various consumption materials in construction sites of complex projects such as oil industry, infrastructure, and large scale commercial, management and monitoring of materials can affect on the final time and cost of project’s activities. In today’s world of rising labor costs and labor shortages, automated materials tracking can provide some advantage to impr...

At a large research laboratory facility the management and control of hazardous materials, and their subsequent wastes can be an unmanageable task. Environmental regulations, mandated by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, established a Federal program to provide comprehensive regulation of hazardous solid waste materials from their generation time to their disposal. In an effor...

Evaluation of Performance Measures for Materials Management Process in Industrial Construction Projects. By. MOHAMMED KASHIF UL ASAD. A Thesis. with evaluating characteristics that are deemed necessary for a supplier to provide a. materials management process have been examined. logistics, performance indicators. total project costs (Construction Industry Institute, 1987). Excellence in Project...

To plan and visualise routes of materials movement in complex construction site is an important consideration in construction project management. The unique complexity of routing materials is burdens on planner and site manager. To address this issue, an study was taken to develop a PC based software tool, named Virtual Construction Material Router (VCMR) that produce sequences of materials rou...

Abstract The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy represents a grand challenge for humankind. For this vision come pass, significant advances in storage technologies such as batteries, which solve the intermittency of energy, need be achieved. Developing new battery materials with higher capacities and longer lifetimes is thus paramount importance. Moreover, presents smart grid mana...