Residents of Minnesota often joke that the state has two seasons, winter and road construction. The joke has more than a grain of truth: Harsh winters take a high toll on our state’s highways, and the warm months are consequently filled with an intense burst of road construction and repair. This second season also exacts a high toll, and the price is paid by Minnesota motorists who suffer painf...

Numerous performance measurement systems have been expanding over the years. Therefore, they often contain more information than needed as well as irrelevant information. The consequences are high complexity in cognitively processing the enclosed measures and unnecessary costs for operating and maintaining the supporting infrastructure. Against this backdrop, we propose a decision framework tha...

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...

Breakwaters are the important and the costly ones of the marine structures. Composite breakwater is one of the common types in the world. Because of the progress in marine industry in Iran in recent years, designers have noticed this structure. Because of the sensitivity of composite breakwater to environmental conditions, also construction costs, difficulty of repair and maintenance and import...

external costs of environmental degradation are often ignored in economic analysis of projects. the mail goal of the paper is to economically analyze the current alternatives of meighan wetland utilization including extraction of sodium sulfate, aquaculture of artemia and integrative alternative considering external costs of wetland degradation. in order to detect eventual degradation of wetlan...

We update the cost of nuclear power as calculated in the MIT (2003) Future of Nuclear Power study. Our main focus is on the changing cost of construction of new plants. The MIT (2003) study provided useful data on the cost of then recent builds in Japan and the Republic of Korea. We provide similar data on later builds in Japan and the Republic of Korea as well as a careful analysis of the fore...

OBJECTIVE To describe injuries of teens employed in the residential construction industry and to assess whether their injury experiences are significantly different from those of adults in this high risk industry. METHODS AND SETTING North Carolina homebuilders workers' compensation data for a 41 month period were analyzed. Injuries of teens were identified and described by body part injured,...