Browsing by Author "Fernandez-Solis, Jose L."
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L. (2023-11-21)This article links current understanding of major factors that cross critical climate thresholds: 1. Earth’s Anthropocene Epoch of exponential and unsustainable population, consumption, waste, and emissions damaging Earth ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Hasan, Kashif; Rybkowski, Zofia (2018-03-16)Literature search indicates that Main Street Program (MSP) is considered to be successful in achieving the goals of ‘preferred place to live’ and ‘increased active living’. The four point approach of MSP, (organization, ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Ricon Fonseca, Jorge; Mulepati, Manjil (2020-02-04)Popper’s (1972) analytical process of conjecture and refutations highlight how a problem begets a solution that engenders new problems. Efforts, in theory and practice, to increase construction productivity at the strategic ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Lavy, Sarel (2018-03-15)Sustainability has been defined by various institutions as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. This is a soft qualitative definition. It has ...
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The Children’s Hospital X Project: A Case Study in Benefit and Cost Analysis of a Lean-IPD Project Ai, Di (2014-04-24)Lean processes have been utilized in healthcare design and construction, bringing both benefits and costs to the owners of healthcare projects. It is important to understand and detect the benefits and costs associated ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Gadhok, Nipun (2018-03-15)Lean and Six Sigma have been recognized as innovative strategies that can be used to transform a firm’s management practices to a newer level. However, there is little guidance, or evidence indicating whether Lean or Six ...
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The Content and Visibility of Green Building Practices on Commercial Construction Company Websites Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Lavy, Sarel; Jogunoori, Pushkin (2018-03-15)The number of buildings being erected using sustainable principles has risen, in part due, to environmentally conscious consumers and government incentives. For construction companies wanting to provide green building ...
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Gottipati, Udaya Naidu (2011-10-21)Target costing is widely accepted across the automobile manufacturing industries such as the Toyota Corporation followed by other manufacturing companies such as Nissan, Chrysler, Boeing, Sony, etc. However, its use in the ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Du, Jing; Rincon Fonseca, Jorge L. (2018-03-15)Construction labor productivity has declined over the last 50 years. Contrary to mainstream reporting of significant improvement in construction project productivity through inventions, techniques, methods, and technologies, ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Ma, Min; Du, Jing (2018-03-15)Design-Build (DB) and Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) are two widely used alternative project delivery systems in the construction industry. Previous studies have found inconclusive results on which of the two has ...
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Castelo Branco, Cristiano Ribeiro (2009-05-15)This research consists of an investigation on the incidence of residential construction waste in Texas. Construction waste has proved to have a negative effect on the economic health of construction companies and on the ...
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Prakash, Ramya (2011-08-08)Lean construction borrows concepts from lean manufacturing and Toyota Production System in order to eliminate waste and add value to the construction process. Manufacturing processes utilizing lean principles have matured ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Prakash, Ramya; McGowan, Anne (2018-03-15)Safety and lean aim at similar goals in making the construction process faster, better and safer (Main et al. 2008). This research intends to answer the basic question: “Is there a relationship between lean and safety ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L. (2018-03-15)Plan unreliability is a crucial problem in construction industry. As the industry is fragmented and every project is unique, schedule delay is common phenomenon in the industry. Ballard and Howell proposed that shielding ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L. (2018-03-15)A recent study of chaos in construction as a project production process and system has raised a valid question: Is construction production really complex or just complicated? More importantly, how do we know which one is ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Kim, Bo Young (2023)This paper investigates four critical questions: First, has the amount of solar irradiance that the Earth receives (Global horizontal irradiance) increased over time? This question requires that scientific instruments have ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Tupe, Harshavardhan (2018-03-15)Safety remains a major challenge in the construction industry throughout the world. Recent government statistics have revealed a high rate of fatalities in the U.S. construction industry. This study investigates the root ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L. (2018-03-15)Necessity, when assigned to teach a large introductory class in Construction Science, required I learn quickly the requisite instructional technology and its application. The title, “Reflective Practitioner” is an anachronism ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L. (2018-08-13)The Little Ice Age, a snowball earth, and icehouse phenomena requires causal explanations, which have eluded scientists up to now. A serious deficiency exists with current global warming theories. Current theories are ...
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Fernandez-Solis, Jose L.; Lagoo, Nishi (2018-03-15)A major challenge faced by project managers is balancing the variables of scope, cost, and schedule. Changes in scope usually result in cost/schedule overruns. Variance in either or both of them creates disorder (typically ...