Optimal preventive maintenance, repair, and replacement program for catch basins to reduce urban flooding: integrating agent-based modeling and Monte Carlo …

G Assaf, RH Assaad - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urban sprawl has resulted in great losses of vegetation areas, an increase in impervious
surfaces, and consequently the direct flow of stormwater into stream channels (ie, the …

Developing a Scoring Framework to Assess the Feasibility of the Design–Build Project Delivery Method for Bundled Projects

G Assaf, RH Assaad - Journal of Management in Engineering, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Project bundling has been introduced as an innovative approach that groups several
infrastructure projects into a single contract. Project bundling has numerous benefits such as …

Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Project Bundling: Modeling and Discovering Key Patterns Using Unsupervised Machine Learning

G Assaf, RH Assaad, F Karaa - Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Project bundling is a strategy that combines several infrastructure projects into a single
contract to improve the overall performance of projects. While previous research efforts have …

Improving the Predictive Analytics of Machine-Learning Pipelines for Bridge Infrastructure Asset Management Applications: An Upstream Data Workflow to Address …

X Hu, RH Assaad - Journal of Bridge Engineering, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
The increasing availability of bridge data from the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) offers a
great opportunity to perform predictive analytics (such as bridge deterioration prediction) …

Enhancing construction organizations' performance through strategic decision-making: unveiling the mediating role of quality of information

TD Moshood, JOB Rotimi, W Shahzad - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Formulating strategic decisions poses a significant challenge for construction
organizations, profoundly impacting their overarching strategic management. The success of …

A decision-support system for choosing between traditional and alternative project delivery methods for bundled projects

G Assaf, RH Assaad - Engineering, Construction and Architectural …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Project bundling is an innovative practice that groups or bundles several
infrastructure projects into a single contract. While project bundling has various benefits …

Analyzing the critical success factors affecting project bundling performance of infrastructure projects

G Assaf, RH Assaad - Journal of Construction Engineering and …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Project bundling is an innovative project-delivery approach that bundles and groups
different infrastructure projects into a single contract. Project bundling provides numerous …

Determining Critical Cascading Effects of Flooding Events on Transportation Infrastructure Using Data Mining Algorithms

RH Assaad, M Mohammadi, G Assaf - Journal of Infrastructure …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
Transportation infrastructures and operations can be severely impacted during flood events,
leading to significant disruptions to the flow of goods and services. Although numerous …

Modeling and Understanding Dispute Causation in the US Public–Private Partnership Projects

M Abdul Nabi, RH Assaad… - Journal of Infrastructure …, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
The partnership between the public and private sectors has led to a new and innovative way
of delivering infrastructure projects that is referred to as public–private partnership (PPP) …

Development and validation of a heat resilience index: Measuring communities resilience to extreme heat events

G Assaf, RH Assaad - Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2024 - ascelibrary.org
The level of preparedness of communities to heat-related consequences varies. While
several studies have developed heat vulnerability indices, little-to-no research efforts were …