CEE Professor Ali Touran has been awarded a $235K grant from the Construction Industry Institute (CII) for research on the application of Integrated Project Delivery for Industrial Projects.
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- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1980
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1978
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Tehran University, 1977
- Professional Engineer: Massachusetts
- 2009 President Award, Boston Society of Civil Engineers
- 2006 Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
- 2004 Best Paper Award, ASEE New England Section Annual Conference, Dedham, Mass
- 1999 Person of the Year (1998/1999), CMAA New England Region Chapter
- 1989 The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation Professional Merit Award
- Construction Management
- Cost Analysis
- Scheduling
- Applied Probability
- Simulation
- American Public Works Association
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Boston Society of Civil Engineers
- Construction Management Association of America
- Construction Research Council
- Journal of Construction Engineering & Management, ASCE
- N. Montazeri, A Touran, Multi-Objective Reliability-Based Optimization of Life-cycle Maintenance for Bridges under Cost Uncertainty, Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, 2018, 2003
- Touran, A. and F. Panah, Use of the Alternative Technical Concepts in Transportation Projects, ISEC 9 Conference, 2017
- R. Tapia, D.D. Gransberg, A. Touran, Managing Scheduling Risk due to Geotechnical Uncertainty Using Linear Scheduling, Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2017
- R. Masoumi, A. Touran, A Framework to Form Balanced Project Portfolios, Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2016
- A. Touran, J. Liu, A Method for Estimating Contingency based on Project Complexity, Procedia Engineering, Elsevier, 123, 2015, 574-580
- A.P. Gurgun, A. Touran, Public-Private Partnership Experience in the International Arena: Case of Turkey, Journal of Management in Engineering, 30(6), 2014
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Risk assessment; construction cost/schedule uncertainty; project delivery systems; simulation; construction productivity
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