Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David Wesley Martin, Central Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

showed that the students as a group became more collaborative in their conflict management styles between their junior and senior years.IntroductionMarket forces within the construction industry are demanding more collaborative environments.Construction Management at Risk, Design/Build, Lean Construction, and Integrated ProjectDelivery (IPD), now account for most of all construction contracts.1 In particular, IPD requires asignificant level of collaboration to succeed. However, these increasingly collaborative projectdelivery systems do not ensure collaboration. For example, Lean Construction proponentsfrequently employ the principles of IPD and have positively impacted the construction industry,but success does not occur on every

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

M. Scott Stanford P.E., United States Air Force Academy; Joel Sloan P.E., United States Air Force Academy; James B. Pocock, United States Air Force Academy; M. Mark Russell P.E., DFCE

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering

preconstruction planning documentssuch as preliminary schedule, cost estimate, and site utilization plan. After delivering theirwritten deliverables in the evening, teams then give an oral presentation the following day to thepanel of industry judges. Participating in this intense competition offers significant benefits for the civilengineering program. First, a portion of the program’s graduates gain valuable exposure toindustry problems and strengthen their design, construction, and project management expertise.Second, the department benefits from networking with similar programs in the region. Third, andmost applicable for this paper, the department gains a core set of student leaders who will serve acritical role in the department’s