
Harrison MesaPontifical Catholic University of Chile | UC · Escuela de Construcción Civil
Harrison Mesa
Doctor of Philosophy
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November 2016 - present
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August 2010 - July 2016
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A proper identification, assessment, and allocation of risks are essential for reducing the likelihood of time and cost overruns. Aiming for lowering the overall cost of claims and disputes, this study aims for the identification, assessment, and allocation of the risks in private building projects in Chile. Based on a thorough examination of the l...
The traditional design approach faces difficulties in adequately responding to the value expected by customers. This research explores the generation and loss of value in the traditional housing design to understand how it responds to customer needs based on different conditions of satisfaction and identify the most common value losses. The novel V...
Target value design (TVD) is a management approach that applies target costing in the design and construction industry. TVD enables a project environment with favorable characteristics to generate value. However, because the TVD's primary assessment is cost, target cost can be met without necessarily achieving the project's full value. This researc...
Public projects continually face multiple difficulties for their satisfactory completion. One of the most complex challenges is early contract termination (ECT), which delays social goods delivery and exhausts public resources. This study aimed to determine the root causes of the critical factors that lead to ECT in public building projects. We stu...
Public–Private Partnership (PPP) programs have been developed widely for more than 30 years across the world. The continuity of these programs depends on an adequate balance of three-dimensional sustainability (i.e., economic, environmental, and social). Nevertheless, social sustainability has been demonstrated as being fragile because of the chall...
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have motivated diverse bibliometric analyses of PPP research. Nevertheless, the evolution and connections between the main topics in the PPP domain have not been explored. To improve the understanding of the PPP research agenda, this study uses Content Analysis (CA) and Semantic Network Analysis (SNA) to expose re...
The supply chain relationship is an essential factor in the performance of Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). The IPD system encourages the early involvement of key participants in the design stage. Consequently, this early involvement requires a new configuration of the supply chain relationship in the IPD system. However, there is a lack of knowl...
Risk allocation plays a crucial role in the successful development of public-private partnership (PPP) projects. However, despite being an important topic for scholars and practitioners, the existing literature does not provide sufficient evidence on how managing risks in solicited (SP) and unsolicited (USP) road PPP projects, and subsequently, on...
The architecture, engineering, and construction industry requires methods that link the capture of customer requirements with the continuous measurement of the value generated and the identification of value losses in the design process. A value analysis model (VAM) is proposed to measure the value creation expected by customers and to identify val...
Among the current challenges associated with design in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is the need for an adequate understanding of the value required by involved customers to avoid decreases in productivity and value losses in the process and product. This paper describes the development of a value analysis model with...
Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Lean Project Delivery (LPD) are innovative approaches that are capturing the attention of the construction industry. However, there is a confusion about the definitions of these approaches and how they integrate a project delivery process. This confusion negatively affects the learning process, which could crea...
Many building projects do not meet owners' performance expectations. Integrated project delivery (IPD) has emerged as a new delivery system with the potential to provide better performance through more supply chain integration. However, there is a knowledge gap surrounding how project delivery systems, IPD in particular, affect supply chain relatio...
Clear definition of any new philosophy, tool or method applied in the management of projects is required for successful implementation. Distinguishing the traditional practice based on the Critical Path Method from new practices inspired on Lean Project Delivery is important to explain, understand and support its growing acceptance. Lean Constructi...
Many authors suggest that to overcome the problems of the construction industry such as adversarial relationships, low rates of productivity, lack of cooperation, ineffective communications, etc., it is necessary to move toward a better coordination of participants and more collaborative and integrated approaches (e.g. Lean Project Delivery (LPD))....
Project management standardization processes for a young development division within a large
Colombian construction firm were based on conceptual frames, firm´s experience and collaborative
efforts. A best practices survey under project life cycle process mapping was conducted to integrate
project manager functions, guide linkages between operation...
Project management standardization processes for a young development division within a large Colombian construction firm were based on conceptual frames, firm´s experience and collaborative efforts. A best practices survey under project life cycle process mapping was conducted to integrate project manager functions, guide linkages between operation...
Value generation in construction productive processes counts on identification, measurement and loss reduction as some of its main principles. Traditionally, sample gathering is done through work direct observation as being done by the working crew, identification of resources flow, or through surveys made to foremen. The time lapse technique, allo...
Activities are in progress to develop digital simulation of the construction of structural walls and slabs made of concrete, in building projects of a Colombian construction firm. In an initial project, the models that were generated allowed to produce recommendations to reduce the total construction time. At present another simulation process is c...
It is well known that the performance of production systems in construction is strongly affected by variability, interdependence and uncertainty. For that reason, discrete-event simulation is useful for modelling the behaviour of production systems, and understanding the combined effects of those factors. This paper describes two case studies carri...
Activities are in progress to develop digital simulation of the construction of structural walls and slabs made of concrete, in building projects of a Colombian construction firm. In an initial project, the models that were generated allowed to produce recommendations to reduce the total construction time. At present another simulation process is c...