Javad Majrouhi Sardroud

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• BSc MSc PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch

Facility layout planning is crucial in construction projects due to its significant impact on project time and cost. The strategic location and capacity selection of tower cranes, given their high cost, are essential components of this process, alongside the placement of material supply point. Addressing this complex, combinatorial, and NP-hard dec...

The surge in construction expenditures on the one hand and environmental pollution on the other hand have led to the suggestion of native structures in accordance, which is common in advanced countries. In this research, the meta-heuristic method is used to select the optimal design based on the objective functions determined in four structural fra...

Digital Twin (DT) technology, as the evolution of Building Information Modeling (BIM), has emerged to address global concerns regarding the environmental impacts of the construction industry and to meet sustainability indicators. Despite numerous studies targeting the integration of DT and sustainability, there is a noticeable gap in creating a com...

The construction industry presents a significant environmental challenge due to its substantial environmental footprint, utilization of limited natural resources, and contribution to pollution and climate change. Additionally, optimizing the weight, cost, and duration of construction is crucial for enhancing serviceability, flexibility, efficiency,...

The construction industry has made significant improvements in adopting and integrating emerging technologies. One example is the wide use of Building Information Modeling (BIM), which offers numerous benefits to the construction industry. BIM assists project teams in achieving better quality with lower risk, shorter timeframes, and reduced costs....

This study aims to help project-oriented organizations manage their portfolios and arrive at an optimum budget allocation. In this study, the budget allocation process in a portfolio of projects is mathematically formulated. The interactions between the projects as well as the operational and budget constraints are considered. Then, the optimal bud...

High expectations from employers and complex communication between stakeholders in the construction industry, resulted in fundamental changes during the design and construction process. Excellence in communication and coordination is required between stakeholders and automated interdisciplinary change management to meet needs and expectations in th...

Acquiring the convenience of life and work leads science to ever-increasing development. Not only for end-users, smart homes provide comfort for occupants through the remote controlling of home appliances and saving cost and resources but also technologies could facilitate the whole building life-cycle management from inception to demolition. Exper...

Today, global warming causes unpredictable climate changes and issues, such as torrential rains, that leads professionals to anticipate future needs to control sudden floods. In this regard, to reduce the impacts of these consequences, and secure residents, a perfect surface water collection system is crucial. In this paper, the application of buil...

This paper describes the experimental investigation of steel pallet rack beam-to-column connec-tions. Total behavior of moment-rotation (M-φ) curve and the effect of particular characteristics on the behavior of connection were studied and the associated load strain relationship and corre-sponding failure modes are presented. In this respect, an es...

The Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry has implemented vertical Building Information modeling (BIM) to increase the productivity and overcome the backwardness compared to other industries. The benefits of BIM deployment as a process in the AEC industry have caused the Non-Building (NB) industry to shift toward use of this co...

Nowadays, Building Information Modeling (BIM) facilitates project management by the help of an interdisciplinary smart tools and technologies in an nD environment not only in the engineering phase, but also in the construction phase. Also, automation in construction provides a trustworthy bedrock in the pre-construction phase to explore reliable qu...

Building information modeling (BIM) has improved efficiency in construction projects by utilizing digital instrument capabilities. However, the use of this technology has brought new challenges, particularly legal and contract issues. Conventional construction contracts cannot respond to specific BIM conditions. Therefore, several contract solution...

Purpose Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are notoriously prone to disputes among stakeholders, some of which may unduly jeopardize contract performance. Contract disputes arising in Iran are often due to inefficiency of PPP concession agreements and practice. This study presents a causal-predictive model of the root causes and preventive measures...

The modern world has given rise to a new phenomenon known as ‘divergence of sciences’, meaning that various scientific activities occasionally affect a particular matter in different and sometimes contradictory ways. Considering this phenomenon, this paper discusses the relationships between the mutual interplay of legal, managerial, and engineerin...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has created a fundamental change in the field of designing and management of construction projects. Due to the visual and parametric capabilities of BIM, it improves the efficiency of the task. In the design phases, the BIM drawings and plans prepared by individual designers, are integrated and reviewed in a fed...

Design coordination and clash detection are the most common and appreciated applications of three-dimensional modeling (3D modeling). In some projects, millions of clashes are detected including a large number of irrelevant clashes. The purpose of this research is to determine the priority of resolving clashes before the construction phase. In this...

Purpose The site layout has a significant impact on the efficiency of construction operations. Planning an effective site layout partly involves identifying and positioning temporary facilities such as tower cranes and areas on the jobsite for materials storage. This study proposes an approach to optimizing the type and location of the tower crane...

The purpose of this research is to select the optimal combination of infrastructure and equipment to upgrade a shipbuilding yard to repair offshore drilling rigs considering installation time and cost of the equipment needed and the overhaul cost and time of a rig. These four components constitute a four-objective problem. To solve this problem, a...

According to available statistics and forecasts, in the next three decades, we will see a significant increase in urban population worldwide; this increase varies depending on the geographical location of the region. Undoubtedly, this huge population jump and migration of people to urban areas cause the emergence of different challenges such as sus...

Understanding the link between the smart cities concept and the concern of smart infrastructures of Public–Private Partnership (PPP) has long been a challenge to funding and financing. This concern is about determining priority or latency between business model categories, funding, and financing options, as well as selecting infrastructure implemen...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been created to increase the efficiency and use the abilities of the digital tools in construction projects and is improving more and more. In addition to the benefits of this technology, some new challenges have been rosed most of which are related to legal and contractual issues. The routine contracts of th...

Delays in the execution stage of road construction projects are one of the significant challenges. The incapability of finishing projects according to schedule has attracted many researchers’ attention to this issue. This study has been formed to investigate delays in road construction projects from a risk management perspective. In this study, ris...

Residential buildings consume a major portion of energy resources and hence are seriously involved in environmental pollution. In Iran, fossil fuel consumption is growing, such that it increased by more than 400% from 1990 to 2018. One of the fundamental solutions for reducing fossil fuel consumption and creating a healthy environment inside and ou...

This study was conducted to investigate the load-bearing capacity of a single angle column under various loading conditions to determine the loading condition offering the highest load- bearing capacity. In all cases, the load is transferred through one leg (or two legs) of the angle which has a smaller cross-sectional area compared to the total ar...

Residential buildings consume a major portion of energy resources and hence are seriously involved in environmental pollution. In Iran, the consumption of fossil fuels is on the rise, to the extent that it has grown by more than 400% from 1990 to 2018. One of the fundamental solutions for reducing fossil fuel consumption and creating a healthy envi...

Building maintenance includes actions that aim to ensure the components of a building are in acceptable conditions. In traditional maintenance methods, as-built drawings and maintenance manuals are regarded as essential documents for the operation and maintenance of buildings. In this method, the time and cost of facilities management are increased...

The implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the building industry (AEC) is growing rapidly. The Oil, Gas and Petrochemical industry (OGPi), however, is still lagging in harnessing the BIM capabilities. Therefore, the main question of this research is: How and what actions should be adopted for deploying BIM in the OGPi? The researc...

Nowadays, with the growth of population and urban amenities, the population of cities, urbanization, and the need for urban infrastructures are increasing. The infrastructures are essential to make cities more efficient and have undeniable effects on cities’ productivity, economy, and security. On the other hand, with the development of digital tec...

The concrete formwork process is a critical component of construction project control because failing to gain the necessary concrete strength can lead to reworks and, consequently, project delays and cost overruns during the project’s execution. The goal of this study is to develop a novel method of monitoring the maturity of concrete and providing...

Identifying, tracking, controlling, and managing facilities and the associated problems are critical tasks in the facility management. In addition, the information of facilities maintenance needs to be constantly updated, which leads to an extra workload for staff using paper and 2D drawings. To overcome these challenges, a BIM/RFID-based system is...

Nowadays, the very low reliability of the project planning in certainty-based approaches, caused to use more intelligent methods for uncertainty management in construction projects. This systematic study aims to survey the methods which have been used to manage the uncertainties in time estimation of construction projects. A series of steps were un...

The oil and gas service industry revenue is projected to rise to $350 billion in 2020, and a major part of such services belong to repair and maintenance (R&M) of the drilling rigs. Therefore, with regard to the number of jack-up rigs in Iran and the Persian Gulf, the R&M and improvement of these types of rigs become particularly important, especia...

Since the protection the of human being from natural disaster and atmospheric factors have become an essential requirement, some attempts have been taken place to provide shelter and create a safe environment to a more comfortable life with welfare. For this purpose, using existing resources in nature and exploiting them in a different manner have...

Developed nations acknowledge sustainable development as a legal right for current and future generations. Although instances of domestic and international efforts are prevalent, there is a long way to go before accomplishing developmental ideals. A practical approach for realizing the vital goals of sustainable development is of the utmost importa...

Nanotechnology will serve as a suitable solution to achieve high performance in future construction. Using this new technology results in creativity and innovation in the construction industry. One of these new technologies is the smart concrete which has received much emphasis in recent years. Many research and experiments have been conducted in s...

The Oil, Gas and Petrochemical (OGP) projects are more complex than Architectural, Engineering and Con-struction (AEC) projects. Therefore, the use of methods and technologies that can execute the OGP projects at an acceptable level of risk within all the constraints are much needed. Nowadays, benefits of the modern construction management methods...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) as a new method presents a number of opportunities and challenges for the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. Obviously, there are many issues in the way of implementing BIM. Some of these issues have been largely eliminated over time and by the advancement of related technologies; however...

Time management can be effective in a project when the project schedule is based on comprehensive time scheduling. In the industries with complicated processes, many uncertainties and risks affect the timing of projects. Considering the very low reliability of the project planning in certainty-based approach, using more secure models for control an...

The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is affecting the way in which construction projects are planned, designed, executed and operated. One of the main goals of BIM is to provide, based on a 3D model, an accurate information model in a digital format to give different project participants better tools when evaluating different options to s...

The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) is one of the top ten gas companies in the gas industry in the Middle East and is comprised of 7 gas refineries. So this company needs to apply the most optimum time management methods to achieve its goals. Custom scheduling calculation of project planning uses the Critical Path Method (CPM) as a tool for Pla...

Nowadays, the construction industry has started to embrace IBS as a method of attaining better construction quality and productivity and reducing risks related to occupational safety and health. The built of pre-fabricated component in factories reduces many problems related to lack of purposing uncertainty in scheduling calculation and time manage...

The Nature of construction industry includes uncertainties which result to rework, interfering, waste and other relevant concerns. It has been some decades that we are deploying computer aided programs to minimize the uncertainties and increase the predictability and confidence in Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) related works. Buildi...

Industrialization of buildings could make great contributions to the housing demand where prefabrication and modular construction in factories and then assembling them within the job-site could increase the quality of project implementation and reduce the project time. In other side, the Building Information Modeling (BIM) could be hired as an effe...

As buildings have become more complex, the construction industry has become more specialized, but it is under greater pressure to become more efficient, productive and integrated. Thus, all recent and novel attempts including Lean Construction (LC) philosophy, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method and recently Building Information Modeling (BIM)...

Today, consciousness of the world toward sustainable development derived from climatic changes caused by frantic growth of carbon emission rate has been increased. Developed countries find themselves responsible to fight to have a better and more sustainable future. They have established many sustainable development assessment tools, particularly i...

The traditional methods of construction are not optimized from various aspects. This lack of efficiency throughout the lifetime of a project is evident during the planning, design, implementation and operation phases. To achieve ideal conditions in the construction industry to meet the annual housing demand on the one hand and manage the optimal co...

Introducing the first green building standard in 1990 by U.K, a competition occurred among other developed countries to approach the same aim regarding ecological, economic, cultural, social and environmental considerations. Comparing different green building standards helps to better understanding of how the criterions are selected and analysed. I...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been widely used in various fields of construction management. Building information modeling (BIM) is a set of technologies and organization solutions that are expected to increase affiliation and disciplinary collaboration in the construction industry and to improve the productivity and quality...

شرایط اقلیمی و افزایش جمعیت در جهان باعث بالا رفتن تقاضای آب شده است. مصرف آب در پنجاه سال گذشته سه برابر شده و پیش‌بینی می‌شود این روند سرعت خود را حفظ کند. افزایش تنش آبی (کاهش بارندگی و افزایش تقاضا آب) باعث شده که در بخش‌های مختلف, موضوع حفظ وکاهش مصرف آن موردتوجه دولت‌ها قرار بگیرد. در بخش ساخت‌وساز پایدار، سیستم‌های رتبه‌بندی ساختمان سبز می‌ک...

Industrialization of buildings could make great contributions to the housing demand where prefabrication and modular construction in factories and then assembling them within the job-site could increase the quality of project implementation and reduce the project time. In other side, the Building Information Modeling (BIM) could be hired as an effe...

Research projects have indicated development of several technical solutions for the management of construction activities. However, little attention has been paid to the issues regarding the adoption and implementation of these techniques. This study investigates the perception of Automated Data Collection (ADC) technology usage in construction, an...

Although other industries profit from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in managerial tasks, construction projects are late adopter of this technology. Construction today is becoming increasingly complex. It is therefore under greater pressure than ever before to become more integrated. Adopting RFID could provide real-time and accur...

Construction industry is both highly complex and fragmented compared to other industries, because its products are unique in its construction type, project participants, and location. Modern construction management require collection, analysis and real-time communication of accurate information among all the parties involved. In order to automate t...

Although the collection of a detailed, accurate and sufficient volume of information, and subsequent timely delivery are vital for effective quality control and management in construction, existing methods for material and specimen tests and laboratory activities are manually reliant on the human recourse to paper and pencil. Data collected using m...

Every landslide catastrophe causes a signifi cant loss to human lives and their assets. These losses have increased as human development has expanded into unstable hill slopes. Thus, monitoring of landslides has received great attention over the past years. Water content and pore-water pressure in the slope areas strongly affect the instability of...

Recent research has indicated that even though construction materials and components may constitute more than fifty percent of total project costs, existing methods for managing them still depend on human skills. This traditional data collection is time and labour-intensive, error-prone, and unreliable, due to the reluctance of workforces to monito...

Modern construction management require real-time and accurate information for sharing among all the parties involved to undertake efficient and effective planning as well as execution of the projects. Research projects conducted during the last decade have concluded that information management is a critical factor in construction project performanc...

Across the world, economic and social landslide losses have increased as human development has expanded into unstable onto hill slopes. Every landslide catastrophe produces a significant loss to infrastructures, services and buildings as well as resulting in large numbers of casualties and fatalities. Although ground water level is often a primary...

Construction projects generally take place in uncontrolled and dynamic environments where construction waste is a serious environmental problem in many large cities. The total amount of waste and carbon dioxide emissions from transportation vehicles are still out of control due to increasing construction projects, massive urban development projects...

Construction projects generally take place in uncontrolled and unprepared environments where accurate and timely information are vital to operating a well managed and cost efficient construction project. Automated advanced tracking and data storage technologies such as RFID and GPS give cost-effective, unobtrusive and hazard-free solutions for acqu...

This paper presents a study on applying an integrated application of RFID, GPS and GSM technology for mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous tracking and locating of any objects in construction supply chain and logistics. Accurate and timely identification and tracking of resource are vital to operating a well managed and cost efficient construction proj...

This paper presents a study on applying an integrated application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Position System (GPS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) technology for ubiquitous tracking and location of construction resource (e.g. materials). Accurate and timely identification and tracking of resource (e.g. materials) are...