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외국인 근로자의 스트레스를 생체신호로 측정하는 안전 연구

06/2021 - 02/2024 

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: National Research Foundation of Korea
  • The purpose of this study is to measure the stress that causes unsafe behaviors of foreign workers in the construction industry by physiological signals. 

플랜트 사업 전주기 디지털 트랜스포메이션 기술개발 기획

04/2021 - 03/2022 

  • Role: Co-PI
  • Funding Agency: Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA)
  • The purpose of this study is to develop the scope of an R&D project for digital transformation for the whole plant project life cycle. Specifically, digital transformation for the EPC projects that connects and integrates information from Engineering, Procurement, and Construction with the focus on Construction will be investigated. 

09/2020 - 11/2020 

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: Youngshine D&C 
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate construction equipment accidents. Specifically, this study analyzes construction equipment accident data and conducts field expert interviews. Based on the data analyses and interviews, this study investigates the causes of equipment accidents and develops scenarios on how those accidents occur. Based on the investigation, requirements for certain types of technologies to prevent accidents are proposed. 

09/2020 - 12/2020 

  • Role: Co-PI
  • Funding Agency: Seoul Institute of Technology 
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest plans to prevent accidents in construction sites. For this, this study collects and analyzes accident data. Based on the data analyses and field expert interviews, this study proposes plans that public project owners can implement for preventing accidents. 

04/2019 - 11/2020 

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: POSCO E&C 
  • The purpose of this study is to develop and customize the AWP system for the funding agency. Based on the benchmarking of AWP case studies, this study  proposes the work flow suitable for the newly developed AWP system. In addition, the benefits of AWP implementation are measured.  

02/2019 - 06/2019

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: Daewoo E&C
  • The purpose of this study is to quantify the impact of DSC technologies. By analyzing changes in the processes adopting the DSC technologies, this study quantifies the benefits from the adoption. The benefits are classified into three categories: tangible benefits directly calculated from the processes, tangible benefits indirectly calculated by scenarios and company-level data, and intangible benefits which are not monetized.

10/2018 - 12/2019 

  • Role: Co-PI
  • Funding Agency: Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA)
  • Amount: about $30,000   
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the project process design of smart cities in terms of portfolio, program, and project. Specifically, the study investigates the development of smart city project delivery guidelines, development of an impact analysis tool for the smart city operation, and development of the smart city project operation model.

06/2017 - 05/2020 

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: Ministry of Education
  • Amount: about $150,000 (for 3 years)  
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the fall accidents. Specifically, by using accidents data, this study investigates various dimensions presumably related to the fall accidents and labor's behavior on using personal protective equipment.


09/2014 - 02/2017

  • Role: Co-PI
  • Funding Agency: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
  • Amount: about $2,200,000 (for 4 years) 
  • The purpose of this study is to develop human resource for overseas construction and engineering. The curriculum for the department of construction has been developed. Students in the department get financial support from this project (tuition and internship opportunity).

08/2014 - 08/2015

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
  • Amount: about $164,000 
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a training program for construction management (CM). The program, customized for Cambodia, was applied by educating  20 people working in the Cambodian construction industry for two weeks in Seoul, Korea.

01/2013 - 12/2013

  • Role: PI
  • Funding Agency: Construction Industry Institute
  • Amount: $16,000/year
  • The purpose of this study is to reinvigorate the benchmarking efforts for Construction Industry Institute (CII). This will form the point of departure for the next phase benchmarking research in the CII Performance Assessment.

08/2012 - 10/2014

  • Role: PI (Subcontract through Chung-Ang University)
  • Funding Agency: Korea Institute of Construction and Transportation Technology Evaluation and Planning
  • Amount: \6,000,000 (about $55,500)
  • The purpose of this study is to compare CO2 emission for various construction processes in the airport pavement construction.

01/2012 - 08/2013 

  • Role: Co-PI (PI: Dr. Emre Bayraktar)
  • Funding Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
  • Amount: $149,959
  • The purpose of this study is to determine vibration limits for structures and buried utilities, determine anticipated vibration levels generated by foundation and pavement construction equipment and prediction methodologies, and evaluate mitigation techniques.

04/2008 - 07/2011

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. William O’Brien)
  • Funding Agency: Construction Industry Institute (CII)
  • This study provides a systematic assessment of integration-technology adoption. Two tools developed by the research help organizations assess their processes and evaluate integration opportunities in consideration of market/legal, organizational and process, and people-related issues. By applying the tools to practical cases, the study identifies major benefits and hindrances of information integration implementation in the construction industry. As a graduate research assistant, I developed one tool in Microsoft Excel, and collected and validated cases through interviews. I was also involved in publishing CII reports.

01/2008 - 04/2009 

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Mulva and Dr. William O’Brien)
  • Funding Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) / CII
  • This study measured the combined impacts of automation/integration technologies and best practices use on productivity. It provides evidence of complementarity between IT use and best practices on construction projects performance. My tasks in this research included (a) questionnaire development, (b) data collection and validation, (c) data analyses, and (d) report publication.

09/2006 - 08/2009

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. Stephen Mulva)
  •  Funding Agency: CII Benchmarking & Metrics Team
  • This research seeks to develop a benchmarking system for downstream oil and gas projects. The system benchmarks downstream processes such as hydrotreater, sulfer recovery unit, and coker, as well as general downstream projects. My tasks for this research include (a) metric value normalization, (b) design benchmarking key report, (c) questionnaire management, and (d) data validation.
  • Participating companies: Aramco Services, Chevron, CITGO, ConocoPhilips, Marathon Oil, Petrobras, and Shell.

09/2006 - 08/2009

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. Stephen Mulva)
  • This research was involved with developing project-performance metrics and measurement systems for capital projects, validating and analyzing project data, and investigating the value of best practices. As a graduate research assistant, I worked on validating project data, preparing benchmarking key reports and training, analyzing value of best practices project data as well as assisting with the annual CII conference.

09/2005 - 08/2006 

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. William O’Brien)
  • Funding Agency: NIST and CII
  • This research produced a comprehensive set of information based on actual project-execution experiences that documents the added value of automation and integration technologies through their impacts on key project outcomes?such as cost, schedule, rework, and safety.  As a graduate research assistant, I mainly performed data analyses and report publication.

09/2003 - 08/2005 

  • Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisors: Dr. Jorge G. Zornberg) 
  • This research compared pullout strength of geogrid with and without in-plane drainage capacity in cohesive soil.