DR. AHMAD HADAVI
Associate Director, Master of Project Management
Adjunct Professor , Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: a-hadavi@northwestern.edu
Phone: 847-467-3219
Education:
- B.S., Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Civil Engineering
- M.B.A., Harvard-affiliated Iran Center for Management Studies, Tehran, Iran
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, Construction Management
Research Interests:
- Productivity Improvement
- Labor Motivational Techniques
- Construction Cost Engineering
- Construction Methods and Innovations
- International Construction
Teaching:
- CIV_ENG-435 Cost Engineering and Control
- CIV_ENG-336 Project Scheduling
Recent Publications:
- "Whole Life Cycle Cost for Chicago Type Bascule Bridges", Cost Engineering, Vol. 50, No. 4, April 2008, pp. 28-32. (with R. J. Krizek, D. A. Novick, and Y. Zhang)
- "Educating Project Managers for the Construction Industry", Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Global Colloquium, Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-4, 2007, (with R. J. Krizek)
- "Educating Project Managers for the Construction Industry", Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24-27, 2007 (with R. J. Krizek)
- "Chinese Construction Firms in Reform", Journal of Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 24, May 2006, pp. 509-519, (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "A Comparative Study of Market Structure in the Chinese Construction Industry", Proceedings of the CIB W107 International Symposium on Construction in Developing Countries: New Issues and Challenges, Santiago, Chile, January 18-20, 2006 (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "Chinese Construction Firms in Reform", Proceedings of the CIB W107 International Symposium on Construction in Developing Countries: New Issues and Challenges, Santiago, Chile, January 18-20, 2006 (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Bridges and Tunnels", Proceedings of the ASCE Construction Research Congress, San Diego, California, April 5-7, 2005, pp. 131-135. (with R. J. Krizek, D. A. Novick, and Y. Zhang)
- "The Chinese Construction from the Perspective of Industrial Organization", ASCE Construction Research Council Symposium , Nashville , TN , November 2003. (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "Firm Size Distribution in the Chinese Construction Industry", Knowledge Construction, Proceedings of the Joint International Symposium of CIB Working Commissions W55, W65 and W107, Singapore, 22-24 October 2003, Vol. 2 pp. 690-701 . (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "Objectives and Behavior of Chinese Construction Firms", Knowledge Construction, Proceedings of the Joint International Symposium of CIB Working Commissions W55, W65 and W107, Singapore, 22-24 October 2003, Vol. 2 pp. 318-328 . (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "E-Economy Supply Chain Collaboration for the Construction Industry ", Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers Specialty Conference on Fully Integrated Automated Processes in Civil Engineering, Blacksburg , VA , September 2001, pp. 406-414. (with C.-H. Chao, and R. J. Krizek)
- "Strategic Knowledge Management for Supply Chain Collaboration in the Construction Industry ", Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Fully Integrated Automated Processes in Civil Engineering, Blacksburg , VA , September 2001, pp. 397-405. (with C.-H. Chao, and R. J. Krizek)
- "Toward a Supply Chain Collaboration in the E-Business Era for the Construction Industry", Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2000, pp. 1183-1188 (with C.-H. Chao, and R. J. Krizek)
- "Construction Industry Business Processes Modeled with Object-Oriented Approach", Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2000, pp. 1059-1064 (with C.-H. Chao, R. J. Krizek, and W. Lo)
- "Effects of High Prequalification Requirements", Journal of Construction Management and Economics, Volume 17, Reading, England, 1999, pp. 603-612. (with W. Lo and R. J. Krizek)
- "Incorporation of Non-Destructive Evaluation in Pontis Bridge Management System", Proceedings of 1998 SMT III: A Non-Destructive Testing Conference, March 1998, San Antonio, TX, pp. 464-471.
