# overview
Dr. Fernandez-Solis proficiency is in lean production theories and practices, sustainability, theories of chaos, and integrated processes.

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Last Planner System, Challenge Assessment

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Lean Simulation; Target Value Design; Target Cost; Integrated Project Delivery; Marshmallow Tvd Simulation

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Design Build, Project Management At Risk, Cost And Schedule, Case Studies

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Last Planner System, Cash Flow, Construction Management

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Energy Efficiency, Green Buildings, Green Construction, Leed, Leed Nc, Sustainability, Usgbc

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Sustainability Assessments, Weighted Point System, Bayesian Equations, Resource Consumption

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Earth Core, Geomagnetic Field Reversal, Earth Glaciation, Galactic-cosmic Space Radiation Flux, Solar Irradiance, Solar Output, Solar Coronal Mass Ejection, Tectonic Displacement, Supervolcanic Activi

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Productivity, Project Delivery Systems, Scheduling, Work Breakdown Structures, Time-task Studies, Strategic, Logistic And Tactical

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Reasons Charting And Constraint Analysis

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Lean Construction, Last Planner System, Safety Management

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Environmental Design,  Energy Efficient Homes, Green Buildings, Intelligent Construction, Leed, Sustainable Construction, Technology Buildings, Us-green Building Council, , Websites, Zero Energy Homes

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Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management, Structured Literature Research

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Construction Safety, Osha, Mortality Rate, Fatal Occupational Injuries

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Last Planner System, Lean Construction Practices, Management By Method, Management By Result, Cost, Schedule

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Brenham Tx, Main Street Program, Active Living, Urban Improved Areas

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Lean Construction; Planned Percent Complete; Theory; Waste And Value

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Value Stream Mapping, Vsm Tools, Vsm In Construction, Application Of Vsm, Application Of Vsm In Construction

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Productivity, Project Delivery Systems, Scheduling, Work Breakdown Structures, Time-task Studies, Strategic, Logistic And Tactical

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Systemic Nature Of The Construction Industry

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Georgia Institute of Technology - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)

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Last planner system implementation challenges

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Development and testing of a lean simulation to illustrate key principles of target value design: A first run study

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Proceedings of the 24th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction

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DOES DESIGN-BUILD (DB) OUTPERFORM CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK (CMAR)? A COST AND SCHEDULE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DB PROJECTS AND CMAR PROJECTS

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General contractor's project of projects - a meta-project: understanding the new paradigm and its implications through the lens of entropy

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Effect of Autonomous Agents on Last Planner System Performance in Texas

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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A seminal case study on application of last planner system with cash flow data for improvement in construction management practices

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BSRI (Building Sustainability Rating Index) for Building Construction

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Relations and Implications of Aperiodic Earth Core / Geomagnetic Field Reversals with Earth Glaciations

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Are Building Construction Delivery Systems Complicated or Complex?

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Impact of cost constraints on aesthetic ranking following Target Value Design exercises

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International Group for Lean Construction

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Survey of Motivations, Benefits, and Implementation Challenges of Last Planner System Users

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Building construction: A deterministic non-periodic flow - A case study of chaos theories in tracking production flow

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Embodied energy of construction materials: integrating human and capital energy into an IO-based hybrid model.

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Framework for Understanding the Relationship between Lean and Safety in Construction

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The Content and Visibility of Green Building Practices on Commercial Construction Company Websites

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Investigation into the nature of productivity gains observed during the airplane game lean simulation

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Definition of natural and artificial sustainability as the force that tames an exponentialoid

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Reflective Practitioner: Grounding the Use of Instructional Technology in Principles, Teaching Philosophy, Course Goals and Disciplinary Values

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Reducing carbon footprint of facilities using a facility management approach

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State of production plan reliability- A case study from India

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Trainathon lean simulation game: Determining perceptions of the value of training among construction stakeholders

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The Idealization of an Integrated BIM, Lean, and Green Model (BLG)

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Is Earth's Surface Insolation Increasing? - Implication for Climate Change Theories

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A STRUCTURED LITERATURE REVIEW: VALUE STREAM MAPPING (VSM) IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

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A Strategic Approach to Target Capital Investment on Facility Assets: Literature Review

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Instructor's Guide to Construction Science Capstone Open Educational Resource Textbook

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Identification of parameters for embodied energy measurement: A literature review

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An application of poppers method of conjectures and refutations to the critique of emerging construction theories

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Toward an understanding of cost and aesthetics: Impact of cost contraints on aesthetic ranking following Target Value Design exercises

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Framework linking lean simulations to their applications on construction projects

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Guidelines to Address Challenges Faced by Last Planner Users and Implementers at Organizational and Project Levels

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Linking design and energy performance in U.S. military hospitals

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Trends in pursuing LEED certification credit points

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Complex healthcare facility management and lean construction.

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Why construction productivity initiatives fail to deliver significant improvements?

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Need for an embodied energy measurement protocol for buildings: A review paper

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System boundary for embodied energy in buildings: A conceptual model for definition

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AC 2012-3622: BUILDING CONSTRUCTION: INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPSTONE PROJECTS

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Calculating primary energy and carbon emission factors for the United States' energy sectors

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Building construction: A deterministic non-periodic flow - A case study of chaos theories in tracking production flow (vol 9, pg 21, 2013)

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LEED accredited professionals' perceptions affecting credit point adoption

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Is building construction, as a social project organization and production system, complicated or complex?

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Analysis of the forces in the exponentialoid growth in construction

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Recurrent embodied energy and its relationship with service life and life cycle energy A review paper

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Comparative Analysis of Lean and Six Sigma in Building Construction: Benefits, Obstacles and Opportunities

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Framework for Selecting Performance Assessment Tools for Achieving LEED 3.0 Credits

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MORTALITY RATE IN THE USA CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (2004  2014)

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Do Management Practices Impact Cost and Schedule Indicators? Comparative of Case Studies

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Assessing the Active Living Impacts of Urban Design Improvements:  Brenham TX Main Street Program

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Is Building Construction Approaching the Threshold of Becoming Unsustainable?: A System Theoretic Exploration towards a Post-Forrester Model for Taming Unsustainable Exponentialoids

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The systemic nature of the construction industry

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9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Instructor's Guide to Construction Science Capstone Open Educational Resource Textbook

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Texas A&M University; Construction Science; 3137 TAMU

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Kisa The Lynx Finds Home At Texas A&M's Wildlife Center

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Jimoh, Moruf Ajide (2014-12). Meta-Analysis of Design-Bid-Build (DBB), Competitive Sealed Proposal (CSP), Design-Build (DB), and Construction Manager at Risk (CMR) Regarding Selected Performance Metrics. Master's Thesis.

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Ferrer Garcia, Eduardo R (2014-08). Comparison of the Perception of Facility Managers on Green Roofs Attributes and Barriers to their Implementation. Master's Thesis.

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Xiao, Chao (2015-08). Comparative Analysis of Entropy Algorithms to Determine the Most Effective Technique for Measuring Complexity in Building Construction. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Castelo Branco, Cristiano Ribeiro (2007-12). An effective way to reduce residential construction waste: a case study in Texas. Master's Thesis.

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Wheeler, Daniel G (2017-12). Financial Ratios and Profitability -  Strategy for Mid-Level Construction Firms: Growth or Value Strategies?. Master's Thesis.

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Gottipati, Udaya Naidu (2010-08). Development of a Pilot Study Simulation to Investigate the Impact of Target Costing  on Team Dynamics and Design Aesthetics. Master's Thesis.

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Sau, Arunabha (2010-08). Low-energy Passive Solar Residence in Austin, Texas. Master's Thesis.

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Lagoo, Nishi (2012-05). A Seminal Case Study on Application of Last Planner System with Cash Flow Data for Improvements in Construction Management Practices. Master's Thesis.

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Li, Xiaoqi (2014-05). A Literature Review on Value Stream Mapping with a Case Study of Applying Value Stream Mapping on Research Process. Master's Thesis.

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Pathak, Rutuparna (2010-08). Framework for Selecting Leading Performance Tools for Achieving Leed 3.0 Credits. Master's Thesis.

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Rincon Fonseca, Jorge Luis (2017-05). Does Stakeholder ‘Autonomous Agent’ Gaming in the General Economy Affect Last Planner System Performance?. Master's Thesis.

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Ma, Min (2017-12). Does Design-Build (DB) Outperform Construction Management at Risk (CMAR)? A cost and schedule comparative study of DB projects and CMAR projects. Master's Thesis.

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Park, Soon Rock (2011-05). Design-Build and CM at Risk- comparative analysis for owner decision making based on case studies and project surveys. Master's Thesis.

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Li, Yaxu (2015-12). Value Stream Mapping(VSM) in Construction and Manufacturing Industry: A Structured Literature Review and Comparative Analysis. Master's Thesis.

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Gompa Pranathi (2018-05). Effect of the Combination of Management Theory and the Project Delivery System on the Cost and Schedule of a Construction Project. Master's Thesis.

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Prakash, Ramya (2010-05). Framework for Understanding the Relationship between Lean and Safety in Construction. Master's Thesis.

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Porwal, Vishal (2010-12). Last Planner System – Areas of Application and Implementation Challenges. Master's Thesis.

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Dixit, Manish Kumar (2013-12). Embodied Energy Calculation: Method and Guidelines for a Building and its Constituent Materials. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Vaziri, Arian (2018-05). The Impact of the Last Planner System on Construction Project Performance in Terms of Schedule and Cost. Master's Thesis.

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Tupe, Harshavardhan Vikas (2017-05). Analyzing the Mortality Rate in the U.S.  Construction Industry (2004 – 2014). Master's Thesis.

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Castelo Branco, Cristiano Ribeiro (2007-12). An effective way to reduce residential construction waste: a case study in Texas. Master's Thesis.