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CRS Center for Leadership and Management in the Design and Construction Industry

# overview
Dr. Lavy's research interests are in the areas of facility management and construction management, mainly in the healthcare and education sectors, construction and life-cycle economics, performance indicators, user behavior and perception, standards and standardization, and facility management and construction education.

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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College Of Education And Human Development

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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Reasons Charting And Constraint Analysis

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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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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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8.1 Organisation And Delivery Of Services

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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3902 Education Policy, Sociology And Philosophy

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - (Haifa, Israel)

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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - (Haifa, Israel)

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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - (Haifa, Israel)

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Last planner system implementation challenges

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Hard Facilities and Performance Management in Hospitals

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Using Visual Ethnography for Space Studies

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American Society for Engineering Education

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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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Integration of facility management and building information modeling (BIM) A review of key issues and challenges

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BSRI (Building Sustainability Rating Index) for Building Construction

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Evaluating the impact of operating energy reduction measures on embodied energy

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Healthcare facilities management: state of the art review

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On the effect of service life conditions on the maintenance costs of healthcare facilities

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Teaching Facility Management Practices: A Case Study

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American Society for Engineering Education

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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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Facility management practices in higher education buildings A case study

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Wall finish selection in hospital design: a survey of facility managers.

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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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A Multiuser Shared Virtual Environment for Facility Management

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KPIs for facility's performance assessment, Part I: identification and categorization of core indicators

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Reducing carbon footprint of facilities using a facility management approach

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Key performance indicators for facility performance assessment: simulation of core indicators

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Floor finish selection in health-care facilities: a systematic literature review

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Floor finish selection in the design of healthcare facilities: a survey of facility managers

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Fatalities of Hispanic Workers: Safety Initiatives Taken by U.S. Construction Companies to Address Linguistic and Cultural Issues

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Identification of parameters for embodied energy measurement: A literature review

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Integrated maintenance monitoring of hospital buildings

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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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Work order processing times - Does bim make a difference...?

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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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Development of an integrated healthcare facilities management model

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Complex healthcare facility management and lean construction.

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

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Integrated healthcare facility management model - A case study

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Literature review on design terror mitigation for facility managers in public access buildings

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Role of research for standards within the built environment

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FEASIBILITY OF AN OFF-GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE FOR THE MERCANTILE SECTOR

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Establishment of KPIs for facility performance measurement: review of literature

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FACILITY MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT: A HEALTH CARE CASE STUDY

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Effects of BIM and COBie Database Facility Management on Work Order Processing Times: Case Study

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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LEED accredited professionals' perceptions affecting credit point adoption

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Environmental, Economic, and Social Implications of Highway Concrete Rehabilitation Alternatives

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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

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Applications, Enrollment, Attendance, and Student Performance in Rebuilt School Facilities: A Case Study

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Framework for Selecting Performance Assessment Tools for Achieving LEED 3.0 Credits

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KPIs for facility's performance assessment, Part II: identification of variables and deriving expressions for core indicators

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Effects of Front-End Planning under Fast-Tracked Project Delivery Systems for Industrial Projects

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Research and evidence-based standards paving the way for a digital and sustainable transformation of the built environment

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Facilities maintenance management practices in large public schools, Texas

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Relationship between Admission GRE Scores and Graduation GPA Scores of Construction Management Graduate Students

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Integrated maintenance management of hospital buildings: a case study

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A strategic integrated healthcare facility management model

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Higher education space management through user-centric data analytics

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Hospital Building and Departmental Area Calculation: Comparison of 36 Recent North American Projects.

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A Literature Review on Measuring Building Performance by Using Key performance Indicators

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Challenges of Stadium Construction-Case Study

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Integrated healthcare facilities maintenance management model: case studies

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The PropTech Mismatch: Exploring the Demand-Supply Digital Gap in Italy's Property Management Sector

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American Society for Health Care Engineering

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Construction Science; 3337 TAMU

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CRS Center for Leadership and Management in the Design and Construction Industry

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Singh, Nishith (2017-08). Communication Network Analysis to Compare BIM and Non-BIM Approaches in the AEC Industry. Master's Thesis.

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Kiss, Christopher William (2011-05). Simulations of Design Modifications in Military Health Facilities. Master's Thesis.

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Hasler, Mitchell Dean (2016-08). Critical Success Factors Affecting Successful Completion of “Institutional” Projects: A Case Study Approach. Master's Thesis.

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Daniels, Patrick Rudolph (2012-08). Pilot Study for Quantifying LEED Energy & Atmosphere Operational Savings in Healthcare Facilities. Master's Thesis.

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Kader, Sharmin (2008-12). Development of design strategies to support evacuation process of hospital buildings in united states. Master's Thesis.

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Freeman, Janice (2013-05). Building Retrofits: Energy Conservation and Employee Retention Considerations in Medium-Size Commercial Buildings. Master's Thesis.

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Jawadekar, Salil (2012-08). A Case Study of the Use of BIM and Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) for Facility Management. Master's Thesis.

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Ellis, Evan D (2013-12). Preserving a Heritage: Creating a More Beneficial Historic Structure Report, for Contractors and a University. Master's Thesis.

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Mukherji, Payal Tapandev (2010-12). Study of Possible Applications of Currently Available Building Information Modeling Tools for the Analysis of Initial Costs and Energy Costs for Performing Life Cycle Cost Analysis. Master's Thesis.

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Bhattacharjee, Suchayita S. (2008-12). Investigation of contemporary problems and practices in post-hurricane reconstruction in the commercial sector of the southeast region of the United States. Master's Thesis.

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Abdagiri, Parag Vijay (2017-12). Relationship Between Embodied Energy and Cost of Building Materials: A Case Study. Master's Thesis.

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Nixon, Jerri Lynn (2015-08). Do Replacement Public Schools Deliver on Promises after Construction?. Master's Thesis.