Infrastructure Delivery and Management
Lead by Professors Nicola Chiara and John Taylor, the department's research in infrastructure delivery and management focuses on:
- Modeling contractual agreements for infrastructure risk mitigation using real options
- Asset management under uncertainty and risk
- Bridge management systems, deterioration, and cost models for bridge systems, data analysis, and processing
- Risk analysis and mitigation of public-private-partnership infrastructure projects
- Work practice change associated increasing utilization of public-private-partnership
- Infrastructure project finance / building finance
- Multi-hazard risk analysis of infrastructure systems (earthquake, hurricane, flooding, terrorism)
- Supply-chain integration in infrastructure management
- Hedging commodity risk in infrastructure projects (steel)
- Operations research applications in infrastructure management