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Evaluation of AI-based Feedback System for Reducing Sidewalk Riding by Shared e-scooter Users
(2024-01-07)The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of using AI-based auditory feedback and speed limitations on shared e-scooters equipped with computer vision sensors to reduce sidewalk riding. Spin, a US-based ... -
Measurements and Verification (M&V) Guidelines for Weatherization Plus Health Program
(2023-03-15)Weatherization Plus Health (Wx+H), a pilot program introduced by the Washington State Department of Commerce, has proposed a new scope to improve the indoor environment quality (IEQ) for low-income housing residents—one ... -
Systematic Review of Hygrothermal Computational Tools for New and Existing Buildings
(2023-03-15)The use of multiple design strategies seeking energy efficiency in buildings can offer a wide range of opportunities to improve energy and thermal performance. While thermal resistance is typically considered of high ... -
Travel Behavior Modeling and Emerging Mobility Technologies - Annual Report from the University of Washington To Argonne National Laboratory
(2021-09-09)This report presents work completed at the University of Washington in 2020-21 under contracts with Argonne National Laboratory. Specifically, it includes work completed in the fourth year of the UW’s efforts on the US-China ... -
Predicting Liquefaction in Near-Real-Time (NRT): An Assessment of Geospatial vs. Geotechnical Models During the Canterbury Earthquakes
(2017-10)Semi-empirical models based on in-situ geotechnical tests have become the standard of practice for predicting soil liquefaction. Since the inception of the "simplified" cyclic-stress model in 1971, variants based on various ... -
Fragility functions for performance-based ground failure due to soil liquefaction
(2017-10)The severity of liquefaction manifested at the ground surface is a pragmatic proxy of damage potential for various infrastructure assets, making it particularly useful for hazard mapping, land-use planning, and preliminary ... -
Probabalistic Prediction of Severity of Liquefaction Surface Manifestation Using Geotechnical and Geospatial Models
(2017-08-08)The severity of liquefaction manifested at the ground surface is a pragmatic proxy of damage potential for various infrastructure assets, making it particularly useful for hazard mapping ,land-use planning, and preliminary ... -
Field-testing liquefaction models based on geospatial vs. geotechnical data
(6th International Young Geotechnical Engineers' Conference, 2017-08-08)This study assesses the relative efficacy of liquefaction models based on geospatial vs. geotechnical data. In particular, state-of-practice geotechnical models based on the Cone Penetration Test (CPT) are compared to ... -
THEORIZING THE INTERNAL SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF SANITATION ORGANIZATIONS
(Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 15-09)Onsite household sanitation technologies such as septic tanks or latrines serve a large percentage of the world’s population. Unfortunately, they experience high failure rates after construction, with resulting environmental ... -
The Fourth Pillar of Infrastructure Sustainability: Tailoring Civil Infrastructure to Social Context
(Construction Management and Economics, 2015-09)This research proposes technical performance over time as a fourth pillar of sustainability theory for infrastructure. It also describes a method that allows us to discover how changes in the technical pillar (operationalised ... -
Cultured Construction: Global Evidence of the Impact of National Values on Sanitation Infrastructure Choice
(Environmental Science & Technology, 2015-09)Case study research often claims culturevariously definedimpacts infrastructure development. I test this claim using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and newly available data representing change in national coverage of ... -
The Internal Social Sustainability of Sanitation Infrastructure
(Environmental Science & Technology, 2015-09)While the construction of sanitation infrastructure is one of humankind’s greatest public health and environmental engineering achievements, its benefits are not yet enjoyed by all. In addition to the billions of people ... -
CONTESTED FACTORS FOR SUSTAINABILITY: THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF HOUSEHOLD ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS
(Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2015-09)Onsite sanitation systems experience a high failure rate with resulting environmental and public health implications. In the USA alone, the EPA estimates that 10% of the 26 million homes served by onsite systems have failed. ... -
Technology Development to Explore the Relationship Between Oral Health and the Oral Microbial Community
(2006)The human oral cavity contains a complex microbial community that, until recently, has not been well characterized. Studies using molecular tools have begun to enumerate and quantify the species residing in various niches ...