{"286251":{"#nid":"286251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pishdad-Bozorgi receives $215K Construction Industry Institute grant to examine flash track project delivery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Construction Industry Institute (CII) recently awarded School of Building Construction\u2019s Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, assistant professor, a $215,418 grant for a research project that will study the successful delivery of flash track projects.\u0026nbsp;Pishdad-Bozorgi, along with Virginia Tech professor Jesus de la Garza, will serve as co-PIs on the two-year project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Construction Industry Institute is one of the most prestigious funding, research and learning organizations in the engineering and construction industry,\u201d said Daniel Castro, chair of the School of Building Construction. \u201cThis is an accomplishment and an honor for Pardis to work on this project and I expect that we will see outcomes that will make a real difference to the construction industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the project is to re-engineer project life-cycle work processes to facilitate successful execution of flash track projects. The team will work to identify the process by which organizations can successfully deliver flash track projects, to create a metric for project level users to assess their readiness to deliver, and finally to develop an implementation tool to identify potential risks and provide project level guidance for successful project execution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Pishdad-Bozorgi joined the School of Building Construction in 2012. Her research specializes on emerging and evolutionary trends such as integrated project delivery (IPD), building information modeling (BIM), and other types of project delivery methods.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Construction Industry Institute (CII) recently awarded School of Building Construction\u2019s Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, assistant professor, a $215,418 grant for a research project that will study the successful delivery of flash track projects."}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2014-03-27 07:45:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:07","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-03-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"156021":{"id":"156021","type":"image","title":"Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi","body":null,"created":"1449178872","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:12","changed":"1475894789","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:29","alt":"Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi","file":{"fid":"195295","name":"1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1_9.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1_9.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1102875,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1_9.jpg?itok=AxEj1Tsa"}}},"media_ids":["156021"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"52251","name":"Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi"},{"id":"167100","name":"school of building construction"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Herrmann\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-0693\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}