{"300961":{"#nid":"300961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia DOT awards $300K grant to School of Building Construction\u0027s Ashuri","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has awarded Baabak Ashuri, associate professor in the School of Building Construction, a two-year, $300,000 grant to develop a best practices guidebook for budget-based design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EState Departments of Transportation are constantly striving for feasible and reliable project budgeting and scheduling early in the life cycle of any major highway project. Their biggest challenge, however, is ensuring that budget and schedule are realistic and meet expectations. Cost overruns and delays are most often the result of lack of procedures for establishing, monitoring and updating both the budget and the schedule.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAshuri\u2019s research will identify best practices that will allow project managers to produce a project cost estimate and schedule, ultimately reducing cost overages and schedule breakdowns on several major types of highway projects.\u0026nbsp; The end product will be a guidebook that can be easily referenced by project managers and engineers throughout the entire process and design development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are excited that Baabak is involved in a project such as this,\u201d said Daniel Castro, chair of the School of Building Construction. \u201cThis research will have a real, measurable impact on GDOT\u2019s efficiency and workflow. It\u2019s the type of project that we want to help our state with.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Ashuri\u2019s work focuses on innovative project delivery systems and data and business analytics for architecture\/engineering\/construction and facility management (AEC +FM). His work has significant implications for improving long-range planning and integrated decision-making processes for buildings and civil infrastructure assets, advancing economic\/financial valuation methods for investments in capital projects while preserving environmental and social conditions to foster resilient and sustainable development.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia DOT awards $300K grant to School of Building Construction\u0027s Ashuri"}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2014-06-03 11:13:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:33","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"158531":{"id":"158531","type":"image","title":"Babaak Ashuri","body":null,"created":"1449178883","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:23","changed":"1475894794","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:34","alt":"Babaak Ashuri","file":{"fid":"195358","name":"ashuri_cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashuri_cropped_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashuri_cropped_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20195,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ashuri_cropped_1.jpg?itok=6IQN_jiH"}}},"media_ids":["158531"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"42131","name":"Baabak Ashuri"},{"id":"19101","name":"GDOT"},{"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\u003E404-894-0693\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}