Youngcheol (Young) Kang, Ph.D., P.E.

Assistant Professor

Department of Global Construction Management

International School of Urban Sciences
Liberal Arts Building 224, Seoulsiripdaero 163, Dongdaemun-gu
Seoul 130-743, Korea
Phone: 82.2.6490.5148               Fax: 82.2.6490.5141
E-mail: ykang0123@uos.ac.kr

 

 

Refereed Archival Journal Papers
 
 
 
 
 
1.      Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., and O’Connor, J. (in press). “An Information Integration Maturity Model for the Capital Projects Industry.” ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering.
2.      Kang, Y., BooHyun Nam, Jorge G. Zornberg, and Yoon-Ho Cho. (accepted for publication). “Pullout of Geogrid Reinforcement with In-Plane Drainage Capacity in Cohesive Soil.” submitted to KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering.
3.      Son, H., Kim, C., Kim, C., and Kang, Y. (accepted for publication). “Development of a predictive energy consumption model for sustainable government-owned building design based on support vector machine and RReliefF.” Journal of Civil Engineering and Management.
4.      Son, C., Kim, C., Kim, C., Hwang, N., and Kang, Y. (2014). “Classification of Major Construction Materials in Construction Environments Using Ensemble Classifiers.” Advanced Engineering Informatics, 28(1), 1-10.
5.      Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., and Mulva, S. (2013). “Value of IT: Indirect Impact of IT on Construction Project Performance via Best Practice.” Automation in Construction, 35, 383-396.
6.      Kang, Y., Kim, C., Son, H., Lee, S., and Limsawasd, C. (2013). “Comparison of Preproject Planning for Green and Conventional Buildings.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 139(11), 04013018
7.      Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., Dai, J., Mulva, S., Thomas, S., Chapman, R.E., and Butry, D. (2013). “Interaction effects of information technologies and best practices on construction project performance.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 139 (4), 361-371.
8.      Kang, Y., O'Brien, W., and O'Connor, J. (2012). “IOP Tool: Assessing the Benefits and Hindrances of Information Integration Opportunities.” ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, 28(2), 160-169.
9.      Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., and O’Connor, J. (2012). “Analysis of Information Integration Benefit Drivers and Implementation Hindrances.” Automation in Construction, 22, 277-289.
10.  Chi, S., Suk, S., and Kang, Y., and  Mulva, S. (2012). “Development of a data mining-based analysis framework for multi-attribute construction project information.” Advanced Engineering Informatics, 26, 574-581.
11.  Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., Thomas, S., and Chapman, R.E. (2008). “Impact of information technologies on performance: Cross study comparison.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(11), 852 - 863.

12.  Azhar, N., Kang, Y., and Ahmad, I. (under review). “A Critical Look into the Relationship between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) in Public Sector Construction.” ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering.

  

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers in Conference Proceedings
  1. Kang, Y., Dai, J., Mulva, S.P., and Choi, J. (2014). “The 10-10 Performance Assessment Campaign: New Theories Regarding the Benchmarking of Capital Project Performance.” Proceedings of the 2014 Construction Research Congress, Atlanta, GA.
  2. Kang, Y., Dai, J., and Mulva, S.P. (2012). “A Benchmarking Framework for Public Transportation Project Delivery.” Proceedings of the 2012 Construction Research Congress, West Lafayette, IN.
  3. Dai, J., Mulva, S., Suk, S., and Kang, Y. (2012). “Cost Normalization for Global Capital Projects Benchmarking.” Proceedings of the 2012 Construction Research Congress, West Lafayette, IN.
  4. Kang, Y., Spiegelhalter, T., Pala, N., Zhu, Y., and Bhattarai, A. (2012). “A Dynamic and Context-Driven Benchmarking Framework for Zero-Net-Energy Buildings.” Proceedings of the 2012 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Clearwater Beach, FL.
  5. Spiegelhalter, T., Kang, Y., Pala, N., and Zhu, Y. (2012). “Diagnosing, Benchmarking and Transforming the LEED certified FIU-SIPA Building into a Net-Zero-Energy-Building (Net-ZEBs).” Proceedings of the 2012 World Renewable Energy Forum, Denver, CO.
  6. Kang, Y., Yun, S., Suk, S., Dai, J., and Mulva, S. (2011). “Engineering Productivity Comparison: 2D. vs. 3D.” Proceedings of the 2011 CSCE Annual General Meeting & Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
  7. Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., and O’Connor, J. (2010). “Assessing the benefits and hindrances of information integration opportunities.” Proceedings of the ICCCBE2010, Nottingham, UK.
  8. Zornberg, J.G. and Kang, Y. (2005). “Pullout of geosynthetic reinforcement with in-plane drainage capability.” Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE Geo-Frontiers, Austin, TX. 

Technical Reports
  1.   Bayraktar, M.E., Kang, Y., Svinkin, M., and Arif, F. (2013). “Evaluation of Vibration Limits and Mitigation Techniques for Urban Construction.” BDK80 977-22, Florida Department of Transportation.
  2. O'Brien, W. and Kang, Y. (2011). “Information Integration to Improve Capital Project Performance.” CII IR258-2, Construction Industry Institute.
  3. Kang, Y., O’Brien, W., Dai, J., Mulva, S., Thomas, S., and Liao, P. (2009). “Measuring interoperability and best practices impacts on capital project productivity.” NIST GCR 09?25, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  4. Kang, Y., Thomas, S., and O’Brien, W. (2006). “Impact of automation and integration technologies on project and company performance.” NIST GCR 06-900, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  5. El-Mashaleh, M.S., O’Brien, W., and Kang, Y. (2006). “Impact of IT use at the firm level: An empirical study of contractor performance.” Center for Construction Industry Studies, Report No.34, The University of Texas at Austin.