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

 

 

Research Projects
 
 
 
 
 
CII Performance Assessment 10-10 Project                                                                                                
01/2013 - 05/2014
·         Role: PI
·         Funding Agency: Construction Industry Institute (CII)
·         Amount: $16,000/year
·         The purpose of this study is to reinvigorate the benchmarking efforts for Construction Industry Institute. This will form the point of departure for the next phase benchmarking research in the CII Performance Assessment.
Development of Construction and Operation Methods for Low-Carbon Green Airport Pavement        
08/2012 - 10/2014
·         Role: PI (Subcontract through Chung-Ang University)
·         Funding Agency: Korea Institute of Construction and Transportation Technology Evaluation and Planning
·         Amount: ₩6,000,000  (about $55,500)
·         The purpose of this study is to compare CO2 emission for various construction processes in the airport pavement construction.
Evaluation of Vibration Limits and Mitigation Techniques for Urban Construction
01/2012 - 08/2013
·         Role: Co-PI
·         Funding Agency: Florida Department of Transportation
·         Amount: $149,959
·         The purpose of this study is to determine vibration limits for structures and buried utilities, determine anticipated vibration levels generated by foundation and pavement construction equipment and prediction methodologies, and evaluate mitigation techniques.
 
Information Integration to Improve Capital Project Performance
04/2008 - 07/2011
·         Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. William O’Brien)
·         Funding Agency: Construction Industry Institute (CII)
·         This study provides a systematic assessment of integration-technology adoption. Two tools developed by the research help organizations assess their processes and evaluate integration opportunities in consideration of market/legal, organizational and process, and people-related issues. By applying the tools to practical cases, the study identifies major benefits and hindrances of information integration implementation in the construction industry.
 
 
Measuring Interoperability and Best Practices Impacts on Productivity                                                  
01/2008 - 04/2009
·         Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Mulva and Dr. William O’Brien)
·         Funding Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Construction Industry Institute (CII)
·         This study measured the combined impacts of automation/integration technologies and best practices use on productivity. It provides evidence of complementarity between IT use and best practices on construction projects performance.
 
Downstream Oil and Gas Benchmarking Project                                                                                       
09/2006 - 08/2009
·         Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. Stephen Mulva)
·         Funding Agency: Construction Industry Institute (CII) Benchmarking & Metrics Team
·         This research seeks to develop a benchmarking system for downstream oil and gas projects. The system benchmarks downstream processes such as hydrotreater, sulfer recovery unit, and coker, as well as general downstream projects.
o    Participating companies: Aramco Services, Chevron, CITGO, ConocoPhilips, Marathon Oil, Petrobras, and Shell
 
 
General Benchmarking & Metrics Program                                                                                                
09/2006 - 08/2009
·         Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. Stephen Mulva)
·         This research was involved with developing project-performance metrics and measurement systems for capital projects, validating and analyzing project data, and investigating the value of best practices.
 
Impact of Automation and Integration Technology on Project and Company Performance
09/2005 - 08/2006
·         Funding Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Construction Industry Institute (CII)
·         Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. William O’Brien)
·         This research produced a comprehensive set of information based on actual project-execution experiences that documents the added value of automation and integration technologies through their impacts on key project outcomes—such as cost, schedule, rework, and safety. 
 
Pullout of Geosynthetic Reinforcement with In-plane Drainage Capacity in Cohesive Soil                    
09/2003 - 08/2005
·         Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Supervisors: Dr. Jorge G. Zornberg)
·         This research compared pullout strength of geogrid with and without in-plane drainage capacity in cohesive soil.