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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 27, 2014
Lisa Herrmann
Director of Communications
College of Architecture
404-385-0693
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The Construction Industry Institute (CII) recently awarded School of Building Construction’s Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, assistant professor, a $215,418 grant for a research project that will study the successful delivery of flash track projects.
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Pardis Pishdad-BozorgiThe Construction Industry Institute (CII) recently awarded School of Building Construction’s Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, assistant professor, a $215,418 grant for a research project that will study the successful delivery of flash track projects. Pishdad-Bozorgi, along with Virginia Tech professor Jesus de la Garza, will serve as co-PIs on the two-year project.
“The Construction Industry Institute is one of the most prestigious funding, research and learning organizations in the engineering and construction industry,” said Daniel Castro, chair of the School of Building Construction. “This 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.”
The 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.
Assistant 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.
