Ahmad Hadavi
Ahmad Hadavi
Adjunct Professor
A112 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
E-mail address: a-hadavi@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 467-3219
Fax: (847) 491-4011
Education
- B.S., Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, Civil Engineering
- M.B.A., Harvard-affiliated Iran Center for Management Studies, Tehran, Iran
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, Construction Management
Research
Professor Hadavi's research includes:
- Productivity Improvement
- Labor Motivational Techniques
- Construction Cost Engineering
- Construction Methods and Innovations
- International Construction
Teaching Activities
- CIV_ENG-336 Project Scheduling
- CIV_ENG-435 Cost Engineering and Control
- CIV_ENG-499 Projects
Selected Publications
- "The Chinese Construction from the Perspective of Industrial Organization", ASCE Construction Research Council Symposium , Nashville , TN , November 2003. (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "Firm Size Distribution in the Chinese Construction Industry", Knowledge Construction, Proceedings of the Joint International Symposium of CIB Working Commissions W55, W65 and W107, Singapore, 22-24 October 2003, Vol. 2 pp. 690-701 . (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "Objectives and Behavior of Chinese Construction Firms", Knowledge Construction, Proceedings of the Joint International Symposium of CIB Working Commissions W55, W65 and W107, Singapore, 22-24 October 2003, Vol. 2 pp. 318-328 . (with D. Wang and R. J. Krizek)
- "E-Economy Supply Chain Collaboration for the Construction Industry ", Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers Specialty Conference on Fully Integrated Automated Processes in Civil Engineering, Blacksburg , VA , September 2001, pp. 406-414. (with C.-H. Chao, and R. J. Krizek)
- "Strategic Knowledge Management for Supply Chain Collaboration in the Construction Industry ", Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference on Fully Integrated Automated Processes in Civil Engineering, Blacksburg , VA , September 2001, pp. 397-405. (with C.-H. Chao, and R. J. Krizek)
- "Toward a Supply Chain Collaboration in the E-Business Era for the Construction Industry", Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2000, pp. 1183-1188. (with C.-H. Chao, and R. J. Krizek)
- "Construction Industry Business Processes Modeled with Object-Oriented Approach", Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2000, pp. 1059-1064. (with C.-H. Chao, R. J. Krizek, and W. Lo)
- "Effects of High Prequalification Requirements", Journal of Construction Management and Economics, Volume 17, Reading, England, 1999, pp. 603-612. (with W. Lo and R. J. Krizek).
