We are advancing innovative techniques to accelerate pavement construction and enhance project delivery. In collaboration with TxDOT, our team identifies major roadway projects in the schematic design phase and evaluates them as pilot studies. Through detailed analysis and testing, we recommend practical construction approaches that local districts can adopt to improve efficiency. By leveraging advanced planning tools, we develop the most economical rehabilitation strategies, optimize construction schedules, and quantify potential time and cost savings. Findings and recommendations are shared with local districts to support safer, faster, and more cost-effective pavement construction: [Pilot Project #1]    [Pilot Project #2]    [Pilot Project #3]

• Interdependence analysis of schedule-cost-change-productivity-risk-quality associated with critical highway rehabilitation projects.

• Advanced statistical analyses including a non-linear regression analysis built in a set of clusters with the goal of (1) analyzing the macroeconomic performance of the construction industry as a whole and at fourteen of its sub-sectors in terms of labor productivity, gross margin, and worker’s wages and (2) developing a quantitative model that predicts a firm’s profitability by analyzing various levels of labor productivity and taking crucial external factors into account. 

• Schedule/cost/traffic integrated tradeoff analysis to devise the most feasible and economical scenarios for high-impact urban highway rehab projects: helping TxDOT choose the most realistic contract times and transportation management plans, resulting in immediate, tangible monetary savings in road user costs and agency costs.