Conference Papers

1. Yimin Zhu and Yong Tao. “Future House USA: an experience of international collaboration on a green building demonstration project,” Proceedings of the International Conference of Construction and Real Estate Management, Beijing, November 5-6, 2009.

2. Ozcan Gulbin and Yimin Zhu. “Life Cycle Assessment of a Net Zero Energy House,” Proceedings of the International Conference of Construction and Real Estate Management, Beijing, November 5-6, 2009.

3. Sreelatha Chunduri, Yimin Zhu, and Mehmet Emre Bayraktar, “Improving Concept Learning in Green Building Education by Addressing Students’ Learning Styles and Prior Knowledge,” Proceedings of the 45^th Annual International Conference of the Associated Schools of Construction, Gainesville, FL, April 1-4, 2009.

4. Yimin Zhu and Thomas Froese. “Design of XML Standards: the agcXML experience.” To appear in the proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Beijing, China, October, 2008.

5. Yimin Zhu, Rui Zhang, and Irtishad Ahmad. “Evaluating Common Understanding for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Green Building by Using Concept Maps,” Proceedings of the International Conference of Construction and Real Estate Management, pp. 690-693, Toronto, Canada, October 4 – 5, 2008.

6. Yimin Zhu, Rui Zhang, and Irtishad Ahmad. “Context-based Concept Analysis: a case of work zone road user cost (RUC),” Proceedings of the International Conference of Construction and Real Estate Management, pp. 446-471, Toronto, Canada, October 4 – 5, 2008.

7. Yimin Zhu. “XML-Based Standardization: monolithic vs. atomic representations,” Proceedings of the International Conference of Construction and Real Estate Management, Bristol, UK, August 21^st – 22^nd, 2007.

8. Yimin Zhu (2007). “An Exploratory Study on the Value of Information Systems to Electrical Construction Firms.” ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pittsburg, PA.

9. Thomas White and Yimin Zhu. “An Analysis of Cost Information Management in the Electrical Contracting Sector.” The Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Construction in the 21^st Century, pp. 46-45, Gold Coast, Australia, July 11-13, 2007.

10. Li Wang, Yimin Zhu and Yilei Shi. “An Analysis of Three Estimation Techniques for Road User Cost.“ The Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Construction in the 21^st Century, pp. 53-60, Gold Coast, Australia, July 11-13, 2007.

11. Yimin Zhu, “An Ontology Framework to Support the Design of ETO Products.” The proceedings of the International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management, Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 5 – 6, 2006.

12. Yimin Zhu, Raymond Issa and Ivan Mutis, “Process-Oriented Systems Integration”, to appear in the Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Construction and Building Engineering, June 14-16, 2006, Montreal Canada.

13. Yimin Zhu, “BNF Representations of Semantic Mappings for Hybrid Integration in AEC”, the Proceedings of the International Conference of Construction and Real Estate Management (ICCREM), Malaysia, December, 2005.

14. Yimin Zhu, Mei-Ling Shyu and Shu-Ching Chen, “Data Integration for Capital Projects via Community-Specific Conceptual Representations”, the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Las Vegas, August, 2005.

15. Yimin Zhu and Aarrti Pandit, “A Hybrid Integration Strategy Using Semantic and Context Models for the AEC Industry”, the proceedings of CITC-III, Athens, Greece, September, 2005.

16. Yimin Zhu, “Applying Context to Systems Integration in AEC”, ASCE Research Congress, San Deigo, CA, 2005.

17. Yimin Zhu, Shu-Chen Chen and Mei-Ling Shyu, “A Hybrid Integration Strategy: Community-Specific, Context-Mediate and Process-Oriented”, the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, June, 2005.

18. Avind Tavera, Yimin Zhu and Weihua Mao “A Survey on Sub-contractor Pre-qualification”, the proceedings of CITC-III, Athens, Greece, September, 2005.

19. Yimin Zhu, Thomas Froese and Raymond Issa, “XML-based Standards for Construction Data Exchange”, the proceedings of CRIOCM International Conference, pp. 142-144, Hong Kong, China, December, 2004.

20. Yimin Zhu, “Simulation-Based Energy Efficiency Study – A Case Study”,  the proceedings of the Second LACCEI International Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCET’2004), “Challenges and Opportunities for Engineering Education, Research and Development” , 2-4 June, 2004 Miami, Florida, USA.

21. Yimin Zhu and Shu-Ching Chen, “A Conceptual Framework of Ontology-based Scope Alignment”, submitted to the Second LACCEI International Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology (LACCET’2004), “Challenges and Opportunities for Engineering Education, Research and Development” , 2-4 June, 2004 Miami, Florida, USA.

22. Yimin Zhu and Godfried Augenbroe, “Workflow Process Views”, Proceedings of ECPPM (the European Conference on Product and Process Modeling), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, September, 2002.

23. Godfried Augenbroe and Yimin Zhu, “Private Process Integration for e-Business Applications in the AEC Industry”, Proceedings of CISEMIC (the First International Conference on Information Standardization, Exchanges and Management in Construction), University of Salford, U.K, November, 2002.

24. Yimin Zhu, Raymond Issa and Robert Cox, “Web-based construction document integration for interoperability”, Proceedings of 1^st International Conference (CIB) on ‘Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC)’, Loughborough University, UK, July, 2001.

25. Yimin Zhu and Raymond Issa, "Construction Information Access Through A Malleable Frame", the proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, CIB W78, May 1999, Vancouver, Canada.

26. Yimin Zhu, "A Control Mechanism for EDMS at Construction sites" the proceedings of the 8^th Annul Rinker International Conference (CD), February 1998, Gainesville, Florida.

27. Raymond Issa and Yimin Zhu, "Applying Push and Pull Technology for the Dissemination of Project Information" the proceedings of the 8^th Annual Rinker International Conference (CD), February 1998, Gainesville, Florida.

28. Yimin Zhu and Raymond Issa, "Achieving Sharing through Distributed Cooperation", the proceedings of the 8^th Annual Rinker International Conference (CD), February 1998, Gainesville, Florida.

29. Yimin Zhu and Liying Shen, "A Theoretical Model for Measuring Productivity of Construction Companies", CIB W89, 5-7 April 1995, Orlando, Florida.

30. Liyin Shen and Yimin Zhu, "An Insight Into The Top-Line Productivity In Construction Companies" the proceedings of the First International Conference on Construction Project Management, 11-12 January 1995, Singapore.

31. Yimin Zhu, "Empirical Studies of Construction Productivity At Industry Level", the proceedings of the National Conference on the Internationalization of Chinese Construction Industry, Beijing, China, February, 1994. 

32. Yimin Zhu and Zhihui Zhang, "The Production Function of the Chinese Construction Industry: An Empirical Study", the proceedings of the International Conference on Construction Economics and Management, Harbin, China, September 1993.