Ali A. Karakhan Ph.D. is a faculty member at University of Baghdad in Iraq. Dr. Karakhan completed his doctoral studies in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University in 2020. Dr. Karakhan conducts research on topics related to construction safety and management, workforce development in construction, construction technology adoption and integration, and sustainability.
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering l Construction Management
Teaching, Research, Engineering Work (Consultant), Service, Supervising students
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Construciton Research Council (CRC), ASCE Construciton Safety Committee, Construction Institute (CI)
Construciton safety Sustainable design and construciton Construciton techology Engineering management Workforce development Risk management
Engineering, Civil Engnieering, Constrction, Engineering Management
Construciton Safety, Project Management, Engineering Planning, Estimation, Scheduling and Planning
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Existing literature suggests that construction worker safety could be optimized using emerging technologies. However, the application of safety technologies in the construction industry is limited. One reason for the constrained adoption of safety technologies is the lack of empirical information for mitigating the risk of a failed adoption. The purpose of this paper is to fill the research gap through identifying key factors that predict successful adoption of safety technologies.
In total, 26 key technology adoption predictors
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Construction is a hazardous industry with a high number of injuries. Prior research found that many industry injuries can be prevented by implementing an effective safety plan if prepared and maintained by qualified safety personnel. However, there are no specific guidelines on how to select qualified construction safety personnel and what criteria should be used to select an individual for a safety position in the United States (US) construction industry. To fill this gap in knowledge, the study goal was to identify the desired qualifications of safety personnel in the US construction industry. To achieve the study goal, the Delphi technique was used as the main methodology for determining the desired qualifications for constructio
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The aims of this study are to measure the defect rate and analyze the problems of production of ready concrete mixture plant by using Six Sigma methodology which is a business strategy for operations improvement depending basically on the application of its sub-methodology DMAIC improvement cycle and the basic statistical tools where the process sigma level of concrete production in the case study was 2.41 σ.
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