Publications

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Reports

2022

2020

2019

  • Staub-French, S.,  Zadeh, P., Chudasma, D., Goodland, H., Lam, A. (2019).  "Strategies for Collaborative Construction: Integrated Project Delivery Case Studies" BC Housing and Forestry Innovation Investment. (Download)

2018

2017

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2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

  • Nepal, M. and Staub-French, S. (2016). “Knowledge Engineering to Support Knowledge-Intensive Construction Management Tasks in BIM.”  Journal of Information Technology in Construction, Vol. 21, 13-38. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2015

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2013

2012

2011

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2008

2007

  • Staub-French, S. and Nepal, M. (2007). “Reasoning about Component Similarity in Building Product Models from the Construction Perspective.” Automation in Construction, 17(1), p 11-21. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Nie, H., Staub-French, S. and Froese, T. (2007). “OLAP-integrated Project Cost Control and Manpower Distribution Analysis.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 21(3), p 164-174. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2006

  • Tabesh, A. and Staub-French, S. (2006). “Modeling and Coordinating Building Systems in 3D: A Case Study.” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 33(12), p 1490-1504. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2003

  • Staub-French, S., Fischer, M., Kunz, J. and Paulson, B. (2003). “An Ontology for Relating Features with Activities to Calculate Costs.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 17(4), p 243-254. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Staub-French, S., Fischer, M., Kunz, J., Paulson, B. and Ishii, K. (2003). “A Feature Ontology to Support Construction Cost Estimating.” Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), 17(2), p 133-154. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Staub-French, S., Fischer, M., Kunz, J. and Paulson, B. (2003). “A Generic Feature-Driven Activity-Based Cost Estimation Process.” Advanced Engineering Informatics, 17(1), p 23-39. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

1999

  • Froese, T., Fischer, M., Grobler, F., Ritzenthaler, J., Yu, K., Sutherland, S., Staub, S., Akinci, B., Akbas, R., Koo, B., Barron, A., and Kunz, J. (1999). "Industry Foundation Classes for Project Management - A Trial Implementation." Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction, Vol. 4, p 17-36. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Published in Refereed Conferences

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2020

  • Bonanomi, M.M., Hall, D.M., Staub-French, S., (2020). “Governing Integrated Project Delivery as a Common Pool Resource Scenario: What Management Practices and Impact on Project Participants?” Engineering Project Organization Conference
  • Seniuk Cicek, J., Steele, A.L., Burgart, D., Rogalski, P., Gauthier, S., Mattucci, S., Bazylak, J., Mante, A., Robinson, M., Herrmann, R. and  Staub-French, S. (2020). “Indigenous Initiatives in Engineering Education in Canada: Collective Contributions” Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.vi0.14162

2018

2017

  • Bhat, A., Poirier, E., and Staub-French, S. “Investigating the Potential of BIM to Address Project Delivery Issues,” Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31 – June 3, 2017.
  • Mehrbod, S., Staub-French, S., and Bai, W. “Analysis of Bottlenecks in BIM-based Building Design Coordination Process and Benchmarking State of the Art BIM Tools,” Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31 –June 3, 2017.
  • Soo, K., Poirier, E., and Staub-French, S. “Developing a BIM Model for FM from Handover Documentation; A Case Study,”Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31 – June 3, 2017.
  • Poirier, E., Forgues, D., and Staub-French, S. “BIM In Canadian Research and Education.” Submitted to Academic InteroperabilityCoalition, 11th BIM Academic Symposium & Job Task Analysis Review, Boston, MA, April 3-4, 2017. Submitted on January 12, 2017.

2016

  • Fallahi, A., Poirier, E. Staub-French, s., Glatt, J., and Sills, N. (2016). “Designing for Pre-Fabrication and Assembly in the Construction of UBC’s Tall Wood Building.” Modular and Offsite Construction [MOC] Summit, Edmonton, AB, September 29 – October 1, 2016, 8 pages.
  • Poirier, E., Moudgil, M., Fallahi, A., Staub-French, S., and Tannert, T. (2016). “Design and Construction of a 53 meter Tall Timber Building at the University of British Columbia,” World Conference on Timber Engineering, Vienna, Austria, August 22-25, 10 pages.
  • Zadeh, P., Cavka, H., and Staub-French, S. (2016). “BIM Information Quality Analysis for Space Management.” 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Osaka, Japan, July 6 - 8, 10 pages.
  • Kalyan, S.T., Zadeh, P., Staub-French, S. and Froese, T.M. (2016). “Construction Quality Assessment using 3D as-built Models Generated with Project Tango.”  International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction, Tempe, AZ, May 18-20, 10 pages.
  • Kim, S., Zadeh, P., Staub-French, S., Froese, T.M., and Cavka, B.T. (2016). “Assessment of the Impact of Window Size, Position and Orientation on Building Energy Load Using BIM.”  International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction, Tempe, AZ, May 18-20, 10 pages.

2015

  • Cavka, B., Staub-French, S., and Pottinger, R. (2015). “Evaluation of Organisational Context and Requirements for Leveraging BIM to support Handover and Operations & Maintenance.” Accepted for publication in the 11th Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), June 8-10, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Cavka, B., Staub-French, S., and Tory, M. (2015). “Characterizing Bottlenecks in Design Coordination Meetings.” Accepted for publication in the 11th Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), June 8-10, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Poirier, E., Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D. (2015). “Investigating Model Evolution in a Collaborative BIM Environment.” Accepted for publication in the 11th Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), June 8-10, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Mehrbod, S., Staub-French, S., Tory, M. and Mahyar, N. (2015). “A Framework for Classifying BIM Design Coordination Issues.” Accepted for publication in the 11th Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), June 8-10, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Zadeh, P., Staub-French, S., and Pottinger, R. (2015). “Review of BIM Quality Assessment Approaches for Facility Management.” In ICSC15: The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 5th International/11th Construction Specialty Conference, 1887–1896. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2015. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2367.7282.  GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2014

  • Poirier, E., Forgues, D. and Staub-French, S. (2014). “Informing Action in Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration.” COMMON'14 (multimodal communication and instrumented collaboration), Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, September 24-26, 2014.
  • Poirier, E., Staub-French, S. and Forgues, D. (2014). “Dimensions of Interoperability in the AEC Industry.” Construction Research Congress, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 19-21, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2013

  • Poirier, E., Staub-French, S. and Forgues, D. (2013). “BIM adoption and implementation within a mechanical contracting firm.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference, Montreal, May 29-June 1. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Mehrbod, S., Staub-French, S. and Tory, M. (2013). “Interactions with BIM Tools in Design Coordination Meetings.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference, Montreal, May 29-June 1.
  • Cavka, H. and Staub-French, S. (2013). “Case Study of BIM Handover to Support Building Operations” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference, Montreal, May 29-June 1.
  • Tran, N., Russell, A. and Staub-French, S. (2013). “A Framework for Construction Strategy Formulation.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers Annual Conference, Montreal, May 29-June 1. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Tran, N., Russell, A. And Staub-French, S. (2013). “Construction Strategy Formulation and Assessment.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, Honolulu, June 18-23, 6 pages.

2012

  • Langroodi, B.P. and Staub-French, S. (2012). “Change Management with Building Information Models: A Case Study.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, West Lafayette, Indiana USA, May 21-23, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Nepal, M., Staub-French, S. and Pottinger, R. (2012). “Providing Query Support to Leverage BIM for Construction.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, West Lafayette, Indiana USA, May 21-23, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Tran, N., Russell, A.D. and Staub-French, S. (2012). “A framework for construction strategy formulation and visualization.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, West Lafayette, Indiana USA, May 21-23, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Forgues, D., Iordanova, I., Valdivesio, F., and Staub-French, S. (2012). “Rethinking the Cost Estimating Process through 5D BIM: A Case Study.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, West Lafayette, Indiana USA, May 21-23, p. 778-786. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2011

  • Lawrence, M., Pottinger, R. and Staub-French, S. (2011). “Data Coordination: Supporting Contingent Updates.” The International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Seattle, Wa. USA, Aug. 29-Sept. 3,. p. 831-842. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Forgues, D., Staub-French, S. Farah, M. (2011). “Teaching Building Design and Construction Engineering. Are we ready for the paradigm shift?” Canadian Engineering Education Association Second Annual Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, June 6-8, 6p. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2010

  • Lawrence, M., Pottinger, R. and Staub-French, S. (2010). “Coordination of Data in Heterogeneous Domains.” Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on New Trends in Information Integration (co-located with the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering), Long Beach, California USA, March 1-6, 4 pp. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2009

  • Nepal, M., Zhang, J., Webster, A., Staub-French, S., Pottinger, R. and Lawrence, M. (2009). “Querying IFC-based Building Information Models to Support Construction Management Functions.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Seattle, Washington, April 5-7, 10 pages. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2008

  • Russell, A.D., Staub-French, S., and Tran, N. (2008). “Creating a Visualization Environment for Assessing Construction Strategies.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Quebec City, June 10-13, 11 pp.
  • Nepal, M., Staub-French, S. Zhang, J., Lawrence, M. and Pottinger, R. (2008). “Deriving Construction Features from an IFC Model.” Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Quebec City, June 10-13, 11 pp. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Tory, M. and Staub-French, S. (2008). “Qualitative Analysis of Visualization: A Building Design Field Study.” in BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization (BELIV '08), Workshop at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2008, April 5-10, Florence, Italy, 8 pp. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2007

  • Tran, N., Russell, A.D. and Staub-French, S. (2007). “4D CAD via Linear Planning and 3D CAD.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, May 6-8, Grand Bahama Island, 10 pp. * GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2006

  • Fard, M. G., Staub-French, S., Po, B., Tory, M. (2006). “Requirements for a Mobile Interactive Workspace to Support Design Development and Coordination.” Proceedings of the ICCCBE-XI: 11th Int'l Conf. on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, June 14-16, p 3587-3596. * GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Zhang, K., Russell, A.D., Staub-French, S. (2006) “Knowledge Management as it Pertains to Construction Quality Management.” Proceedings of the CSCE 1st International Construction Specialty Conference, Calgary, AB, May 23-26, 10 pp. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2005

  • Tabesh, A. R. and Staub-French, S. (2005). “Case Study of Constructability Reasoning in MEP Coordination.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, San Diego, California, April 5-7, p 1223-1232. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2004

  • Staub-French, S. (2004). “Feature-based Product Models for Building Construction.” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-X), Weimar, Germany, June 2-4, p 237-251. [abstract only review]* GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2003

  • Staub-French, S. and Froese, T. (2003). “A Conceptual Framework for Representing Project Model Interfaces.” Proceedings of the CSCE 5th Construction Specialty Conference, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 4-7, p 125-134. [abstract only review]
  • Froese, T. and Staub-French, S. (2003). “A Unified Approach to Project Management.” Proceedings of the 4th Joint Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Nashville, Tennessee, November 12-15, p 87-98. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • Staub-French, S. (2003). “Providing Cost and Constructability Feedback to Designers.” Proceedings of the Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 19-21, p 151-158. * GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2002

  • Staub-French, S. and Fischer M. (2002). “Generating and Maintaining Activity-based Cost Estimates with Feature-Based Product Models.” 19th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Washington D.C., September 23-25, p 287-292. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

2000

  • Staub-French, S. and Fischer, M. (2000). "Formalisms and Mechanisms Needed to Maintain Cost Estimates based on an IFC Product Model." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE-VIII), Stanford University, August 14-17, p 716- 723. * GOOGLE SCHOLAR

1999

  • Staub, S., and Fischer, M. (1999). "The Practical Needs of Integrating Scope, Cost, and Time." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Durability of Building Materials and Components, CIB W78 Workshop on Information Technology in Construction, Vancouver, BC, May 30 - June 3, p 2888-2898. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

1997

  • Akinci, B., Staub, S., and Fischer, M. (1997). "Productivity and Cost Analysis Based on a 4D Model." IT Support for Construction Process Reengineering, CIB Proceedings, Publication 208, R. Drogemuller (Ed.), Cairns, Australia, July 9-11, p 23-32. GOOGLE SCHOLAR