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The Charles W. Durham School of Architectural Engineering & Construction


Changbum Ahn
Assistant Professor

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Changbum Ahn
Assistant Professor
email: cahn2@unl.edu

University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The Charles W. Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
Nebraska Hall 113
Lincoln, NE 68588

Phone: 402.472.7431

   
Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D.  Construction Managment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012
  • M.S.  Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2012
  • M.S.E.  Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University, 2008
  • B.S.  Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University, 2006

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2012 – present
  • Project Engineer/ Ph.D. Intern, Turner Construction, 2011 – 2012
  • LEED Development Assistant, U.S. Green Building Council, 2010
  • Internet Service Project Manager, Empas Corp., 2003 – 2005
  • Application Developer, Elconsystem Corp., 2002-2003

Awards and Honors

  • Best Paper Award, the International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (ICCEPM)2012, 2013
  • Travel Grant for Construction Research Congress 2012, 2013
  • UIUC Fellowship/Pokrajac Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008 - 2009
  • First Place Award in Architectural Engineering Research Forum, Seoul National University, 2005
  • Nongpa Fellowship, A full tuition scholarship for undergraduate studies, given by a private charity, 1998-2002
  • Dean’s List Fellowship, Seoul National University, 1999-2001, 2006

Professional affiliations and activities

Service
  • Reviewer, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 2011 – Present
  • Reviewer, Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management, KICEM, 2011 – Present
  • Reviewer, Visualization in Engineering, SpringerOpen, 2013 – Present
  • Technical Committee, 2013 ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, 2013
  • Scientific Committee, 2012 International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, 2012
  • Reviewer, 2012 ASCE Construction Research Congress, 2012
  • Reviewer, 2011 ASCE International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction, 2011
  • Reviewer, 2010 ASCE Construction Research Congress, 2010
Affiliation
  • LEED AP Building Design + Construction, US Green Building Certification Institute
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Construction Industry Institute (CII)
  • U.S. Green Building Council New York Chapter
  • Fiatech

Courses Taught

University of Nebraska — Lincoln
  • CNST 379 Construction Estimating II (Spring, 2013)
  • CNST 241 Construction Equipment and Methods I (Fall, 2012)

Research Interests

Activity Recognition of Construction Equipment and Workers using Sensing Technologies, Simulation to Estimate the Environmental Sustainability of Construction, and Life-cycle Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Select Publications

  • Ahn, C., Lee, S., and Peña-Mora, F. (2013) “The Application of Low-Cost Accelerometers for Measuring the Operational Efficiency of a Construction Equipment Fleet.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, Reston, VA. (Submitted)
  • Ahn, C., Lewis, P., Golparvar, M., and Lee, S.(2013) “Toward An Integrated Framework for Estimating, Benchmarking and Monitoring the Environmental Impacts of Construction Operations.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Reston, VA. (Submitted)
  • Liu, C., Ahn, C., An, X., and Lee, S. (2013) “Life Cycle Assessment of Concrete Dam Construction: Comparison of Environmental Impacts Between Rock-Filled and Conventional Concrete.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Reston, VA. (Submitted)
  • Ahn, C., and Lee, S.H. (2013). “Importance of Operational Efficiency to Achieve Energy Efficiency and Exhaust Emission Reduction of Construction Operations.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Reston, VA. (In Press)
  • Ahn, C., Peña-Mora, F., Lee, S.H., and Arboleda, C. (2013). “Consideration of the Environmental Cost in Construction Contracting for Public Works: A+C and A+B+C bidding methods.” Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, Reston, VA, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 86-94.
  • Park, M., Jang, Y., Lee, H.S., Ahn, C. and Yoon, Y. S. (2012). “Application of Knowledge Management Technologies in Korean Small and Medium-sized Companies.” KSCE journal of Civil Engineering, Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE), Seoul, Korea, Vol. 17, No.1, pp. 22-32.
  • Ahn, C., Lee, S.H., Peña-Mora, F., and Abourizk, S. (2010). "Toward Environmentally Sustainable Construction Processes: The U.S. and Canada’s Perspective on Energy Consumption and GHG/CAP Emissions.” Sustainability, Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 354-370 (Invited Review Paper – Special Issue on Environmental Sustainability and the Built Environment).
  • Park, M., Ahn, C., Lee, H.S., and Hwang, S.J. (2009). “Analysis of the Korean Housing Market Mechanisms and Housing Sales Policies Using System Dynamics.” Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (KICEM), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 42 – 52.
  • Park, M., Ahn, C., Lee, H.S., and Lee, K.S. (2009). “A Bottom-up Approach Based Knowledge Management System for Construction Organizations.” Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (KICEM), Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 3–13.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications

  • Ahn, C., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2013). “Accelerometer-based Measurement of Construction Equipment Operating Efficiency for Monitoring Environmental Performance.” ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, June 23 -25. (Submitted)
  • Ahn, C., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2013). “Construction Equipment Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data for Monitoring Operational Efficiency and Environmental Performance.” International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management 2013, Anaheim, CA, Jan 9 –11. (Best Paper Award)
  • Ahn, C., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2012). “Monitoring System for Operational Efficiency and Environmental Performance of Construction Operations, Using Vibration Signal Analysis” Construction Research Congress 2012, West Lafayette, IN, May 21 – 23.
  • Ahn, C., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2011). “Carbon Emissions Quantification and Verification Strategies for Large-scale Construction projects.” In Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Design and Construction (ICSDC), Kansas City, Missouri, USA, March 23–25, 2011.
  • Ahn, C., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2011). “The opportunities and challenges for contractual consideration of construction-related carbon emissions from civil infrastructure projects.” In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (ICCEPM-2011), Sydney, Australia, February 16-18, 2011.
  • Ahn, C., Pan, W., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2010). “Lessons learned from utilizing discrete-event simulation modeling for quantifying construction emissions in pre-planning phase.” In Proceedings of the 42th Conference on Winter Simulation, Baltimore, MD, Dec 5, 2010.
  • Ahn, C., Pan, W., Lee, S.H., and Pena-Mora, F. (2010). “Enhanced estimation of air emissions from construction operations based on discrete-event simulation.” The International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE) 2010, Nottingham, U.K., Jun 30 - July 2, 2010.
  • Ahn, C., Xie, H., Lee, S.H., Abourizk, S., Pena-Mora, F. A. (2010). “Carbon Footprints Analysis for Tunnel Construction Processes in the Preplanning Phase Using Collaborative Simulation.” Construction Research Congress 2010, Banff, AB, Canada, May 8, 2010.
  • Ahn, C., Rekapalli, P. V., Martinez, J. C., Pena-Mora, F. A. (2009). “Sustainability Analysis of Earthmoving operations.” In Proceedings of the 41th Conference on Winter Simulation, Austin, TX, Dec 13, 2009.
  • Peña-Mora, F., Ahn, C., Golparvar-Fard, M., Hajibabai, L., Shiftehfar, S., An, S., Aziz, Z., Song, S.H. (2009). “A Framework for Managing Emissions during Construction.” International Conference and Workshop on Sustainable Green Building Design And Construction, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Ahn, C., Park, M., Lee, H.S., and Roh, S. (2007). “Project Based Knowledge Management System For Lean Construction.” Proceedings of the 15th annual conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), Michigan, USA.
  • Ahn, C., Park, M., Lee, H.S., Roh, S. (2007). “Project-based Knowledge Management System using Blogs.” 23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), Cochin, India, 2007.
  • Kwon, S., Park, M., Lee, H.S., and Ahn, C., (2007). “Measuring Knowledge Management performance of the construction organization.” Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (KICEM) Annual Conference, Busan, Korea.
  • Ahn, C., Park, M., Lee, H.S., Kim, E. (2006). “KMS Building Strategy for Small and Medium-sized General and Special Construction Companies.” Architectural Institute of Korea (AIK) Annual Conference, Daegu, Korea.