The Office of Research at the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded Dr. Baabak Ashuri a grant to study "Streamlining Project Delivery through Risk Analysis."  The grant is funding a multidisciplinary effort among faculty in the Georgia Tech School of Building Construction and the School of Public Policy. Dr. Baabak Ashuri, Dr. Gordon Kingsley, and Dr. Juan Rogers are co-investigators on the project. The major objective of this $499,994 project is to elevate the current state of practice in risk management through early identification of risk in transportation projects. The research will lead to the development of a comprehensive guidebook that advances the adoption of risk analysis tools to enhance the process of project delivery in GDOT. The end product will be a set of best practices for risk analysis that helps GDOT reduce cost overruns and schedule delays while streamlining the delivery and completion of projects.

 

Dr. Baabak Ashuri is director of the Georgia Tech Economics of the Sustainable Built Environment (ESBE) Lab in the School of Building Construction. He specializes in economic decision analysis, strategic risk management, investment analysis under uncertainty (e.g., the Real Option Methodology), capital budgeting, and project finance. He is an assistant professor in the School of Building Construction at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches decision analysis and risk management, building economics and value engineering, and real option analysis for life cycle costing of flexible infrastructure assets.

 

Dr. Gordon Kingsley is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he teaches and conducts research in the fields of organization theory, public administration, science and technology policy and environmental policy. The focus of his work is examining how the interactions of government agencies and the private sector firms shape two types of policy goals: the transfer and diffusion of technology and compliance with environmental regulations. This work has received sponsorship from the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Environmental Policy Institute, and the New York State Research & Development Authority. His work has been accepted for publication in Research Policy, Evaluation and Program Planning, Policy Studies Journal and Public Productivity and Management Review.

 

Dr. Juan Rogers is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Research Value Mapping Program in the  School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He teaches courses on science and technology policy, information management and policy, knowledge management, logic of policy inquiry, and bureaucracy and policy implementation.  His current research interests include modeling the R&D process, assessment of R&D impacts, especially in the formation of scientific and technical human capital, technology transfer, R&D policy and evaluation, the interaction of social and technical factors in the development of information technology, and information technology policy.