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Refereed Journals:

2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2003, 1999

Refereed Conferences:

2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999, 1997

Published in Refereed Journals

Legend:  Student

2015

• Cavka, H. Staub-French, S. and Pottinger, R. (2015). “Evaluating the Alignment of Organizational and Project Contexts for BIM Adoption: A Case Study of a large Owner Organization.” Accepted for publication in buildings, special issue on BIM in Building Lifecycle.
• Poirier, E., Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D. (2015). “Measuring the impact of BIM on labor productivity in a small specialty contracting enterprise through action-research.” Automation in Construction, Volume 58, 74–84.
• Poirier, E., Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D. (2015). “Assessing the Performance of the BIM Implementation Process within a Small Specialty Contracting Enterprise.” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 42(10): 766-778.
• Langroodi, B.P., Staub-French, S., and Nepal, M. (2015). “An Approach to Track Design Changes within a Multi-Disciplinary BIM Environment.” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, CSCE, 42(2): 139-152.

2014

• Poirier, E., Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D. (2014). “Embedded Contexts of Innovation: BIM Adoption and Implementation for a Specialty Contracting SME.” Construction Innovation, 15(1), 42-65.
• Lawrence, M., Pottinger, R., Staub-French, S. and Nepal, M. (2014). “Creating Flexible Mappings between Building Information Models and Cost Information.” Automation in Construction, Volume 45, 107-118.
• Russell, A.D., Tran, N., and Staub-French, S. (2014). “Searching for Value: Construction Strategy Exploration and Linear Planning.” Construction Management and Economics, 32(6), 520-547.

2013

• Nepal, M., Staub-French, S., Pottinger, R., and Zhang, J. (2013). “Ontology-based feature modeling for construction knowledge extraction from a Building Information Model.” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 27(5), September/October 2013, 555–569.
• Tory, M., Staub-French, S., Huang, D., Chang, Y.L., Swindells, C., and Pottinger, R. (2013). “Comparative Visualization of Construction Schedules.” Automation in Construction, Volume 29, 68–82.

2012

• Nepal, M., Staub-French, S., Pottinger, R., and Webster, A. (2012). “Towards Automated Extraction and Querying Of Construction-Specific Design Features from a Building Information Model (BIM).”  Advanced Engineering Informatics, 26 (4), 904–923.

2011

• Zhang, J., Webster; A., Lawrence, M., Nepal, M., Pottinger; R., Staub-French, S. and Tory, M. (2011). “Improving the Usability of Standard Schemas.”  Information Systems, 36, 209–221.

2009

• Huang, D., Tory, M., Staub-French, S. and Pottinger, R. (2009). “Visualization Techniques for Schedule Comparison.”  Special Issue of the Computer Graphics Forum, 28(3), pp. 951-958.
• Russell, A., Staub-French, S., Tran, N. and Wong, W. (2009). “Visualizing High-rise Building Construction Strategies Using Linear Scheduling and 4D CAD.” Automation in Construction, 18(2), p 219-236.

2008

• Tory, M., Staub-French, S., Po, B., and Wu, F. (2008). “Physical and Digital Artifact-Mediated Coordination in Building Design.” Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 17(4), p 311-351.
• Staub-French, S., Russell, A. and Tran, N. (2008). “Linear Scheduling and 4D Visualization.” ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 22(3), p 192-205.

2007

• Staub-French, S. and Khanzode, A. (2007). “3D/4D Modeling for Design and Construction Coordination: Issues and Lessons Learned.” Journal of Information Technology for Construction, Vol. 12, p 381-407.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Published in Refereed Conferences

Legend:  Student, Presenter

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Zadeh, P., Staub-French, S., Tory, M. and Mahyar, N. (2015). “Review of BIM Quality Assessment Approaches for Facility Management.” Accepted for publication in the 11th Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), June 8-10, 10 pages.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.  
• 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.  

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. *

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. *
• 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.  

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.

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] *

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.
• 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. *

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.

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. *

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.

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.