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Professor
Dr. Sheryl Staub-French
Bio

Dr. Staub-French is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering.  She received her BS in Civil Engineering from Santa Clara University and her MS and PhD from Stanford University. She has over 15 years of consulting and research experience studying the technological and organizational issues of Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementation.  She is actively engaged with industry to advance BIM adoption, currently serving as a member of the Education Committee and the Technical Advisory Board of BuildingSMART Canada.

Research Area / Group
Project & Construction Management
Research Interests

Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), Building Information Modeling (BIM), collaboration and integrated project delivery, design and construction coordination, 4D (3D + time) visualization, interactive workspaces

Courses
CIVL 300

Construction Engineering and Management

Project delivery systems: traditional; construction management; turnkey; project management. Network planning methods. Activity planning, including construction methods selection. Estimating, bidding and bonding. Project control tools and procedures. Safety considerations and quality control.
CIVL 426

Virtual Design and Construction

Creation and use of building information models (BIM) for managing the construction process. 3D parametric modeling, 4D modeling, design coordination, model-based cost estimating, BIM performance measurement, and integrated project delivery methods.
CIVL 526

3D Modeling Cost Estimating and Construction Planning

Modeling the relationships between design, cost, and schedule information to manage and control construction. Conceptual and detailed estimating techniques; construction resources and productivity; CPM scheduling; value engineering and constructability analysis.
CIVL 598A

Advanced Building Information Modeling

Latest Publications

2015

H. Cavka, Staub-French, S., and Pottinger, R., “Evaluating the Alignment of Organizational and Project Contexts for BIM Adoption: A Case Study of a large Owner Organization”. 2015.
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E. Poirier, Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D., “Measuring the impact of BIM on labor productivity in a small specialty contracting enterprise through action-research”, Automation in Construction, vol. 58, no. 74-84, 2015.
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E. Poirier, Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D., “Assessing the Performance of the BIM Implementation Process within a Small Specialty Contracting Enterprise”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 42, no. 10, 2015.
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B. P. Langroodi, Staub-French, S., and Nepal, M., “An Approach to Track Design Changes within a Multi-Disciplinary BIM Environment”, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 42, no. 2, 2015.
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2014

E. Poirier, Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D., “Embedded Contexts of Innovation: BIM Adoption and Implementation for a Specialty Contracting SME”, Construction Innovation, vol. 15, no. 1, 2014.
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M. Lawrence, Pottinger, R., Staub-French, S., and Nepal, M., “Creating Flexible Mappings between Building Information Models and Cost Information”, Automation in Construction, vol. 45, 2014.
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2013

A. D. Russell, Tran, N., and Staub-French, S., “Searching for Value: Construction Strategy Exploration and Linear Planning”, Construction Management and Economics, vol. 32, no. 6, 2013.
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M. Tory, Staub-French, S., Huang, D., Chang, Y. L., Swindells, C., and Pottinger, R., “Comparative Visualization of Construction Schedules”, Automation in Construction, vol. 29, pp. 68-82, 2013.
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M. Nepal, Staub-French, S., Pottinger, R., and Zhang, J., “Ontology-based feature modeling for construction knowledge extraction from a Building Information Model”, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2013.
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J. Montgomery, Nesbit, S., Ellis, N., Froese, T., Staub-French, S., and Cruickshank, H., “Filling the Gap in Engineering Education for Sustainability: Developing a Cohort-based Masters Degree in Engineering Leadership for Sustainability”, 6th International Conference of Engineering Education for Sustainable Development. University of Cambridge, 2013.
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Contact
sherylsf@civil.ubc.ca
T:
604.827.5118
F:
604.822.7006
Personal Website:
http://bimtopics.civil.ubc.ca
Location:

CEME - Room 2031

Civil and Mechanical Engineering Building
The University of British Columbia
6250 Applied Science Lane
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
Department of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
2002 - 6250 Applied Science Lane

Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4

Tel 604 822 2637

Fax 604 822 6901
E-mail info@civil.ubc.ca

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