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Faculty

Professor

Dr. Sheryl Staub-French

Dr. Staub-French is a 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

2018

S. Kim, Bhat, A., Poirier, E. A., and Staub-French, S., “Investigating Owner Requirements for BIM-Enabled Design Review”, in Construction Research Congress 2018, New Orleans, LA, 2018.

2017

P. A. Zadeh, Wang, G., Cavka, H. B., Staub-French, S., and Pottinger, R., “Information quality assessment for facility management”, Advanced Engineering Informatics, vol. 33, pp. 181–205, 2017.

E. Poirier, Staub-French, S., and Forgues, D., “The Impact of BIM on Collaboration: An Action-Cognition Perspective”, Building Research and Information, vol. 45, no. 6, 2017.

H. Cavka, Staub-French, S., and Poirier, E., “Developing owner information requirements for BIM-enabled project delivery and asset management”, Automation in Construction, vol. 83, pp. 169–183, 2017.

E. Poirier, Forgues, D., and Staub-French, S., “BIM In Canadian Research and Education”, in 11th BIM Academic Symposium & Job Task Analysis Review, Boston, MA, 2017.

K. Soo, Poirier, E., and Staub-French, S., “Developing a BIM Model for FM from Handover Documentation; A Case Study”, in Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2017.

S. Mehrbod, Staub-French, S., and Bai, W., “Analysis of Bottlenecks in BIM-based Building Design Coordination Process and Benchmarking State of the Art BIM Tools”, in Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2017.

A. Bhat, Poirier, E., and Staub-French, S., “Investigating the Potential of BIM to Address Project Delivery Issues”, in Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2017.

Y. Bai, Zadeh, P. A., Staub-French, S., and Pottinger, R., “Integrating GIS and BIM for Community-Scale Energy Modeling”, in International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure – Sustainable Cities for an Uncertain World, New York City, NY, 2017.

2016

K. Hu, Staub-French, S., Tory, M., and Nepal, M., “VisArchive: a time and relevance based visual interface for searching, browsing, and exploring project archives”, Visualization in Engineering, vol. 4, p. 6, 2016.

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Contact

sherylsf@civil.ubc.ca

604.827.5118

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

Faculty

Construction Engineering and Management

Virtual Design and Construction

3D Modeling Cost Estimating and Construction Planning

Advanced Building Information Modeling

2018

2017

2016

CEME - Room 2031