Dr. Khaled El-Rayes
Associate Professor
Construction Management
 3112 Newmark Civil Engineering Lab.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Tel: (217) 265-0557
email: elrayes@uiuc.edu

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PUBLICATIONS

Selected Journal Papers
 

  1. El-Rayes, K., and Said, H. (2008) "Optimizing Construction Site Layouts Using Approximate Dynamic Programming," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, accepted for publication. 

  2. El-Anwar, O., El-Rayes, K., and ElNashai, A. (2008) "Optimizing Large-Scale Temporary Housing Arrangements after Natural Disasters," Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, accepted for publication. 

  3. Khalafallah, A. and El-Rayes, K. (2008) "Minimizing Construction-Related Security Risks during Airport Expansion Projects," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 134(1), 40-48. 

  4. Hassan, M., Elseifi, M., Wakim, J., and El-Rayes, K. (2008) "Measurement of Pavement Surface Reflectance for a Balloon Lighting System," Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE, 134(10), 432-437.    

  5. Kandil, A. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Resource Utilization in Large-Scale Construction Projects,"  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(5),  491-498.  This paper was awarded the 2007 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize which recognizes papers whose authors describe in detail valuable contributions to construction management and construction engineering. The prize was instituted by ASCE at the Annual Meeting of 1882 and was endowed in 1884 by Thomas Fitch Rowland, past Vice President and Hon.M.ASCE.

  6. Khalafallah, A. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Optimizing Airport Construction Site Layouts to Minimize Wildlife Hazards," Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, 22(4), 176-185. 

  7. Kandil, A. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "MACROS: Multi-Objective Automated Construction Resource Optimization System,"  Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, 22(3), 126-134.

  8. Hyari, K. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Field Experiments to Evaluate Lighting Performance in Nighttime Construction,"  Journal of Construction Management and Economics, (June 2006) 24, 591–601.

  9. Khalafallah, A. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Minimizing Construction-Related Hazards in Airport Expansion Projects,"  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(6), 562-572.

  10. Hyari, K. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Lighting Requirements for Nighttime Highway Construction,"  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 132(5), 435-443.

  11. Hyari, K. and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Multi-objective Optimization for Scheduling Repetitive Construction Projects,"  Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, 22(1), 11-19.

  12. El-Rayes, K. and Hyari, K. (2005) "Optimal Lighting Arrangements for Nighttime Highway Construction Projects,"  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131(12), 1292-1300.

  13. El-Rayes, K. and Khalafallah, A. (2005) "Tradeoff between Safety and Cost in Planning Construction Site Layouts,"  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131(11), 1186-1195.

  14. Kandil, A. and El-Rayes, K. (2005) "Parallel Computing Framework for Optimizing Construction Planning in Large Scale Projects,"  Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 19(3), 304-312.

  15. El-Rayes, K. and Kandil, A. (2005) "Time-Cost-Quality Trade off Analysis for Highway Construction," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131(4), 477-486.

  16. El-Rayes, K. and Hyari, K. (2005) "CONLIGHT: Lighting Design Model for Nighttime Highway Construction," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131(4), 467-477.

  17. Moselhi, O., Assem, I., and El-Rayes, K. (2005) "Change Orders Impact on Labor Productivity," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 131(3), pp. 354-359.

  18.  Khalafallah, A., and El-Rayes, K. (2004) "Safety and Cost Considerations in Site Layout Planning," Housing and Building Research Center Journal, HBRC, 1(1). pp. 141-150.

  19. El-Rayes, K., Ramanathan, R., and Moselhi, O. (2002) "An Object-Oriented Model for Planning and Control of Housing Construction," Journal of Construction Management and Economics, 20(3), pp. 201-210.

  20. Moselhi, O. and El-Rayes, K. (2002) "Analyzing Weather-Related Construction Claims," Cost Engineering, AACE, 44(8), pp. 12-19.

  21. El-Rayes, K.  (2001) "Optimum Planning of Highway Construction Under the A + B Bidding Method”, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 127(4), pp. 261-269.

  22. El-Rayes, K. (2001) "Object Oriented Model for Repetitive Construction Scheduling,"  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 127(3), pp.199-205.

  23. El-Rayes, K. and Moselhi, O. (2001) "Impact of Rainfall on the Productivity of Highway Construction," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 127(2), pp. 125-131.

  24. El-Rayes, K. and Moselhi, O. (2001) "Optimizing Resource Utilization for Repetitive Construction Projects," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 127(1), pp. 18-27.

  25. El-Rayes, K. and Moselhi, O. (1998) "Resource-Driven Scheduling of Repetitive Activities on Construction Projects," Journal of Construction Management and Economics, 16(4), 433-446. 

  26. Moselhi, O., Gong, D., and El-Rayes, K. (1997) "Estimating Weather Impact on Duration of Construction Activities," Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 24(3), 359-366. 

  27. Moselhi, O., and El-Rayes, K. (1993) "Scheduling of Repetitive Projects With Cost Optimization," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 119(4), pp. 681-697. 

  28. Moselhi, O., and El-Rayes, K. (1993) "Least Cost Scheduling for Repetitive Projects," Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 20(5), 834-844. 
 

Selected Conference Papers

1.  Orabi, W., El-Rayes, K., Senouci, A., and Al-Derham, H. (2009) "Planning Post-Disaster Reconstruction Efforts of Damaged Transportation Networks” Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Seattle, April 5-7, 2009.

2.     Jun, D., and El-Rayes, K. (2009) "Multi-Objective Optimization of Resource Scheduling in Construction Projects” Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Seattle, April 5-7, 2009.

3.     Said, H., and El-Rayes, K. (2009) "Global Optimization Of Dynamic Site Layout Planning in Construction Projects" Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Seattle, April 5-7, 2009.

4.      ElAnwar, O., El-Rayes, K., and Elnashai, A. (2009) "An Automated Model for Optimizing Temporary Housing Arrangements after Natural Disasters" Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Seattle, April 5-7, 2009.

5.      Hassan, M., Elseifi, M.A., Wakim, J., El-Rayes, K. (2008). “Evaluation of Pavement Reflectance Characteristics for a Balloon Lighting System,” Paper No. 08-0522 presented at the Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 13-17, 2008.

6.      ElAnwar, O., El-Rayes, K., ElNashai, A. (2007) "Multi-Objective Optimization of Temporary Housing for The 1994 Northridge Earthquake" Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on Earthquake Loss Estimation for Turkey-Hazturk 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, September 24-26, 2007.

7.      El-Rayes, K., Liu, Liu, and Odeh, I. (2007) "Measuring And Quantifying Lighting Glare during Nighttime Highway Construction Projects" Proceedings of the 2007 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Bahamas, May 6-8, 2007.

8.      El-Rayes, K., and ElAnwar, O. (2007) "Post-Disaster Optimization of Temporary Housing Efforts" Proceedings of the 2007 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, Bahamas, May 6-8, 2007.

9.   Kandil, A., and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Multi-Parallel Computing Model for Optimizing Large Scale Construction Projects" submitted for the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, ASCE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 14-16, 2006.

10. Khalafallah, A., and El-Rayes, K. (2006) "Decision Support System for Optimizing Construction Site Layouts " submitted for the Joint International Conference on Computing and Decision Making in Civil and Building Engineering, ASCE, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 14-16, 2006.

11. Kandil, A., and El-Rayes, K. (2005) "Multi-Objective Optimization for the Construction of Large-Scale Infrastructure Systems" Proceedings of the 2005 Construction Research Congress, ASCE, San Diego, California, April 5-7, 2005.

12. El-Rayes, K. (2004) " IT-FOCUS: Information Technology Frameworks for Optimizing Construction Utilization of Resources in Civil Infrastructure Systems, Invited Keynote Lecture, International Conference on Future Vision & Challenges for Urban Development, Housing and Building Research Center, Egypt, December 22, 2004.

13. Hyari, K., and El-Rayes, K. (2004) "A Multi-objective Model for Optimizing Construction Planning of Repetitive Infrastructure Projects" the Tenth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, ICCCBE, Weimar, Germany, June 02-04, 2004.

14. Kandil, A., and El-Rayes, K. (2004) "Distributed Computing For Optimal Planning of Large-Scale Construction Projects" the Tenth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, ICCCBE, Weimar, Germany, June 02-04, 2004.  

15. El-Rayes, K., and Hyari, K. (2003) "Lighting Design for Highway Nighttime Construction Operations" Proceedings of the Second International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, ISEC-02, Rome, Italy, September 23-26, 2003.

16. El-Rayes, K., and Hyari, K. (2003) "Lighting Design Requirements for Highway Nighttime Construction" Proceedings of the ASCE Construction Research Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 19-21, 2003.

17. El-Rayes, K., and Hyari, K. (2002) "Automated DSS for Lighting Design of Nighttime Operations in Highway Construction Projects" Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC, Washington, DC, September 23-25, 2002.

18. Moselhi, O., Assem, I., and El-Rayes, K. (2002) "Up-Front Cost Estimating of Change Orders" Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of AACE International, Portland, OR, June 23-26, 2002.

19. Ramanathan, R., El-Rayes, K., and Moselhi, O. (2001) "Scheduling and Control of Residential Housing Projects" Proceedings of the 4th Construction Specialty Conference, CSCE, Victoria, British Columbia, May 30-June 2, 2001.

20. El-Rayes, K. (2000) "A Computer Model for Scheduling of Highway Construction,"  8th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (VIII-ICCCBE), American Society of Civil Engineers, Stanford University, California, August 14-17, 2000.

21. El-Rayes, K., and Moselhi, O. (1998) "Quantifying Impact of Weather on Construction Activities," First International Conference on New Information Technologies for Decision Making in Civil Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 11-13, 1998. 

22. El-Rayes, K., and Moselhi, O. (1997) "Optimized Scheduling for Highway Construction," Transactions of the 41st Annual Conference of American Association of Cost Engineers, Dallas, Texas, July 13-16, 1997.

23. El-Rayes, K., and Moselhi, O. (1997) "Computer-Assisted Scheduling for Repetitive Construction," Proceedings of the 25th CSCE Annual Conference, Sherbrooke, Quebec, May 27-30, 1997. 

24. El-Rayes, K., and Moselhi, O. (1996) "Optimum Resource Utilisation For Bidding on a Cost/Time Highway Contract," Proceedings of the Third Canadian Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 26-28, 1996. 

25. Moselhi, O., Gong, D., and El-Rayes, K. (1995) "A DSS for Estimating Weather Impact on Construction Productivity," ," Proceedings of the First Construction Specialty Conference, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 1-3, 1995. 

26. El-Rayes, K., and Moselhi, O. (1994) "LSCHEDULER: for Scheduling of Repetitive Projects," Proceedings of the PMI's 25th Anniversary Seminar/Symposium, Project Management Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 17-19, 1994. 

27. Moselhi, O., and El-Rayes, K. (1993) "An OOP Model for Scheduling of Repetitive Projects," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (V-ICCCBE), Volume 1, American Society of Civil Engineers, Anaheim, California, 1993. 

Selected Technical Reports

  1. El-Rayes, K., Liu, L., Soibelman, L. and Hyari, K. (2001) "Literature Review: Evaluation of Lighting for Highway Construction Operations in Illinois" First Interim Report, Project VD-H1, FY 00/01, Illinois Transportation Research Center, Illinois Department of Transportation, December 2001.

  2. El-Rayes, K., Liu, L., Soibelman, L. and Hyari, K. (2002) "Survey Results: Evaluation of Lighting for Highway Construction Operations in Illinois" Second Interim Report, Project VD-H1, FY 00/01, Illinois Transportation Research Center, Illinois Department of Transportation, June 2002.

  3.  El-Rayes, K., Liu, L., Soibelman, L. and Hyari, K. (2002) "Development of Design Criteria for Nighttime Construction Lighting" Interim Report, Project VD-H1, FY 00/01, Illinois Transportation Research Center, Illinois Department of Transportation, November 2002

  4.  El-Rayes, K., Liu, L., Soibelman, L. and Hyari, K. (2003) "Nighttime Construction: Evaluation of Lighting for Highway Construction Operations in Illinois" Final Report, Project VD-H1, FY 00/01, ITRC FR 00/01-2, Illinois Transportation Research Center, Illinois Department of Transportation, August 2003.

Thesis

El-Rayes, K. (1997) "Optimized Scheduling for Repetitive Construction Projects," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, September 1997. 

 

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