{"210181":{"#nid":"210181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Construction Faculty Awarded Grant by Georgia Department of Transportation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of Research at the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded Dr. Baabak Ashuri a $206,164 research grant. The 18 month project, \u201cInnovative Project Delivery Using Alternative Financing Mechanisms: Assessment of Benefits, Costs, and Risks\u201d will study the complexity of combining financing into the innovative project delivery process. The goal of this research is to identify and analyze major opportunities, risks, and best practices for utilizing alternative financing mechanisms in developing surface transportation projects through innovative project delivery system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bc.gatech.edu\/people\/baabak-ashuri\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Baabak Ashuri \u003C\/a\u003Eis director of the Georgia Tech Economics of the Sustainable Built Environment (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.esbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EESBE\u003C\/a\u003E) 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 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Building Construction \u003C\/a\u003Eat 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.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Office of Research at the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded Dr. Baabak Ashuri a $206,164 research grant.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27709","created_gmt":"2013-04-29 11:36:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:08","author":"Rachel Von Ins","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"199421":{"id":"199421","type":"image","title":"Ashuri 2013","body":null,"created":"1449179934","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:58:54","changed":"1475894851","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:31","alt":"Ashuri 2013","file":{"fid":"196525","name":"ashuri_2012.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashuri_2012_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ashuri_2012_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":290437,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ashuri_2012_0.jpg?itok=y-ic9ezC"}}},"media_ids":["199421"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"42141","name":"Dr. Baabak Ashuri"},{"id":"167100","name":"school of building construction"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERachel Von Ins\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rachel.vonins@coa.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erachel.vonins@coa.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}