210181 news 1367235385 1475896448 <![CDATA[Building Construction Faculty Awarded Grant by Georgia Department of Transportation]]> The Office of Research at the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded Dr. Baabak Ashuri a $206,164 research grant. The 18 month project, “Innovative Project Delivery Using Alternative Financing Mechanisms: Assessment of Benefits, Costs, and Risks” 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.

Dr. Baabak Ashuri is director of the Georgia Tech Economics of the Sustainable Built Environment (ESBE) 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 School of Building Construction at 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.

]]> 2013-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 The Office of Research at the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded Dr. Baabak Ashuri a $206,164 research grant.

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