Construction Planning, Equipment, & Methods 10th

Robert L. Peurifoy (1902–1995), after serving as principal specialist in engineering education for the U.S. Office of Education during World War II, began teaching construction engineering at Texas A&M University in 1946. In the years that followed, Peurifoy led the transformation of the study of construction engineering into an academic discipline. The first edition of Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods, authored by Peurifoy, was published in 1956. In 1984, the Peurifoy Construction Research Award was instituted by the American Society of Civil Engineers upon recommendation of the Construction Research Council. This award was instituted to honor R. L. Purifoy's exceptional leadership in construction education and research.

Clifford J. Schexnayder is an Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the Del E. Webb School of Construction, Arizona State University. Taking over from Robert L. Peurifoy, in 1992 he has authored five editions of this book and the latest edition of Moving the Earth. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Purdue University, and a Master's and Bachelor's in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. A construction engineer with over 50 years of practical experience, Dr. Schexnayder has worked with major heavy/highway construction contractors as field engineer, estimator, and corporate chief engineer. Additionally, he served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on active duty and in the reserves, retiring as a colonel. His last assignment was as Executive Director, Directorate of Military Programs, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Washington, D.C. He has served as a consultant to the Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, to the Secretary of the Business, Transportation & Housing Agency of California to review risks associated with constructing the main east span of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian for its The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire exhibit. Dr. Schexnayder is a registered professional engineer in two states, a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Construction and the Academia Panamericana de Ingeniería. He served as chairman of the ASCE's Construction Division and on the task committee, which formed the ASCE Construction Institute. From 1997 to 2003, he served as chairman of the Transportation Research Board's Construction Section.

Robert L. Schmitt is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville campus. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering (construction engineering and management) from the University of Wisconsin—Madison, a Master's of civil engineering from Purdue University, and a Bachelor's of civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin—Platteville. Dr. Schmitt has 30 years of construction industry practice, research, and teaching experience.

Dr. Schmitt was an estimator and project manager for a building contractor in the Midwest, then consulted for a Top-100 general contractor in the Washington, D.C. metro region in the design-build division. He was a project engineer and materials engineer on numerous highway construction projects and a range of municipal public works facilities, including building projects, streets, dams, landfills, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, and water distribution systems. Dr. Schmitt is a cost estimating consultant to an international cost management firm for building and site development projects throughout the world and responsible for estimating design-build and fast-tracked projects, conducting site investigations, participating in constructability reviews, analyzing project risks, and performing value engineering studies. Dr. Schmitt has served on regional technical committees of Associated General Contractors, American Society of Civil Engineers, State Departments of Transportation, and the NCHRP. He was a project management instructor for the National Asphalt Pavement Association. Dr. Schmitt was a Fulbright Scholar in Peru and continues to teach Master's courses and provide construction equipment and materials expertise to practicing engineers in South America. Dr. Schmitt is a registered professional engineer and member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Concrete Pavement Association, Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, and educational member of the local chapter of Associated General Contractors of America.

Aviad Shapira is a Professor (Emeritus) of Construction Engineering and Management in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and D.Sc. degrees in civil engineering from the Technion. He spent 1 year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under a grant from the U.S. Air Force. Over the years he was also a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Dr. Shapira accrued his practical experience as a project engineer and project manager in a general contracting firm prior to pursuing an academic career. He has taught construction equipment and formwork design in Israel and the United States since 1985, and authored or co-authored various texts addressing these subjects, including Peurifoy's Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods (2006, 2011, and 2018). His research in construction engineering and management has focused on equipment selection, operation, productivity, and safety, and on multicriteria decision analysis and knowledge formalization. He has conducted his research in Israel, the United States, and Germany, and is the codeveloper of an innovative crane-mounted video camera system that serves as an operator aid. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of Committee 347 Formwork for Concrete of the American Concrete Institute, and the Chair of the various formwork standardization committees of the Standard Institution of Israel. Dr. Shapira is a member of the American National Academy of Construction and the recipient of both the ASCE Construction Management Award and the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Best Paper Award. In 2009, he was recognized by ENR as a Top-25 Newsmaker.

Aaron Cohen, CPC, served for 10 years as the President and Owner of Apollo Trenchless, Inc., an engineering and construction services provider specializing in the application of trenchless technologies for municipal construction projects. He has worked as a project manager and estimator on infrastructure and utility construction projects. He held the Associated General Contractors (AGC) Lecturer position at Arizona State University where he currently teaches courses in heavy/civil estimating, heavy construction project management and project controls in the Del E. Webb School of Construction. Aaron received a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University as well as a Master of Science degree from DePaul University. Currently Aaron is Director, Estimating Products with InEight, Inc. He regularly consults with various owners and engineers regarding the constructability of underground utility infrastructure projects. He has spoken on the subjects of Horizontal Directional Drilling, Pipe Bursting and Slip Lining at many regional and national trade shows for industry associations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Water Works Association (AWWA), American Public Works Association (APWA), Underground Construction Technology (UCT) Expo and the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) No-Dig show. Additionally, he has been an instructor at the Horizontal Directional Drilling Academy since its inception in 2014.