Rafael Sacks
#162,930
Most Influential Person Now
Researcher
Rafael Sacks's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Rafael Sacksengineering Degrees
Engineering
#7092
World Rank
#8454
Historical Rank
Construction Engineering
#38
World Rank
#39
Historical Rank
Civil Engineering
#361
World Rank
#427
Historical Rank
Applied Physics
#2386
World Rank
#2427
Historical Rank

Download Badge
Engineering
Rafael Sacks's Degrees
- PhD Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Structural Engineering Stanford University
- Bachelors Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Rafael Sacks Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)Rafael Sacks's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors (2008) (4262)
- Interaction of Lean and Building Information Modeling in Construction (2010) (549)
- BIM Handbook (2018) (425)
- Specifying parametric building object behavior (BOB) for a building information modeling system (2006) (424)
- Construction safety training using immersive virtual reality (2013) (397)
- Requirements for building information modeling based lean production management systems for construction (2010) (330)
- Construction Job Safety Analysis (2010) (273)
- Tracking and locating components in a precast storage yard utilizing radio frequency identification technology and GPS (2007) (267)
- Hazard recognition and risk perception in construction (2014) (251)
- Exchange Model and Exchange Object Concepts for Implementation of National BIM Standards (2010) (241)
- Parametric 3D modeling in building construction with examples from precast concrete (2004) (237)
- Assessing research issues in Automated Project Performance Control (APPC) (2007) (234)
- Construction safety and digital design: A review (2012) (228)
- Semantics of model views for information exchanges using the industry foundation class schema (2012) (198)
- Visualization of Work Flow to Support Lean Construction (2009) (193)
- Toward automated generation of parametric BIMs based on hybrid video and laser scanning data (2010) (186)
- Teaching Building Information Modeling as an Integral Part of Freshman Year Civil Engineering Education (2010) (180)
- Relative Productivity in the AEC Industries in the United States for On-Site and Off-Site Activities (2008) (177)
- Benchmark tests for BIM data exchanges of precast concrete (2009) (168)
- Building Information Modeling Education for Construction Engineering and Management. I: Industry Requirements, State of the Art, and Gap Analysis (2013) (159)
- Impact of three-dimensional parametric modeling of buildings on productivity in structural engineering practice (2008) (148)
- The Rosewood experiment — Building information modeling and interoperability for architectural precast facades (2010) (144)
- Spatial and Temporal Exposure to Safety Hazards in Construction (2009) (142)
- Semantic Enrichment for Building Information Modeling (2016) (132)
- Life-cycle data management of engineered-to-order components using radio frequency identification (2007) (129)
- Prototyping Virtual Reality Serious Games for Building Earthquake Preparedness: The Auckland City Hospital Case Study (2018) (122)
- Case studies of BIM adoption for precast concrete design by mid-sized structural engineering firms (2008) (120)
- Lean Management Model for Construction of High-Rise Apartment Buildings (2007) (117)
- Construction with digital twin information systems (2020) (114)
- Modern Construction: Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices (2013) (112)
- Building Information Modeling Education for Construction Engineering and Management. II: Procedures and Implementation Case Study (2013) (106)
- An economic game theory model of subcontractor resource allocation behaviour (2006) (100)
- LEAPCON: Simulation of Lean Construction of High-Rise Apartment Buildings (2007) (98)
- Process Model Perspectives on Management and Engineering Procedures in the Precast'Prestressed Concrete Industry (2004) (93)
- Requirements for BIM platforms in the concrete reinforcement supply chain (2013) (92)
- SeeBridge as next generation bridge inspection: Overview, Information Delivery Manual and Model View Definition (2018) (91)
- Comparing machine learning and rule-based inferencing for semantic enrichment of BIM models (2018) (86)
- Feasibility of automated monitoring of lifting equipment in support of project control (2005) (84)
- An Empirical Study of Information Flows in Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering Design Teams using Lean Measures (2011) (80)
- Analysis framework for the interaction between lean construction and building information modelling (2009) (78)
- Safety by design: dialogues between designers and builders using virtual reality (2015) (75)
- A Target Benchmark of the Impact of Three-Dimensional Parametric Modeling in Precast Construction (2005) (73)
- Semantic Enrichment for Building Information Modeling: Procedure for Compiling Inference Rules and Operators for Complex Geometry (2017) (70)
- What constitutes good production flow in construction? (2016) (69)
- Building Project Model Support for Automated Labor Monitoring (2003) (66)
- Measuring information flow in the detailed design of construction projects (2010) (60)
- Building Information Modelling, Artificial Intelligence and Construction Tech (2020) (58)
- Eliciting information for product modeling using process modeling (2007) (57)
- KanBIM Workflow Management System: Prototype implementation and field testing (2013) (53)
- An Immersive Virtual Reality Serious Game to Enhance Earthquake Behavioral Responses and Post-earthquake Evacuation Preparedness in Buildings (2019) (53)
- Effects of the Last Planner System on Social Networks among Construction Trade Crews (2015) (52)
- Towards generation of as-damaged BIM models using laser-scanning and as-built BIM: First estimate of as-damaged locations of reinforced concrete frame members in masonry infill structures (2016) (51)
- 3D Object Classification Using Geometric Features and Pairwise Relationships (2018) (49)
- Examination of the effects of a KanBIM production control system on subcontractors' task selections in interior works (2014) (48)
- Construction flow index: a metric of production flow quality in construction (2017) (48)
- ‘CHASTE’: construction hazard assessment with spatial and temporal exposure (2009) (46)
- Unique Requirements of Building Information Modeling for Cast-in-Place Reinforced Concrete (2007) (44)
- Integrating RC Bridge Defect Information into BIM Models (2018) (42)
- Stabilizing Production Flow of Interior and Finishing Works with Reentrant Flow in Building Construction (2013) (42)
- A review of building information modeling protocols, guides and standards for large construction clients (2016) (40)
- A project model for an automated building system: design and planning phases (1997) (39)
- BIM adoption by public facility agencies: impacts on occupant value (2017) (38)
- Simulating the behavior of trade crews in construction using agents and building information modeling (2017) (37)
- Product data modeling using GTPPM - A case study (2007) (34)
- The Need for Enhancing Earthquake Evacuee Safety by Using Virtual Reality Serious Games (2017) (33)
- PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS IN PRECAST CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION USING TOP-DOWN PARAMETRIC 3-D COMPUTER-MODELING (2003) (32)
- Grammatical rules for specifying information for automated product data modeling (2006) (31)
- Towards a New Understanding of the Construction Industry and the Nature of Its Production (2007) (31)
- Strategies for Realizing the Benefits of 3D Integrated Modeling of Buildings for the AEC Industry (2002) (31)
- Information modeling of earthquake-damaged reinforced concrete structures (2015) (30)
- Structural design in an automated building system (2000) (30)
- Empire State Building Project: Archetype of “Mass Construction” (2010) (28)
- A Knowledge-Based Framework for Quantity Takeoff and Cost Estimation in the AEC Industry Using BIM (2014) (28)
- PRACTICAL MULTIFACTOR APPROACH TO EVALUATING RISK OF INVESTMENT IN ENGINEERING PROJECTS (2004) (27)
- A Brief History of the Concept of Waste in Production (2012) (27)
- Building Lean, Building BIM: Improving Construction the Tidhar Way (2017) (26)
- Evaluation of Economic Impact of Three-Dimensional Modeling in Precast Concrete Engineering (2004) (26)
- Development Of The National BIM Standard (NBIMS) For Precast/Prestressed Concrete (2010) (26)
- Conceptualization of Interdependency and Coordination Between Construction Tasks (2011) (25)
- Towards a Lean Understanding of Resource Allocation in a Multi-Project Sub-Contracting Environment (2004) (24)
- Development and implementation of advanced IT in the North American precast concrete industry (2003) (24)
- Preparation of Synthetic As-Damaged Models for Post-Earthquake BIM Reconstruction Research (2016) (24)
- Preparing Civil Engineers for International Collaboration in Construction Management (2011) (23)
- Monitoring Construction Equipment for Automated Project Performance Control (2002) (22)
- Hybrid Discrete Event Simulation and Virtual Reality Experimental Setup for Construction Management Research (2015) (22)
- Impacts of the Social Subcontract and Last Planner System Interventions on the Trade-Crew Workflows of Multistory Residential Construction Projects (2016) (21)
- 3D Modeling and Real-Time Monitoring in Support of Lean Production of Engineered-to-Order Precast Concrete Buildings (2003) (21)
- Clustering Information Types for Semantic Enrichment of Building Information Models to Support Automated Code Compliance Checking (2020) (20)
- A workflow model for systems and interior finishing works in building construction (2011) (19)
- Relationships between Methods for Constructability Analysis during Design and Constructability Failures in Projects (2012) (19)
- Interior models of earthquake damaged buildings for search and rescue (2016) (19)
- Automating Design Review with Artificial Intelligence and BIM: State of the Art and Research Framework (2019) (19)
- Evaluation of Lean Improvements in Residential Construction Using Computer Simulation (2006) (18)
- IMPROVING THE ROBUSTNESS OF MODEL EXCHANGES USING PRODUCT MODELING 'CONCEPTS' FOR IFC SCHEMA (2011) (18)
- FUNCTIONAL MODELING IN PARAMETRIC CAD SYSTEMS (2004) (18)
- Deriving a product model from process models (2002) (17)
- ENGINEERING SEMANTICS OF MODEL VIEWS FOR BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL EXCHANGES USING IFC (2010) (16)
- Interpretation of Automatically Monitored Lifting Equipment Data for Project Control (2006) (16)
- Exploring graph neural networks for semantic enrichment: Room type classification (2021) (16)
- Exploring the influence of socio-historical constructs on BIM implementation: an activity theory perspective (2020) (16)
- A FRAMEWORK FOR SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT OF IFC BUILDING MODELS (2013) (16)
- A new formal and analytical approach to modeling engineering project information processes (2002) (15)
- Pull-driven Construction of High-rise Apartment Buildings (2005) (15)
- Longitudinal Study of BIM Adoption by Public Construction Clients (2020) (15)
- Interoperability for precast concrete building models (2014) (15)
- Social Network Development in Last Planner System Implementations (2013) (14)
- Development of a Knowledge-Rich CAD System for the North American Precast Concrete Industry (2003) (14)
- Proceedings for the 14th Annual Conference in the International Group for Lean Construction (2006) (13)
- The Relationship Between Information Flow and Project Success in Multi-Disciplinary Civil Engineering Design (2010) (13)
- Generating IFC Views And Conformance Classes Using GTPPM (2006) (13)
- How Last Planner Motivates Subcontractors to Improve Plan Reliability – a Game Theory Model (2006) (12)
- INTERPLAY OF LEAN THINKING AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN CONSTRUCTION (2015) (10)
- Lean Scheduling for Safety: Development of a Time-dependent Risk Level Model (2005) (10)
- A Methodology for Assessment of the Impact of 3D Modeling of Buildings on Structural Engineering Productivity (2005) (10)
- Quantitative assessment of the impacts of BIM and lean on process and operations flow in construction projects (2021) (10)
- Twelve Design Patterns for Integrating and Normalizing Product Model Schemas (2007) (10)
- SeeBridge Information Delivery Manual (IDM) for Next Generation Bridge Inspection (2016) (9)
- Go or No-Go Decisions at the Construction Workface: Uncertainty, Perceptions of Readiness, Making Ready and Making-Do (2012) (9)
- KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS TO ANALYZE AND IMPROVE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION FLOW IN THE BIM DESIGN PROCESSand improve management of information flow in the BIM design process (2011) (9)
- A Semantic Enrichment Engine for Building Information Modelling (2014) (9)
- UNDERSTANDING FLOW AND MICRO- VARIABILITY IN CONSTRUCTION: THEORY AND PRACTICE (2007) (9)
- Production System Instability and Subcontracted Labor (2008) (9)
- Indoor Tracking of Construction Workers Using BLE: Mobile Beacons and Fixed Gateways vs. Fixed Beacons and Mobile Gateways (2019) (8)
- Production control systems for construction at the nexus of Lean and BIM (2020) (8)
- Computer Integrated Construction (1995) (8)
- A Lean Workflow Index for Construction Projects (2014) (8)
- Introducing a New Methodology to Develop the Information Delivery Manual for AEC Projects (2010) (8)
- Similarities and Differences between Humans' and Social Insects' Building Processes and Building Behaviors (2014) (7)
- Simulating and Vizualising Emergent Production in Construction (EPIC) Using Agents and BIM (2015) (7)
- Implementation of Pull Control in Finishing Works With Re-Entrant Flow (2010) (7)
- OVERCOMING "BUT WE'RE DIFFERENT": AN IPD IMPLEMENTATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST (2016) (7)
- PRODUCTION FLOW IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF TALL BUILDINGS (2009) (7)
- Building Model Object Classification for Semantic Enrichment Using Geometric Features and Pairwise Spatial Relations (2017) (7)
- Subcontractor Resource Allocation in a Multi-Project Environment – Field Study (2006) (6)
- BIM for Owners and Facility Managers (2008) (6)
- Configurable Model Exchanges for the Precast/Pre-Stressed Concrete Industry Using Semantic Exchange Modules (SEM) (2012) (6)
- Integrated AEC Information Services Using Object Methods and a Central Project Model (2002) (6)
- TOWARDS A LEAN UNDERSTANDING OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN A MULTI-PROJECT SUBCONTRACTING ENVIRONMENT ( or ' What makes sub-contractors tick ? ' ) (2004) (5)
- Toward artificially intelligent cloud-based building information modelling for collaborative multidisciplinary design (2022) (5)
- Field Tests of the Kanbim™ Lean Production Management System (2011) (5)
- An Automated System for Projection of Interior Construction Layouts (2019) (5)
- CONSTRUCTIBLE BIM ELEMENTS -A ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF WORK PLAN FAILURES (2015) (5)
- Agent-based simulation of construction workflows using a relational data model (2016) (5)
- Utilizing BIM to Improve the Concrete Reinforcement Supply Chain (2012) (5)
- Automated model checking for topologically complex code requirements – security room case study (2019) (5)
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Rethinking Approaches to Managing the Construction of Multi-Story Apartment Buildings (2016) (4)
- A Cloud-Based BIM Platform for Information Collaboration (2016) (4)
- The Future: Building with BIM (2008) (4)
- Development of an Intelligent 3D Parametric Modeling System for fhe North American Precast Concrete Industry: Phase II (2004) (4)
- Production Process Evaluation for Earthworks (2020) (4)
- ROADELS: discrete information objects for production planning and control of road construction (2020) (4)
- BIM for the Construction Industry (2008) (3)
- A specialized information schema for production planning and control of road construction (2018) (3)
- A Computational Procedure for Generating Specimens of BIM and Point Cloud Data for Building Change Detection (2015) (3)
- Mapping the Structural Frame of a Damaged Reinforced Concrete Building using As-Damaged Scans and As-Built BIM (2015) (3)
- An attempt to rearrange available calendar-year biostatistics on the Cape horse mackerel stock off Namibia on a reproductive-cycle basis, and the VPA results (1991) (3)
- Empirical investigation of the applicability of constructability methods to prevent design errors (2021) (3)
- Craft Construction, Mass Construction, Lean Construction: Lessons From the Empire State Building (2008) (3)
- BIM Tools and Parametric Modeling (2008) (3)
- Empirical Assessment of the Impact of VDC and Lean on Environment and Waste in Masonry Operations (2020) (2)
- Education and motivation (2017) (2)
- Work structuring and product design for customized repetitive projects (2021) (2)
- The project model of an automated building system (1995) (2)
- A two‐stage recursive ray tracing algorithm to automatically identify external building objects in building information models (2021) (2)
- CBIM: Graph-Based Inter-domain Consistency Maintenance for BIM Models (2022) (2)
- Foundational concepts for BIM (2021) (2)
- A Portfolio/Process/Operations (PPO) Analysis of a Meta-Project Production System in Renovation Projects (2017) (2)
- Interoperability for precast concrete (2014) (2)
- BIM for Architects and Engineers (2008) (2)
- Concrete Reinforcement Modeling for Efficient Information Sharing (2013) (2)
- Building Safely by Design: Interim Report (2011) (2)
- Learning to See – Managers Working in the Gemba as Part of the Tidhar Way Training Program (2013) (2)
- Agent-Based Simulation of General Contractor–Subcontractor Interactions in a Multiproject Environment (2021) (2)
- Reducing construction and demolition waste through lean production: Observations from Tel-Aviv, Israel (2021) (2)
- Integrated virtual reality and discrete event simulation methods for production system research in construction (2013) (2)
- 'WORKMANAGER' - AN ONLINE INTERFACE FOR LEAN FLOW CONTROL IN APARTMENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTION (2006) (1)
- DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS TO ANALYZE AND IMPROVE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION FLOW IN THE BIM DESIGN PROCESS. (2011) (1)
- Evaluating Multiskilling in Residential Construction Projects Using Regional Industry Simulation (2019) (1)
- Discussion of “Metrics That Matter: Core Predictive and Diagnostic Metrics for Improved Project Controls and Analytics” by Resulali Emre Orgut, Jin Zhu, Mostafa Batouli, Ali Mostafavi, and Edward J. Jaselskis (2020) (1)
- Construction Operation Assessment and Correction Using Laser Scanning and Projection Feedback (2020) (1)
- TOWARDS MULTI-PROJECT SIMULATION OF A LEAN PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR CUSTOMIZED APARTMENT BUILDINGS (2018) (1)
- Production Control in Earthworks: Concepts and Metrics (2021) (1)
- Distinguishing Object Category Properties and Property Ranges in the IFC Standard for Visual Pattern Recognition (2012) (1)
- SEMANTIC EXCHANGE MODULES : A NEW METHOD FOR SPECIFYING AND IMPLEMENTING MODEL VIEWS (2011) (1)
- Optimized Installation Flow – A Strategy for Substantial Cycle Time Reduction (2020) (1)
- Partial Remuneration for Capacity to Stabilize Subcontractor Resource Allocations (2008) (1)
- A Comprehensive Data Schema for Digital Twin Construction (2022) (1)
- A Practice-Based Conceptual Model on Building Information Modelling (BIM) Benefits Realisation (2020) (1)
- CBIM: object-level cloud collaboration platform for supporting across-domain asynchronous design (2023) (1)
- Construction players perceptions about the influence of design on accident prevention at construction sites in Brazil (2014) (0)
- The Last Planner® System (2017) (0)
- Application of the Domain Theory to Warehouse Concept Development: A Case Study (2016) (0)
- Reality Capturing and Modeling with Visual and Spatial Sensing (2009) (0)
- Production planning and control in construction (2017) (0)
- Raising planning resolution (2017) (0)
- Pulling it all together (2017) (0)
- Reflective practice and practical research (2017) (0)
- Lean-Driven Passenger Experience Design (2018) (0)
- The Lease Crutcher Lewis way (2017) (0)
- Revised and submitted 11 / 2009 to the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 2009 © (2017) (0)
- ECONOMIC RISK EVALUATION FOR RESIDENTIAL HOUSING PROJECTS (2002) (0)
- Virtual design and construction (2017) (0)
- Tidhar on the Park, Yavne : Project profile (2017) (0)
- Tidhar on the Park, Rosh Ha’ayin : Project profile (2017) (0)
- CU Fiat project : Project profile (2017) (0)
- Adding intelligence to project model objects to integrate AEC information (2001) (0)
- Continuous improvement and respect for people (2017) (0)
- How did they do it? (2010) (0)
- The Fira way (2017) (0)
- BIM in the big room (2017) (0)
- Role of Lean and VDC in Reducing Physical and Operational Waste and Environmental Impact (2022) (0)
- The waste of non-value-adding work (2017) (0)
- BIM for Subcontractors and Fabricators (2008) (0)
- Learning to see (2017) (0)
- Introduction : Growing the Margin (2017) (0)
- The Dawn Tower : Project profile (2017) (0)
- Monitoring Lifting Equipment for Automated Progress Control: A Feasibility Study (2003) (0)
- BIM for Fabricators (2008) (0)
- LIFE Reactor Study Fiscal Year 2013 Contract Report (2013) (0)
- What flows in construction (2017) (0)
- Festschrift honouring Dr. Glenn Ballard (2022) (0)
- CBIM: A Graph-based Approach to Enhance Interoperability Using Semantic Enrichment (2023) (0)
- The Role of Simulation in Digital Twin Construction (2022) (0)
- Integrating BIM and Multiple Construction Monitoring Technologies for Acquisition of Project Status Information (2023) (0)
- Situational Awareness in Construction Using a Serious Game (2023) (0)
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and construction tech integration for construction operations: state of the art (2021) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
What Schools Are Affiliated With Rafael Sacks?
Rafael Sacks is affiliated with the following schools: