James T. O’Connor, Ph.D.
Professor - C. T. Wells Professor in Project Management

Office: ECJ 5.430
Phone: (512) 471-4645
Fax: (512) 471-3191
Email: jtoconnor@mail.utexas.edu
UT Mail: C1752

Mailing Address:
The University of Texas at Austin
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department-ARE/CEPM
1 University Station C1752
Austin, TX 78712-0273

Area(s) of Expertise:

Architectural Engineering

Construction Engineering Project Management

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1983
M.S., Illinois (Urbana), 1980
B.S., Oklahoma State, 1979

Technical Interests:
Project constructability; advanced construction technologies; pre-construction management systems; project decision/risk analysis, and systems for work process integration.

 

Selected Publications:

O’Connor, J.T., Planning for Startup, Implementation Resource 121-2, Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX, Oct. 1997 (150 pp.)

O’Connor, James T. and Dodd, Steven C., “Achieving Integration on Capital Projects with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems,” Journal on Automation in Construction, Vol. 9, No. 5-6, Elsevier Science B.V., September 2000, pp. 515-524

O’Connor, James T., and Yang, Li-Ren, “Project Performance vs. Use of Technologies at the Work Function Level,” International Symposium for Automation in Construction, September 2002, Washington, D.C.

Yuksel, Ibrahim T., and O’Connor, James T., Schedule Compression of an Urban Highway Project Using the Linear Scheduling Method, Center for Transportation Research, Austin, TX, September 2000

O’Connor, James T., and Hubers, Mark J., Systems Integration Standards Development Efforts for Facilities Engineering and Construction, Report to the Center for Construction Industry Studies, Report No. 24, University of Texas at Austin, April 2002