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

Office: ECJ 5.202A
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
301 E. Dean Keeton St. Stop C1752
Austin, TX 78712-1094

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:

Shrestha, Pramen P.., Migliaccio, Giovanni C., O’Connor, James T., and Gibson, G. Edward, "Benchmarking of Large Design-Build Highway Projects: One-to-One Comparison and Comparison with Design-Bid-Build Projects," Transportation Research Record: Crosscutting Techniques for Planning and Analysis, Issue No. 1994, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., November 2007, pp. 9-16.

Chou, J.-S., and O’Connor, J.T., "Internet-based Preliminary Highway Construction Cost Estimating Database," Automation in Construction, Elsevier, B.V., Vol. 17, No. 1, November 2007, pp. 65-74.

Migliaccio, G.C., Gibson, G.E., and O’Connor, J.T., "Procurement of Design-Build Services: Two-Phase Selection for Highway Projects," Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 25, No. 1, Jan. 2009, pp. 29-39.

Chou, C-C., Caldas, C.H., O’Connor, J.T., Sroka, A.W., Goldman, G.K., "Identification of Decision Drivers for the Strategy of Incorporating Utility Relocations into Highway Construction Contracts," Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, Vol. 135, No. 9, Sept. 2009, pp. 812-818.

O’Connor, J.T., Damiano, V.P., Kulkarni, R., and Clark, P., "Executing a Standard Plant Design using the 4X Model," Hydrocarbon Processing, Vol. 88, No. 12, Dec. 2009, pp. 47-54.