Associate Professor
Head of Construction Management Program
- B.Sc. (Cum Laude) - 1981-1985 – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology –Faculty of Civil Engineering
- M.Sc. C.E. - 1985-1987 - Technion – Faculty of Civil Engineering
- Name of advisor: Dr. Alexander Laufer
- Title of thesis: "Factors Affecting the Span of
- Control of the Construction Foreman"
- D.Sc. 1989-1993 - Technion – Faculty of Civil Engineering
- Name of advisors: Prof. Abraham Warszawski
- and Dr. Yehiel Rosenfeld
- Title of thesis: "An Intelligent System for Mapping
- and Planning of Building Tasks by the Interior
- Finishing Robot"
- Health Care Facilities Management
- Performance-Based Maintenance
- Extreme Event Engineering and Management
- Construction Safety
- "Improving the Performance and Maintenance of Clinics using Life Cycle Costs Principles"
- The investment in the development of the existing portfolio of facilities, as well as in their maintenance and operation, constitutes 3-4% of the annual budgets of the various sick funds in Israel. The facilities and the maintenance thereof, have significant implications for the quality of service and the asset efficiency of the medical organizations. The hypotheses of the study were: (a) The maintenance and performance of clinics can be systematically monitored with a high degree of accuracy and reliability using Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), based on performance and Life Cycle Costs (LCC) principles; and (b) Implementation by clinics of the above-mentioned principles can contribute to savings in maintenance expenditures and to improved performance. Pursuant to the above hypotheses, the following research objectives were formulated: To develop KPI's for the maintenance, performance, and resource allocation for clinics based on a database of LCC data; to implement the criteria and indicators developed in the execution of a preventive and repair maintenance policy for clinics; and to validate the research hypotheses by measuring the maintenance and performance of clinics following the implementation of the method. The research method uses an LCC analysis of clinics, KPI's developed for field survey of clinics, and an analysis of KPI's. The field survey encompasses 30 sick fund clinics in Israel. The KPI's developed in this research include: Building Performance Indicator (BPI) (adapted for clinics), Annual Maintenance Expenditure (AME), Occupancy Coefficient (OC), and Age Coefficient (ACy). Implementation of the proposed model in a two year study yielded improvement of 30% in the maintenance efficiency of clinics, as well as improved performance