Pradhananga, Nipesh
- Associate Professor, Moss Department of Construction Management , College of Engineering and Computing

Overview
overview
- Dr. Nipesh Pradhananga is the Coordinator of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Training Institute’s host site at FIU. He is a registered Professional Engineer (PE) and an OSHA Outreach Trainer. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering and MS in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and MS in Construction Management from University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is the Director of Moss & Associates Built Environment Informatics Lab at FIU. He works on research and training programs that focus on leveraging emerging technologies to enable safe construction and well-being of the occupants, and post-disaster study of infrastructure and human resilience, funded by National Science Foundation and Department of Labor.
research interests
- Construction Technology, Construction Safety and Health, Construction Simulation, Information Modeling, Computational Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Virtual Reality
Scholarly & Creative Works
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2021Identification and Analysis of Factors Affecting the Future of Bridge Design, Construction, and OperationFull Text via DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000943 Web of Science: 000683844300008
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2021Sensor-based computational approach to preventing back injuries in construction workersFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103920 Web of Science: 000696590500001
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2021Mapping Datafication in Construction-Worker Safety Research to Minimize Injury-Related DisputesFull Text via DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)LA.1943-4170.0000464 Web of Science: 000672214900002
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2020Estimation of 3D Sphericity by Volume Measurement - Application to Coarse AggregatesFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.trgeo.2020.100344 Web of Science: 000531598100003
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2017Assessment of Infrastructure Resilience in the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, EarthquakeFull Text via DOI: 10.1193/121116EQS231M Web of Science: 000440156400010
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2016Hazardous Proximity Zone Design for Heavy Construction Excavation EquipmentFull Text via DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001108 Web of Science: 000378863000010
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2014Correlating the quantity and bid cost of unit price items for public road projectsFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12205-014-0445-y Web of Science: 000341488600003
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2022Analyzing Critical Impacting Factors on the Future of Bridges to Support Bridge Planning. 406-415.Web of Science: 000776637300042
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2021Innovation in Construction Techniques on Earth versus Space: Similarities and Differences. 1220-1230.Web of Science: 000692156300112
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2020Integrating Social Media Platforms in Construction Education to Increase Student Engagement. 53-42.Full Text via DOI: 10.29007/t4xb
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2016Eye-tracking technology for construction safety: A feasibility study. 282-290.Full Text via DOI: 10.22260/isarc2016/0035
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2015Real-time location data for automated learning curve analysis of linear repetitive construction activities. 107-114.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784479247.014
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2014An information fusion approach for filtering GNSS data sets collected during construction operations. 297-310.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2014.07.001
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2014Automatic Cave-in Safety Risk Identification in Construction Excavation. 130-139.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.014
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2014Development of a Cell-based Simulation Model for Earthmoving Operation using Real-time Location Data. 189-198.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.020
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2014Passive RFID and BIM for Real-time Visualization and Location Tracking. 169-178.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.018
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2014Automatic cave-in safety risk identification in construction excavation. 130-139.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.0014
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2014Automatic fall risk identification using point cloud data in construction excavation. 981-988.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413616.122
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2014Congestion analysis for construction site layout planning using real-time data and cell-based simulation model. 681-688.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413616.085
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2014Development of a cell-based simulation model for earthmoving operation using real-time location data. 189-198.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.0020
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2014Passive RFID and BIM for real-time visualization and location tracking. 169-178.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.0018
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2013Automated evaluation of proximity hazards caused by workers interacting with equipment. 1037-1045.Full Text via DOI: 10.22260/isarc2013/0114
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2012Spatio-temporal safety analysis of construction site operations using GPS data. 787-796.Full Text via DOI: 10.1061/9780784412329.080
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2012Real-time resource location tracking in Building Information Models (BIM). 41-48.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32609-7_5
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
Research
principal investigator on
- Workplace Safety training on infectious diseases, including COVID awarded by U.S. Department of Labor 2021 - 2023
- Susan Harwood Grant - Workplace Safety Training on Fall Protection awarded by U.S. Department of Labor 2021 - 2022
- I-Corps: Safety Frontier for Labor-Intensive Repetitive Tasks awarded by National Science Foundation 2021 - 2022
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) awarded by U.S. Department of Labor 2020 - 2021
- 2019 Susan Harwood Training Program-Excavation and Trenching Hazards awarded by U.S. Department of Labor 2019 - 2020
- Electrical Hazards in Construction awarded by U.S. Department of Labor 2018 - 2019
co-principal investigator on
- Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training Grant in Construction awarded by U.S. Department of Labor 2017 - 2018
- Assessment of Cascading Failures and Collective Recovery of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure in Catastrophic Disasters: A Study of 2015 Nepal's Earthquake awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2016
Contact
full name
- Nipesh Pradhananga
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9433-9392 (confirmed)
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