A Case for Incorporating Pre-construction Cost Estimating in Construction Engineering and Management Programs

Douglas D. Gransberg is the Donald and Sharon Greenwood Professor of Construction Engineering at Iowa State University. He received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Oregon State University and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma and Texas Tech University before joining ISU in 2011. His research spans the full life cycle of engineering, construction and maintenance, from the procurement of new projects using alternative project delivery methods such as Construction Manager/General Contractor and Design-Build to the preservation and maintenance of pavements and bridges. His research has received awards from the Transportation Research Board, several US state departments of transportation and the New Zealand Transit Agency. He is also a registered Professional Engineer in Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon, a Certified Cost Engineer, a Designated Design-Build Professional and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the UK. Before moving to academia in 1994, he served for over twenty years in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel.