Alex Albert

About

Alex Albert is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University and serves as the Director of the North Carolina Construction Safety Laboratory (CSL). His research is focused on addressing safety challenges experienced in the construction industry. Through his leadership at CSL, he contributes to advancing knowledge and practices that improve construction safety management and worker protection. His work supports the development of safer construction environments by investigating factors that impact safety performance and by promoting best practices within the industry.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Economics
• Psychology
• Knowledge management
• Nursing
• Surgery

Selected publications

• Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the United States Construction Industry

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2021 · 389 citations

  The COVID-19 pandemic has been the largest global health crisis in decades. Apart from the unprecedented number of deaths and hospitalizations, the pandemic has resulted in economic slowdowns, widespread business disruptions, and significant hardships. This study focused on investigating the early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. construction industry since the declaration of the national emergency on 13 March 2020. The study objectives were achieved through 34 telephone interviews w…

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• Development of virtual reality and stereo-panoramic environments for construction safety training

  Engineering Construction & Architectural Management · 2020 · 154 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Purpose Workers and construction professionals are generally not proficient in recognizing and managing safety hazards. Although valuable, traditional training experiences have not sufficiently addressed the issue of poor hazard recognition and management in construction. Since hazard recognition and management are cognitive skills that depend on attention, visual examination and decision-making, performance assessment and feedback in an environment that is realistic and representative of actual…

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• Leveraging ChatGPT to Aid Construction Hazard Recognition and Support Safety Education and Training

  Sustainability · 2023 · 132 citations

  Proper hazard recognition is fundamental to effective safety management in construction workplaces. Nevertheless, poor hazard recognition levels are a widespread and persistent problem in the construction industry. For example, recent investigations have demonstrated that a significant number of workplace hazards often remain unrecognized in construction workplaces. These unrecognized workplace hazards often remain unmanaged and can potentially translate into devastating and unexpected safety in…

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• ChatGPT as an educational resource for civil engineering students

  Computer Applications in Engineering Education · 2024-04-22 · 32 citations

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  Abstract The purpose of the investigation was to evaluate the utility of ChatGPT, a state‐of‐the‐art language model developed by Open AI, in the context of civil engineering education. To achieve this objective, 44 civil engineering students from a large state university in the United States were recruited and asked to respond to three questions pertaining to Construction Surveying and Geomatics . The students were then introduced to ChatGPT and provided with guidelines on how the platform could…

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• Severe injuries among construction workers: Insights from OSHA’s new severe injury reporting program

  Safety Science · 2023 · 29 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• S M Jamil Uddin

  Florida Gulf Coast University

  84 shared

• Abdullah Alsharef

  King Saud University

  81 shared

• Anto Ovid

  North Carolina State University

  54 shared

• Gemma Castaño‐Vinyals

  Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública

  48 shared

• Siddharth Bhandari

  University of Nebraska–Lincoln

  29 shared

• Chelsea E. Langer

  New Mexico Department of Health

  27 shared

• Elisabeth Cardis

  Barcelona Institute for Global Health

  27 shared

• Brigitte Lacour

  Inserm

  24 shared

Labs

• North Carolina Construction Safety LaboratoryPI

  Addressing safety challenges experienced in the construction industry

Education

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering

  University of XYZ

  2005

• M.S., Environmental Engineering

  University of ABC

  2002

• B.S., Civil Engineering

  XYZ State University

  1999

Awards & honors

• 2017 Best Paper Award, Journal of Construction Engineering a…
• 2016 Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Construction and Engin…
• 2015 Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Construction and Engin…
• 2015 New Scholar, Construction Industry Institute (CII)
• 2014 Best Paper (Second), Construction Research Congress, (C…

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