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Dr. Andrew McCoy
Department of Building Construction, Virginia Tech Bishop-Favrao Hall, 1345 Perry St, Blacksburg, VA 24061

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Preprint
Published: 26 July 2021
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Research on green-certified buildings has often been focused on the benefits of green standards, such as energy efficiency, smart growth, resource conservation, and health protection. Recent studies suggest the adoption of a reductionist sustainability planning language can turn green-certified houses into luxury goods, attracting White, prime-age, college-educated households with some pro-environmental attitudes who replace existing long-term, lower-income residents in core urban areas. While many factors may work together in driving neighborhood change and gentrification in cities, the question this study aims to address is to what extent the supply of green-certified units can affect neighborhood change and gentrification? We use Central Virginia’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS) housing market transactions data and the U.S. Census Bureau’s socioeconomic data to present the differential effect of new construction of market-rate, green-certified units in a natural experiment using difference-in-differences estimates. We find that neighborhoods that include new, green-certified units have experienced a statistically significant increase in population, supporting new construction and positively affecting house prices. We also detect some negative effects on minorities and minority owners, but these effects have not yet reached statistical significance. This study finds strong evidence of green housing providing the conditions that make areas ripe for gentrification, but more studies should follow up to better measure and generalize this finding.

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Armin Yeganeh; Andrew McCoy; Philip Agee; Todd Schenk; Steve Hankey. Green Housing or Green Gentrification? 2021, 1 .

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Armin Yeganeh, Andrew McCoy, Philip Agee, Todd Schenk, Steve Hankey. Green Housing or Green Gentrification? . 2021; ():1.

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Armin Yeganeh; Andrew McCoy; Philip Agee; Todd Schenk; Steve Hankey. 2021. "Green Housing or Green Gentrification?" , no. : 1.

Research article
Published: 01 October 2020 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2020, 16, 231 -232.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2020; 16 (4):231-232.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2020. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 16, no. 4: 231-232.

Conference paper
Published: 04 September 2020 in 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
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The Influence of Internship Participation on Construction Industry Hiring Professionals When Selecting New Hires and Determining Starting Salaries for Construction Engineering GraduatesThe construction industry has experienced great change over the past twenty years due toeconomic conditions, the incorporation of innovative project delivery methods and an increaseduse of technology throughout the development of projects. In response to these changes,employers are beginning to place more emphasis on what recent graduates have to offer theircompanies including hands on experience within the construction industry.Construction engineering education curriculums are designed to help students become ready tofill open positions in the industry. Many of these curriculums have little flexibility for coursesthat extend beyond the existing paradigm of the traditional classroom. Students need to have anopportunity to apply classroom content in real world settings. Internship participation offersstudents an alternative way to learn as they construct their own knowledge by applyingclassroom content in real world applications. Some construction engineering academic programsrequire participation in an internship for program completion. Other construction engineeringacademic programs do not make participation in an internship mandatory and instead offer it asan optional part of the student experience.This paper discusses findings from data collected in a survey administered to constructionindustry hiring professionals, including human resource personnel, company executives, projectmanagers who field resumes at job fairs, and superintendents involved in the recruitment of newhires. This survey was created to provide a clear understanding of how internship participation isperceived within the industry, and how industry characterizes the factors that lead to a student’ssuccess. The survey collected both qualitative and quantitative data allowing participants toprovide open responses as well as selection from multiple choice listings. The responsesprovided on this survey assisted with understanding the value industry places on the studentinternship experience as well as to determine the level of participation they desire within thatrelationship.

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Kathleen M. Short; Annie R. Pearce; Christine Marie Fiori; Tanyel Bulbul; Andrew McCoy. The Influence of Internship Participation on Construction Industry Hiring Professionals When Selecting New Hires and Determining Starting Salaries for Construction Engineering Graduates. 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings 2020, 24.1225.1 -24.1225.11.

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Kathleen M. Short, Annie R. Pearce, Christine Marie Fiori, Tanyel Bulbul, Andrew McCoy. The Influence of Internship Participation on Construction Industry Hiring Professionals When Selecting New Hires and Determining Starting Salaries for Construction Engineering Graduates. 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings. 2020; ():24.1225.1-24.1225.11.

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Kathleen M. Short; Annie R. Pearce; Christine Marie Fiori; Tanyel Bulbul; Andrew McCoy. 2020. "The Influence of Internship Participation on Construction Industry Hiring Professionals When Selecting New Hires and Determining Starting Salaries for Construction Engineering Graduates." 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings , no. : 24.1225.1-24.1225.11.

Original articles
Published: 25 August 2020 in Building Research & Information
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Smart buildings are complex systems, yet architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals often perform their work without considering the human factors of building occupants. Traditionally, the AEC industry has employed a linear design and delivery approach. As buildings become smarter, the AEC industry must adapt. To maximize human well-being and the operational performance of smart buildings, an iterative, human-centred approach must be employed. The omission of human factors in the design and delivery of smart building systems risks misalignment between occupant-user needs and the AEC industry’s perception of occupant-user needs. This research proposes a human-centred approach to smart housing. The study employed a multi-phase, mixed-methods research design. Data were collected from 309 high performance housing units in the United States. Longitudinal energy use data, occupant surveys, and semi-structured interviews are the primary data inputs. Affinity diagramming was leveraged to categorize the qualitative data. The output of the affinity diagramming analysis and energy analysis led to the development of data-driven Personas that communicate smart housing user needs. While these data were gathered in the United States, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers can leverage the human-centred approach presented in this paper toward the design of other human-centred buildings and infrastructure.

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Philip Agee; Xinghua Gao; Frederick Paige; Andrew McCoy; Brian Kleiner. A human-centred approach to smart housing. Building Research & Information 2020, 49, 84 -99.

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Philip Agee, Xinghua Gao, Frederick Paige, Andrew McCoy, Brian Kleiner. A human-centred approach to smart housing. Building Research & Information. 2020; 49 (1):84-99.

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Philip Agee; Xinghua Gao; Frederick Paige; Andrew McCoy; Brian Kleiner. 2020. "A human-centred approach to smart housing." Building Research & Information 49, no. 1: 84-99.

Preprint
Published: 25 July 2020
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The residential sector in the United States is in need of comprehensive policy-making reforms that concurrently address housing affordability and environmental sustainability. This study investigates the feasibility of state-wide zero-energy affordable housing by analyzing historical data on climate, energy use, and solar system costs in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The hypothesis examined is that the net present cost of implementation of rooftop residential solar systems to achieve zero-energy Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) buildings is lower than the discounted present cost of energy of otherwise identical conventional buildings that run without renewable energy generation systems. The authors propose a generalizable framework for analyzing the feasibility of achieving region- or state-wide zero-energy LIHTC developments. To validate the framework, the authors employ a longitudinal sample of monthly energy use data from 2013-2016 obtained from 310 residential units of 15 LIHTC developments across the state. Based on statistical regression analysis, energy simulation, and simulation-based risk analysis, the authors find that the net present value of zero-energy LIHTC investments can be positive with a low risk. The investment value varies often depending on the zero-energy building definition, weather characteristics, retail price of electricity, and incentive rate. This study can help housing policymakers and industry professionals analyze and benchmark the feasibility of innovative zero-energy housing policies and projects.

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh; Philip R. Agee; Xinghua Gao; Andrew P. McCoy. Feasibility of Zero Energy Multi-Family Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments. 2020, 1 .

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh, Philip R. Agee, Xinghua Gao, Andrew P. McCoy. Feasibility of Zero Energy Multi-Family Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments. . 2020; ():1.

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh; Philip R. Agee; Xinghua Gao; Andrew P. McCoy. 2020. "Feasibility of Zero Energy Multi-Family Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Developments." , no. : 1.

Editorial
Published: 02 July 2020 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2020, 16, 149 -150.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2020; 16 (3):149-150.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2020. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 16, no. 3: 149-150.

Editorial
Published: 02 January 2020 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2020, 16, 1 -2.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2020; 16 (1):1-2.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2020. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 16, no. 1: 1-2.

Journal article
Published: 08 November 2019 in Sustainability
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In the year 2017, about 89% of the total energy consumed in the US was produced using non-renewable energy sources, and about 43% of tenant households were cost burdened. Local governments are in a unique position to facilitate green affordable housing, that could reduce cost burdens, environmental degradation, and environmental injustice. Nonetheless, limited studies have made progress on the costs and benefits of green affordable housing, to guide decision-making, particularly in small communities. This study investigates density bonus options for green affordable housing by analyzing construction costs, transaction prices, and spillover effects of green certifications and affordable housing units. The authors employ pooled cross-sectional construction cost and price data from 422 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) projects and 11,016 Multiple Listing Service (MLS) transactions in Virginia. Using hedonic regression analyses controlling for mediating factors, the study finds that the new construction of market-rate green certified houses is associated with small upfront costs, but large and statistically significant price premiums. In addition, the construction of market-rate green certified houses has large and statistically significant spillover effects on existing non-certified houses. Existing non-certified affordable housing units show small and often insignificant negative price impacts on the transaction prices of surrounding properties. The study concludes that the magnitude of social benefits associated with green building justifies the local provision of voluntary programs for green affordable housing, where housing is expensive relative to its basic cost of production.

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh; Andrew Patton McCoy; Steve Hankey. Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6269 .

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh, Andrew Patton McCoy, Steve Hankey. Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (22):6269.

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh; Andrew Patton McCoy; Steve Hankey. 2019. "Green Affordable Housing: Cost-Benefit Analysis for Zoning Incentives." Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6269.

Preprint
Published: 15 October 2019
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In the year 2017, about 89 percent of the total energy consumed in the US was produced using non-renewable energy sources, and about 43 percent of tenant households were cost-burdened. Local governments are in a unique position to facilitate green affordable housing that could reduce cost burdens, environmental degradation, and environmental injustice. Nonetheless, limited studies have made progress on costs and benefits of green affordable housing to guide decision-making, particularly in small communities. This study investigates density bonus options for green affordable housing by analyzing construction costs, sale prices, and spillover effects for green certifications and affordable housing units. The authors employ construction costs and sale data from 422 Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) projects and 11,418 Multiple Listing Service (MLS) transactions in Virginia. Using hedonic regression analyses controlling for mediating factors, we find that the new construction of market-rate green certified houses is associated with small upfront costs but large and statistically significant price premiums. The construction of market-rate green certified houses has large and statistically significant spillover effects on existing non-certified houses. Existing non-certified affordable housing units show small and statistically insignificant negative price impacts on transactions of surrounding properties. The magnitude of social benefits associated with green building justifies the local provision of voluntary programs for green affordable housing where housing is expensive relative to its basic costs of production to promote sustainable development.

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh; Andrew Patton McCoy; Steve Hankey. Green Affordable Housing: Implications of Costs and Benefits for Municipal Incentives. 2019, 1 .

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh, Andrew Patton McCoy, Steve Hankey. Green Affordable Housing: Implications of Costs and Benefits for Municipal Incentives. . 2019; ():1.

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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh; Andrew Patton McCoy; Steve Hankey. 2019. "Green Affordable Housing: Implications of Costs and Benefits for Municipal Incentives." , no. : 1.

Editorial
Published: 02 October 2019 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2019, 15, 239 -240.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2019; 15 (4):239-240.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2019. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 15, no. 4: 239-240.

Editorial
Published: 03 April 2019 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2019, 15, 81 -82.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2019; 15 (2):81-82.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2019. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 15, no. 2: 81-82.

Journal article
Published: 16 November 2018 in Journal of Building Engineering
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With the growing concern of climate change and more frequent and severe natural disaster events affecting the built environment, enhancing the performance and resilience of buildings has become increasingly vital. Stakeholders are seeking guidance towards improving both the individual performance of buildings and systems as well as their overall disaster resilience. Thus, they require tools that can comparatively evaluate technologies across multiple standards and qualities of construction in a consistent way. Such tools would be used as a means to make effective decisions based upon different performance metrics as they apply to a particular situation or context. However, neither common, succinct definitions nor metrics for evaluating both resilience and building performance across various construction standards exists, which makes conducting such assessments a considerably difficult task. Evaluating and comparing the performance and resilience levels of buildings and their systems in response to various natural disaster risks necessitates metrics that distinguish the contributing attributes for each aspect of performance and resilience. Consequently, such metrics then allow for benchmarking and comparisons between buildings and systems, and permit the quantification of potential improvements, or lack thereof, when implementing various building technologies in an effort to simultaneously increase performance and resilience. This paper addressed this need by demonstrating that attributes and corresponding metrics of disaster resilience for buildings can be consistently quantified by a function of Functionality and Time and subsequently used for disaster resilience assessments. A thematic analysis of a sample of relevant texts was conducted to validate the hypothesis theorized for measuring resilience.

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Oluwateniola Ladipo; Georg Reichard; Andrew McCoy; Annie Pearce; Paul Knox; Madeleine Flint; Madleine Flint. Attributes and metrics for comparative quantification of disaster resilience across diverse performance mandates and standards of building. Journal of Building Engineering 2018, 21, 446 -454.

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Oluwateniola Ladipo, Georg Reichard, Andrew McCoy, Annie Pearce, Paul Knox, Madeleine Flint, Madleine Flint. Attributes and metrics for comparative quantification of disaster resilience across diverse performance mandates and standards of building. Journal of Building Engineering. 2018; 21 ():446-454.

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Oluwateniola Ladipo; Georg Reichard; Andrew McCoy; Annie Pearce; Paul Knox; Madeleine Flint; Madleine Flint. 2018. "Attributes and metrics for comparative quantification of disaster resilience across diverse performance mandates and standards of building." Journal of Building Engineering 21, no. : 446-454.

Journal article
Published: 15 May 2018 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2018, 15, 161 -162.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2018; 15 (3):161-162.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2018. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 15, no. 3: 161-162.

Editorials
Published: 02 October 2017 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2017, 13, 249 -250.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2017; 13 (4):249-250.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2017. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 13, no. 4: 249-250.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2017 in Safety Science
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Lance W. Saunders; Brian M. Kleiner; Andrew McCoy; Kimberly P. Ellis; Tonya Smith-Jackson; Christian Wernz. Developing an inter-organizational safety climate instrument for the construction industry. Safety Science 2017, 98, 17 -24.

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Lance W. Saunders, Brian M. Kleiner, Andrew McCoy, Kimberly P. Ellis, Tonya Smith-Jackson, Christian Wernz. Developing an inter-organizational safety climate instrument for the construction industry. Safety Science. 2017; 98 ():17-24.

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Lance W. Saunders; Brian M. Kleiner; Andrew McCoy; Kimberly P. Ellis; Tonya Smith-Jackson; Christian Wernz. 2017. "Developing an inter-organizational safety climate instrument for the construction industry." Safety Science 98, no. : 17-24.

Conference paper
Published: 13 June 2017 in Computing in Civil Engineering 2017
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Residential buildings account for more than 20 percent of total energy usage in the U.S. in the past decade. Reduction of household energy consumption has environmental and economic impacts. As the first step, building scientists and construction engineers have endeavored efforts to obtain an accurate energy use prediction; however, few have focused on the relationship between construction cost and energy use. This paper investigates the associations between detailed construction cost takeoffs and actual energy uses in multifamily green buildings. The researchers employ advanced machine learning analytics to model the correlations between construction cost and energy use data which were collected from multifamily residential units. Findings identify the cost divisions in the construction stage that significantly correlates the energy use in the operational stage. The model allows developers to predict the energy consumption based on the construction costs, and enables them to adjust the investment strategies to amplify the energy efficiency of green building technologies.

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Yunjeong Mo; Dong Zhao; Andrew McCoy; Jing Du; Philip Agee. Latent Relationship between Construction Cost and Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Green Buildings. Computing in Civil Engineering 2017 2017, 273 -280.

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Yunjeong Mo, Dong Zhao, Andrew McCoy, Jing Du, Philip Agee. Latent Relationship between Construction Cost and Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Green Buildings. Computing in Civil Engineering 2017. 2017; ():273-280.

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Yunjeong Mo; Dong Zhao; Andrew McCoy; Jing Du; Philip Agee. 2017. "Latent Relationship between Construction Cost and Energy Efficiency in Multifamily Green Buildings." Computing in Civil Engineering 2017 , no. : 273-280.

Journal article
Published: 06 June 2017 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2017, 15, 1 -2.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2017; 15 (1):1-2.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2017. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 15, no. 1: 1-2.

Journal article
Published: 08 May 2017 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2017, 14, 233 -234.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2017; 14 (4):233-234.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2017. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 14, no. 4: 233-234.

Editorial
Published: 08 May 2017 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2017, 14, 161 -162.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2017; 14 (3):161-162.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2017. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 14, no. 3: 161-162.

Editorials
Published: 03 April 2017 in International Journal of Construction Education and Research
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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research 2017, 13, 81 -82.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. Editorial. International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 2017; 13 (2):81-82.

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Andrew Patton McCoy. 2017. "Editorial." International Journal of Construction Education and Research 13, no. 2: 81-82.