Office: 146 Stocker

Phone: (740) 593-1468

Email: dcastro@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu

Dr. Castro received his Civil Engineering degree from Universidad de Los Andes in 1994, where he worked for a year as a research assistant. From 1995 to 1998, he worked as an engineer for Drummond Limited in La Loma, Colombia, participating in the design and construction of earth dams, diversion ditches, ponds, roads, mine loadout, airstrip and living quarters, and being the supervisor of drilling, reclamation and surveying crews. He went to the University of Reading in the UK to complete his Master of Science in Construction Management in 1999, while conducting research in the area of e-Commerce and training simulators for construction organizations in the Advanced Construction Technology Centre. The following year, Dr. Castro went to Purdue University where he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Civil Engineering in August 2003. Dr. Castro is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Construction Research Council and the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction.

Dr. Castro's research interests lie in the area of information technology in application to construction processes and engineering management systems. He is interested in the development and implementation of advanced web-based technologies for the improvement of design, estimation, fabrication and assembly practices. Currently, Dr. Castro is investigating the implementation of a B2B e-Work system for expediting the approval process of construction materials. Also, he is conducting research in the area of information technology assessment and optimization for infrastructure systems management.

Castro-Lacouture, D. and Skibniewski, M. (2002): "Implementation of e-Work Models for the Automation of Construction Materials Management Systems", accepted for publication by Journal of Production Planning and Control

Li, H., Cao, J., Castro-Lacouture, D., and Skibniewski, M. (2003): "A Framework for Developing a Unified B2B e-Trading Construction Marketplace", Journal of Automation in Construction, Vol. 12(2), 2003, pp. 201-211

Castro-Lacouture, D. and Skibniewski, M. (2002): "e-Work: The Next Iteration in Construction Materials Management Systems", Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, September, pp. 65-72

Castro-Lacouture, D. and Skibniewski, M. (2002): "Development of an e-Business Solution for the Integration of Steel Reinforcement Supply Chain in Construction Projects", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, CITC2002, Miami, Florida, USA, April, pp. 197-204

CE 316 Construction Engineering and Management

CE 490 Construction Estimating

CE 590 Project Planning and Control