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Ashuri Receives Prestigious Grant
Atlanta (August 4, 2009) — Assistant Professor Baabak Ashuri was an awarded a grant from the RICS Education Trust for a research project on forecasting construction materials costs. The project was selected from a large number of proposals received by the Trust, the research and education arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a global organization for built environment professionals.
RICS Education Trust provided Dr. Ashuri with an $8,000 grant to fund the project, “A Time Series Model for Forecasting Construction Cost Index”. Results from the research were recently presented at the 2009 Construction Industry Institute Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada July 28-30.
Dr. Baabak Ashuri joined the BC Program as an Assistant Professor from the Georgia Tech Tennenbaum Institute in Fall 2008. He has extensive knowledge of project management, construction management systems, structural and workspace design and retail investment analysis.
RICS set up the RICS Education Trust in 1955 as a registered charity; its objectives are to promote and advance, by the provision of grants, scholarships, awards, prizes or otherwise, education and research into matters relating to the theory and practice of surveying in any of its branches. RICS operates out of 146 countries and is supported by an extensive network of regional offices located in every continent around the world; both RICS and the RICS Education Trust are headquartered in London.
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