Name, Academic Rank Rafael Sacks, Senior Lecturer
Office Rabin Bldg.,   Room 840
Tel., Fax., E-mail Tel: +972-4-8293190   Fax: +972-4-8293323   E-mail: cvsacks@techunix.technion.ac.il
Homepage: http://techunix.technion.ac.il/~cvsacks
Teaching Activities Introduction to Computing in Construction Management
Homepage: http://techunix.technion.ac.il/~intro2
Construction Management
Homepage: http://const-vis.technion.ac.il/cm/cm.htm
Research Interest  Information Technologies in Construction Management and Structural Design
Building Information Modeling (3D parametric modeling, automated building layout and detailing systems)
Lean Construction
Year awarded doctorate 1998
Institution Technion
Field of doctorate Building Project Models and Design Automation
Thesis title Computer Integrated Construction: Project Data Model Representation and Use
Books published  
Recent journal publications (From January 2000)
  1. Sacks, R., Warszawski, A., and Kirsch, U., (2000),‘Structural Design in an Automated Building System’, Automation in Construction, Elsevier Science B.V., Vol. 10 No. 1 pp. 181-197.
  2. Sacks, R., (2002), ‘Integrated AEC Information Services using Object Methods and a Central Project Model’, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Blackwell Publishers, Boston USA & Oxford UK, Vol. 17 No.6 pp. 449–456.
  3. Sacks, R., Navon, R., and Goldschmidt, E., (2003), ‘Building Project Model Support for Automated Labor Monitoring’, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol.17 No.1 pp. 19-27.
  4. Sacks, R., Eastman, C.M., and Lee, G., (2003) ‘Process Improvements in Precast Concrete Construction Using Top-Down Parametric 3-D Computer-Modeling’, Journal of the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, Vol. 48 No. 3 pp. 46-55.
  5. Eastman, C.M., Sacks, R., and Lee, G., (2003), ‘Development and Implementation of Advanced IT in the North American Precast Concrete Industry’, ITCON - International Journal of Construction Information Technology, Vol. 8, pp. 247-262.
  6. Sacks, R., Eastman, C.M., and Lee, G., (2003), ‘Parametric 3D Modeling in Building Construction with Examples from Precast Concrete’, Automation in Construction, Elsevier Science B.V., (in press).
  7. Sacks, R., Eastman, C.M., and Lee, G., (2003) ‘Process Model Perspectives on Management and Engineering Procedures in the North American Precast/Prestressed Concrete Industry’, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (in press).
  8. Warszawski, A., and Sacks, R., (2003), ‘A Practical Multi-Factor Approach to Evaluating the Risk of Investment in Engineering Projects’, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, (in press).
  9. Sacks, R., (2004), ‘Evaluation of the economic impact of computer-integration in precast concrete construction’, submitted August 2003 to ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, (in press).
Present positions at Technion
&present public  positions		 Library committee at the Department of Civil Engineering