Farzad Jalaei

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Farzad Jalaei is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Management Science and Operations Research and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Farzad Jalaei has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Building and Construction, 5 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 4 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Farzad Jalaei's work include BIM and Construction Integration (18 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (13 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (4 papers). Farzad Jalaei is often cited by papers focused on BIM and Construction Integration (18 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (13 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (4 papers). Farzad Jalaei collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Iran and United States. Farzad Jalaei's co-authors include Ahmad Jrade, Ebrahim Karan, Javier Irizarry, Afshin Khoshand, Milad Zoghi, Geoffrey Guest, Abdulwahed Fazeli, Mostafa Khanzadi, Jieying Zhang and Saeed Banihashemi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Farzad Jalaei

22 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Integrating BIM and GIS to improve the visual monitoring of construction supply chain management

2013 377 citations Javier Irizarry, Ebrahim Karan et al. Automation in Construction profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Farzad Jalaei Canada	14	1.3k	404	283	225	174	23	1.5k
António Aguiar Costa Portugal	17	1.0k 0.8×	339 0.8×	249 0.9×	178 0.8×	191 1.1×	37	1.3k
Yue Teng Hong Kong	15	1.1k 0.8×	412 1.0×	159 0.6×	92 0.4×	357 2.1×	25	1.4k
Ibrahim Motawa United Kingdom	16	721 0.6×	456 1.1×	187 0.7×	191 0.8×	52 0.3×	65	1.0k
Robin Drogemuller Australia	19	960 0.7×	312 0.8×	152 0.5×	147 0.7×	343 2.0×	110	1.3k
Ergo Pikas Estonia	16	1.0k 0.8×	376 0.9×	100 0.4×	149 0.7×	211 1.2×	46	1.4k
Lara Jaillon Hong Kong	12	2.0k 1.5×	945 2.3×	317 1.1×	73 0.3×	143 0.8×	16	2.2k
Esmatullah Noorzai Iran	22	906 0.7×	435 1.1×	158 0.6×	60 0.3×	266 1.5×	52	1.2k
Dayana Bastos Costa Brazil	17	460 0.4×	286 0.7×	168 0.6×	289 1.3×	151 0.9×	84	1.1k
Abdul Hannan Qureshi Malaysia	19	519 0.4×	307 0.8×	183 0.6×	153 0.7×	57 0.3×	59	1.0k
Agnieszka Leśniak Poland	18	546 0.4×	485 1.2×	244 0.9×	89 0.4×	76 0.4×	96	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Farzad Jalaei

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All Works

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Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Circularity in the Building Industry: A Review of Material Passports and Digital Twin Technologies. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 152(2). 1 indexed citations

Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2025). Towards Circular Construction: Material and Component Stock Assessment in Montréal’s Residential Buildings. Designs. 9(6). 129–129.

Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2025). Developing an openBIM Information Delivery Specifications Framework for Operational Carbon Impact Assessment of Building Projects. Sustainability. 17(2). 673–673. 3 indexed citations

Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2024). Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) for design of climate-resilient bridges – a comprehensive review and a case study. International Journal of Construction Management. 25(1). 99–114. 10 indexed citations

Darko, Amos, et al.. (2024). Automating building environmental assessment: A systematic review and future research directions. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 106. 107465–107465. 7 indexed citations

Jrade, Ahmad, et al.. (2023). Potential Integration of Bridge Information Modeling and Life Cycle Assessment/Life Cycle Costing Tools for Infrastructure Projects within Construction 4.0: A Review. Sustainability. 15(20). 15049–15049. 9 indexed citations

Adsetts, Jonathan R., Nafiseh Ebrahimi, Jieying Zhang, Farzad Jalaei, & James J. Noël. (2023). Steel Bridge-Coating Systems and Their Environmental Impacts: Current Practices and Future Trends. Coatings. 13(5). 850–850. 8 indexed citations

Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2022). A framework for specifying low-carbon construction materials in government procurement: A case study for concrete in a new building investment. Journal of Cleaner Production. 345. 131056–131056. 32 indexed citations

Jalaei, Farzad, Geoffrey Guest, Abhishek Gaur, & Jieying Zhang. (2020). Exploring the effects that a non-stationary climate and dynamic electricity grid mix has on whole building life cycle assessment: A multi-city comparison. Sustainable Cities and Society. 61. 102294–102294. 36 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2019). Integrating BIM and product manufacturer data using the semantic web technologies.. Journal of Information Technology in Construction. 24(22). 424–439. 13 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2019). An integrated BIM-LEED application to automate sustainable design assessment framework at the conceptual stage of building projects. Sustainable Cities and Society. 53. 101979–101979. 109 indexed citations

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Fazeli, Abdulwahed, Farzad Jalaei, Mostafa Khanzadi, & Saeed Banihashemi. (2019). BIM-integrated TOPSIS-Fuzzy framework to optimize selection of sustainable building components. International Journal of Construction Management. 22(7). 1240–1259. 50 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad, et al.. (2015). Integrating Decision Support System (DSS) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) to Optimize the Selection of Sustainable Building Components. Journal of Information Technology in Construction. 20(25). 399–420. 57 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad & Ahmad Jrade. (2015). Integrating building information modeling (BIM) and LEED system at the conceptual design stage of sustainable buildings. Sustainable Cities and Society. 18. 95–107. 192 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad & Ahmad Jrade. (2014). Integrating Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Energy Analysis Tools with Green Building Certification System to Conceptually Design Sustainable Buildings. Journal of Information Technology in Construction. 19(29). 494–519. 81 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad & Ahmad Jrade. (2014). An Automated BIM Model to Conceptually Design, Analyze, Simulate, and Assess Sustainable Building Projects. 2014. 1–21. 85 indexed citations

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Jrade, Ahmad & Farzad Jalaei. (2014). Using Building Information Modeling to Evaluate the Costs and Benefits of Adopting Sustainable Universal Houses in Canada. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3(4). 56–76. 2 indexed citations

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Jalaei, Farzad & Ahmad Jrade. (2014). Integrating BIM with Green Building Certification System, Energy Analysis, and Cost Estimating Tools to Conceptually Design Sustainable Buildings. Construction Research Congress 2014. 140–149. 34 indexed citations

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Jrade, Ahmad & Farzad Jalaei. (2013). Integrating building information modelling with sustainability to design building projects at the conceptual stage. Building Simulation. 6(4). 429–444. 156 indexed citations

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Irizarry, Javier, Ebrahim Karan, & Farzad Jalaei. (2013). Integrating BIM and GIS to improve the visual monitoring of construction supply chain management. Automation in Construction. 31. 241–254. 377 indexed citations breakdown →

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