Amy Javernick-Will

  • Nicholas R. and Nancy D. Petry Professor in Construction Engineering and Management
  • CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
  • CIVIL SYSTEMS
  • ENGINEERING FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES

Amy Javernick-Will is a Nicholas and Nancy Petry Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering in the area of Construction Engineering and Management. Javernick-Will is a leader in reliable and sustainable delivery of infrastructure services, conducting research at the intersection of social/institutional and built infrastructure systems. Javernick-Will has received awards for her teaching (e.g., ASCE’s ExCEEd New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award),research (ASCE’s Daniel W. Halpin Award) and leadership (e.g., Engineering Project Organization’s Society Pathfinder Award). She is the project director of CEAE’s previous GAANN award. 

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management, September 2009; Stanford University
  • Master of Science, Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management, May 2001;
  • University of Colorado at Boulder Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, December 1999; University of Colorado at Boulder

Interests

Dr. Javernick-Will’s research interests include the management of project organizations, knowledge mobilization, risk management, disaster recovery and project delivery.

Selected Publications

  1. Davis, A., Javernick-Will, A., and Cook, S. (2018). “A comparison of interviews, focus groups, and photovoice to identify sanitation priorities and increase success of community-based sanitation systems”.  Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
  2. Jordan, E., Javernick-Will, A. and Tierney, K. (2016).  “Post-Tsunami Recovery in Tamil Nadu, India: Combined Social and Infrastructural outcomes”. Natural Hazards.
  3. Opdyke, A., Javernick-Will, A., and Koschmann, M. (2018). “Household Construction Knowledge Acquisition in Humanitarian Shelter Projects.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 28(6):131-139. 
  4. Litchfield, K., Javernick-Will, A., and A. Maul (2016).  “Technical and Professional Skills of Engineers Involved and Not Involved in Engineering Service.” Journal of Engineering Education.  105(1): 70-92.
  5. Deniz, D.*, Arneson, E., Liel, A., Dashti, S., and A. Javernick-Will (2017). “Flood Loss Models for Residential Buildings Based on the 2013 Colorado Floods”. Natural Hazards.
  6. Wanberg, J., Javernick-Will, A., and Taylor, J.T. (2017). “Mechanisms to initiate knowledge sharing connections in communities of practice”. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 143(11).