Journal
Publications
2022
Spearing, L., Bakchan, A., Hamlet, L., Stephens, K., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Comparing Qualitative Analysis Techniques for Construction Engineering and Management Research: The Case of Arctic Water Infrastructure.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Special Collection on Research Methodologies. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CO.1943-7862.0002313
Stephens, K., Powers, C., Robertson, B., Spearing, L., Collier, J., Tich, K., and Smith, W.R. (2022). “Building More Resilient Communities: Communication and Organizing Practices in a Community-Wide Wildfire Evacuation Drill in the U.S.” Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12402
Tiedmann, H., Spearing, L., Sela, L., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Kirisits, M., and Faust, K. (2022). “Modeling in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overcoming the Water Sector’s Data Struggles to Realize the Potential of Hydraulic Models.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001561
Berglund, E. Z., Buchberger, S… Spearing, L…Yang, E. (2022). “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Water Utility Operations and Vulnerability.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001560
2021
Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Sela, L., Nagy, Z., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Kirisits, M., and Faust, K. (2021). “Human-Infrastructure Interactions during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Water and Electricity Demand Profiles at the Building-Level.” Environmental Science and Technology Water. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.1c00176
Berglund, E. Z., Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L.… and Kadinski, L. (2021). “Water and Wastewater Systems and Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147 (5). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001373 *Editor’s Choice, Issue 147(5)
Spearing, L., Stephens, K., and Faust, K. (2021). “Shelter Shopping: Where the Built Environment and Social Systems Meet.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102161
2020
Spearing, L., Thelemaque, N., Kaminsky, J., Katz, L., Kinney, K., Sela, L. and Faust, K. (2020). “Implications of Social Distancing Policies on Drinking Water Infrastructure: An Overview of the Challenges to and Responses of US Utilities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Environmental Science and Technology Water, 1. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00229
Spearing, L., Dias, F., Faust, K., and Bhat, C. (2020). “Determining Multi-level Drivers of Perceiving Undesirable Taste and Odor in Tap Water: A Joint Modeling Approach.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 147 (3). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001326
Spearing, L., and Faust, K. (2020). “Cascading System Impacts of the 2018 Camp Fire in California: The Interdependent Provision of Infrastructure Services to Displaced Populations.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101822
Conference Proceedings
2021
Spearing, L., Thelemaque, N., Araya, F., Kaminsky, J., and Faust, K. (2022). “Connecting Pre-existing Characteristics of Water Utilities to Impacts during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Construction Research Congress, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Thelemaque, N., Spearing, L., Faust, K. and Kaminsky, J. (2022). “Water Utilities and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Pandemic-Related Research.” Construction Research Congress, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
LaPatin, M., Spearing, L., Tiedmann, H., Kavvada, O., Giorda, M., Daniélou, J., Hacker, M. and Faust, K. (2022). “A Framework for Measuring the Cost of Controversy Surrounding Energy Construction Projects.” Construction Research Congress, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
2020
Spearing L., Osman, K., Faust, K.M., and Armanios, D. (2020). “Systems Vary, Affordability Should Not: Trends of Water Sector Affordability Based on City Attributes.” Construction Research Congress, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Stephens, K. K., Powers, C. J., Spearing, L., Collier, J., Tich, K., & Robertson, B.W. (2020). “Building more resilient communities: Communication and organizing practices in disaster preparedness.” Int. Communication Association (ICA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia.
2019
Araya, F., Osman, K., Spearing, L., and Faust, K.M. (2019). “Assessing the Influence of Household Characteristics on Water Conservation Behaviors in Austin, Texas.” Int. Construction Specialty Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Faure, J., Faust, K., Khwaja, N., O’Brien, W., Hale, W., Spearing, L. (2019). “Construction Engineering and Inspection (CE&I) Costs in the Texas Department of Transportation.” Int. Construction Specialty Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.