ASC Regions 6 & 7 2027 Student Competition and
Construction Management Conference

Schedule of Events

The presentation will be interactive; i.e. the audience will be requested to participate in developing a construction MBA.

Building Where Nothing Is Familiar: What Lunar Construction Can Teach Us About Engineering, Construction Management, and Project Controls
What happens to the traditional boundaries between engineering design, construction management, estimating, scheduling, risk, and project controls when construction moves into an extreme environment?

This presentation draws from nearly two years of multidisciplinary research behind Estimating Lunar Construction: The Master Estimating Theory, bringing together contributors from NASA, UC Davis, MIT, and professionals across aerospace, engineering, construction, estimating, project controls, and major engineering and construction organizations.

Using lunar construction as a case study, the presentation explores how extreme conditions force traditionally separate project disciplines to become interconnected. When familiar labor, equipment, supply chains, historical data, and established means and methods are removed, a design decision becomes a constructability decision; constructability affects logistics and schedule; and those conditions influence cost, risk, and project controls.

The Moon provides a unique laboratory for making these relationships visible, and for examining what they can teach both academia and industry about educating the next generation of professionals and managing increasingly complex projects here on Earth.

For reference, the published paper is available through the American Society of Professional Estimators here:
Estimating Lunar Construction: The Master Estimating Theory