Rafael Sacks

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors

  Chuck Eastman;Paul Teicholz;Rafael Sacks;Kathleen Liston

  7721
  Citations

• Interaction of Lean and Building Information Modeling in Construction

  Rafael Sacks;Lauri Koskela;Bhargav A. Dave;Robert Owen

  978
  Citations

• BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Designers, Engineers, Contractors, and Facility Managers

  Rafael Sacks;Charles Eastman;Ghang Lee;Paul Teicholz

  905
  Citations

• Construction safety training using immersive virtual reality

  Rafael Sacks;Amotz Perlman;Ronen Barak

  751
  Citations

• Specifying parametric building object behavior (BOB) for a building information modeling system

  Ghang Lee;Rafael Sacks;Charles M. Eastman

  650
  Citations

• Requirements for building information modeling based lean production management systems for construction

  Rafael Sacks;Milan Radosavljevic;Ronen Barak

  497
  Citations

• Construction with digital twin information systems

  Rafael Sacks;Ioannis Brilakis;Ergo Pikas;Haiyan Sally Xie

  483
  Citations

• Hazard recognition and risk perception in construction

  Amotz Perlman;Amotz Perlman;Rafael Sacks;Ronen Barak

  461
  Citations

• Construction Job Safety Analysis

  Ophir Rozenfeld;Rafael Sacks;Yehiel Rosenfeld;Hadassa Baum

  426
  Citations

• Parametric 3D modeling in building construction with examples from precast concrete

  Rafael Sacks;Charles M. Eastman;Ghang Lee

  369
  Citations

• Exchange Model and Exchange Object Concepts for Implementation of National BIM Standards

  C. M. Eastman;Y.-S. Jeong;R. Sacks;I. Kaner

  368
  Citations

• Construction safety and digital design: A review

  Wei Zhou;Jennifer Whyte;Rafael Sacks

  365
  Citations

• Tracking and locating components in a precast storage yard utilizing radio frequency identification technology and GPS

  Esin Ergen;Burcu Akinci;Rafael Sacks

  336
  Citations

• Assessing research issues in Automated Project Performance Control (APPC)

  Ronie Navon;Rafael Sacks

  312
  Citations

• Building Information Modeling Education for Construction Engineering and Management. I: Industry Requirements, State of the Art, and Gap Analysis

  R. Sacks;E. Pikas

  304
  Citations

• Visualization of Work Flow to Support Lean Construction

  R. Sacks;M. Treckmann;O. Rozenfeld

  293
  Citations

• Teaching Building Information Modeling as an Integral Part of Freshman Year Civil Engineering Education

  R. Sacks;R. Barak

  273
  Citations

• Semantics of model views for information exchanges using the industry foundation class schema

  M. Venugopal;C. M. Eastman;R. Sacks;J. Teizer

  263
  Citations

• Benchmark tests for BIM data exchanges of precast concrete

  Y.-S. Jeong;C.M. Eastman;R. Sacks;I. Kaner

  251
  Citations

• Toward automated generation of parametric BIMs based on hybrid video and laser scanning data

  Ioannis Brilakis;Manolis Lourakis;Rafael Sacks;Silvio Savarese

  243
  Citations