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Date:11/9/2009

STI) plan. Through education and marketing strategies, she, Koebel, and Montague will address key findings of previous studies that identified the barriers to the adoption and factors influencing diffusion of innovation in the construction industry. While their intervention strategy will be designed for generalization to all construction trade sectors, the initial evaluation will be performed in the drywall finishing trade.

"We selected the drywall finishing trade because respiratory disease among plasterers and wall finishers in particular, is a major public health concern," Young-Corbett said. "Workers in these trades suffer from disproportionately high rates of respiratory disease and disability."

Through their new grant, they will target three separate components of the industry: the workers, owners of small firms, and proprietors of large firms. "In our past work, we found that barriers to adopting the more user-friendly technology differed," Young-Corbett said.

The worker intervention will employ "cues to action" and training aimed at health information, risks, trust, and control technology. The small-firm intervention will employ the creation of "technology champions" within the firms and training aimed at productivity and customer satisfaction impacts, health information, and regulatory drivers. The large-firm intervention will involve information dissemination to purchasing agents aimed at communicating productivity and quality impacts, health information, and regulatory drivers, Young-Corbett, also a member of the Virginia Tech Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, explained.

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Contact: Lynn Nystrom tansy@vt.edu 540-231-4371 Virginia Tech Source:Eurekalert

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