Estimating weather impact on the duration of construction activities

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-366

  Moselhi, Osama ^a   Gong, Daji ^a   El Rayes, Khaled ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Construction productivity; Decision support system; Planning and scheduling; Weather impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001438608     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l96-122     Document Type: Article

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