A model for predicting plant maintenance costs

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-75

  Edwards, David J ^a   Holt, Gary D ^a   Harris, Frank C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction plant; Plant downtime; Plant maintenance cost; Tracked hydraulic excavators

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; EXCAVATION; EXCAVATORS; MAINTENANCE;

CONSTRUCTION PLANTS; HYDRAULIC EXCAVATOR; INDIRECT COSTS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; PLANT DOWNTIME; PLANT MAINTENANCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; RANDOM SAMPLE;

COSTS;

EID: 0002100471     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461900370960     Document Type: Article

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