Modelling and predicting construction durations in Hong Kong public housing

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 351-362

  Chan, Daniel W M ^a   Kumaraswamy, Mohan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Construction durations; Hong Kong public housing; Modelling; Multiple linear regression; Predicting

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; FORECASTING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MODELS; PILES; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

CONSTRUCTION DURATION; CONSTRUCTION TIME; FORMULATION OF STANDARDS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PREDICTING; PUBLIC HOUSING; SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES; TIME PREDICTIONS;

HOUSING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HOUSING; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 0032774744     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461999371556     Document Type: Article

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