Monitoring labor inputs: Automated-data-collection model and enabling technologies

Automation in Construction

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 185-199

  Navon, Ronie ^a   Goldschmidt, Eytan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Automation; Benchmarking; Data collection; Inputs; Key performance indicators (KPI); Labor; Monitoring; Performance; Project control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BENCHMARKING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION (ADC);

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 0037332784     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-5805(02)00043-2     Document Type: Article

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