Baseline determination in construction labor productivity-loss claims

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 160-165

  Gulezian, Ronald ^a   Samelian, Frederic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Hill International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Claims; Construction; Labor; Losses; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BASELINE PRODUCTIVITY; CLAIMS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; PROCESS CONTROL CHARTS;

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; EXTRAPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LOSSES; PERSONNEL; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTIVITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 0242494806     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2003)19:4(160)     Document Type: Article

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