Change orders impact on labor productivity

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 354-359

  Moselhi, Osama ^a   Assem, Ihab ^a   El Rayes, Khaled ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Change orders; Claims; Computer software; Construction industry; Dispute resolution; Neural networks; Productivity

Indexed keywords

CHANGE ORDERS; CLAIMS; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 14544291592     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2005)131:3(354)     Document Type: Article

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