Life-cycle-cost comparison of trenchless and conventional open-cut pipeline construction projects

Proceedings of the ASCE Pipeline Division Specialty Congress - Pipeline Engineering and Construction

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 635-640

  Najafi, Mohammad ^a   Kim, Kyoung Ok ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIFE-CYCLE COSTS; OPEN-CUT METHOD; SOCIAL COSTS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PIPELINES;

EID: 27144507338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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