Calculating total rework costs in Australian construction projects

Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-27

  Love, Peter E D ^a   Edwards, David J ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Australia; Costs; Defects; Deviations; Failures; Non conformance; Rework

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DEFECTS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALIA; DEVIATIONS; FAILURES; NON-CONFORMANCE; REWORK;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION; COST; PROJECT ASSESSMENT;

EID: 27944450797     PISSN: 10286608     EISSN: 10290249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10286600500049904     Document Type: Article

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