The shift to warranties and performance specifications: What of method specifications?

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 953-963

  Guo, Kelu ^a   Minchin, Edward ^a   Ferragut, Ted ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TDC Partners Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Method specifications; Performance specifications; Performance based specifications; Performance related specifications; Prescriptive specifications; Warranties

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; CONTRACTS; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

METHOD SPECIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE-BASED SPECIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE-RELATED SPECIFICATIONS; PRESCRIPTIVE SPECIFICATIONS; WARRANTIES;

SPECIFICATIONS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 29244487518     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190500183842     Document Type: Article

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