A compendium of buildability issues from the viewpoints of construction practitioners

Architectural Science Review

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-90

  Wong, Franky W H ^a   De Saram, D Darshi ^a   Lam, Patrick T I ^a   Chan, Daniel W M ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Assessment system; Buildability; Constructability; Practitioner's views

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645067159     PISSN: 00038628     EISSN: 17589622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/asre.2006.4910     Document Type: Article

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