Sharpen your cost estimating skills

Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 22-30

  Dysert, Larry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgets; Cost estimates; Estimation methodologies; Projects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746091510     PISSN: 02749696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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