Towards a visual guidance system for condition assessment of the building infrastructure

Proceedings, Annual Conference - Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Elhakeem, A ^a   Hegazy, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PERSONNEL; SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

ASSET MANAGEMENT; CONDITION ASSESSMENT; VISUAL DATABASE; VISUAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 33748954415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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