Significant factors causing delay in the UAE construction industry

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1167-1176

  Faridi, Arshi Shakeel ^a   El Sayegh, Sameh Monir ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Delay; Project controls; Project management; Time; UAE

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; PLANNING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRUCTION DELAY; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE INDEX;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FACTOR ANALYSIS; PLANNING PROCESS; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TIME ALLOCATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 33751295266     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190600827033     Document Type: Article

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