A chronographic method for construction project planning

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1547-1557

  Francis, Adel ^a   Miresco, Edmond ^b  

^a Roche Ltd Consulting Group   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronographic method; Critical path method; Gantt; Modeling; Planning; Precedence; Scheduling; Time scaled

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; SCHEDULING;

CHRONOGRAPHIC METHOD;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CRITICAL PATH ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING;

CONSTRUCTION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34249860742     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L06-148     Document Type: Article

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