Assessing the impact of materials tracking technologies on construction craft productivity

Automation in Construction

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 903-911

  Grau, David ^a   Caldas, Carlos H ^b   Haas, Carl T ^c   Goodrum, Paul M ^d   Gong, Jie ^b  

^a The University of Alabama   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction automation; Materials tracking; Productivity

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRACKING; CONSTRUCTION AUTOMATION; CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY; ENGINEERED COMPONENTS; FIELD TRIAL; INDUSTRIAL SITES; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS TRACKING; PLANT PROJECT; PRODUCTIVITY IMPACTS; TRACKING PROCESS;

AUTOMATION; MATERIALS; TECHNOLOGY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 68049115666     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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