Cost and schedule monitoring of industrial building projects: Case study

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 853-862

  De Marco, Alberto ^a   Briccarello, Diego ^b   Rafele, Carlo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b IdEst Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Case reports; Construction management; Costs; Industrial plants; Information systems; Italy; Monitoring; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE METRICS; CASE REPORTS; COMPUTING PERFORMANCE; CONSTRUCTION EFFORTS; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; COST AND SCHEDULE; COST PERFORMANCE; EARNED VALUE; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; ITALY; MANAGEMENT TEAM; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; PROGRESS MEASUREMENT; PROJECT MANAGERS;

BUDGET CONTROL; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MONITORING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SCHEDULING;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 69149106542     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000055     Document Type: Article

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