A rework reduction model for construction projects

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 426-440

  Love, Peter E D ^a   Irani, Zahir ^b   Edwards, David J ^c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; PROCUREMENT MODEL; REWORK; STEPWISE REGRESSION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 7944219517     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2004.835092     Document Type: Article

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