Towards improving construction labor productivity and projects' performance

Alexandria Engineering Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-330

  Shehata, Mostafa E ^a   El Gohary, Khaled M ^b  

^a Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Concepts; Improvement; Labor productivity; Measurements; State of the art

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MEASUREMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CONCEPTS; CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTIVITY; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; IMPROVEMENT; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; STATE OF THE ART;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84859433506     PISSN: 11100168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aej.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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