Establishing and weighting decision criteria for building system selection in housing construction

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1239-1250

  Pan, Wei ^a   Dainty, Andrew R J ^b   Gibb, Alistair G F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction management; Construction methods; Decision criteria; Decision making; Off site production; Prefabrication; Residential housing; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; DECISION CRITERIA; OFF-SITE PRODUCTION; PREFABRICATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

HOUSING; INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84869465392     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000543     Document Type: Article

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