Quantification of delay factors using the relative importance index method for construction projects in Turkey

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-139

  Gündüz, Murat ^a   Nielsen, Yasemin ^b   Özdemir, Mustafa ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ABU DHABI UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c BOTAS Pipeline Corporation   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Construction projects; Relative importance index method; Schedule delay

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION DELAYS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONTROL DELAY; DELAY FACTORS; IMPORTANCE INDEX; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PROJECT PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULE DELAY;

ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 84875014117     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000129     Document Type: Article

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