Estimation model of construction waste materials in Malaysia: Steel

BEIAC 2013 - 2013 IEEE Business Engineering and Industrial Applications Colloquium

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 709-713

  Che Hasan, Asmawati Bt ^a   Yusof, Zulkiflee B ^a   Mohd Ridzuan, Ahmad Ruslan B ^a   Atan, Ismail B ^a   Noordin, Basir B ^a   Abdul Ghani, Abdul Halim B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Construction waste; estimation model; MAPE; MRA; steel

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES; CONSTRUCTION WASTE GENERATIONS; CONSTRUCTION WASTES; ESTIMATION MODELS; MAPE; MEAN ABSOLUTE PERCENTAGE ERROR; MRA; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; STEEL;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84883080522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BEIAC.2013.6560224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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