Examining the impacts of early cost drivers on contingencies

Construction Research Congress 2014: Construction in a Global Network - Proceedings of the 2014 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1518-1527

  Xiong, Bo ^a   Xia, Bo ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COST ESTIMATING; FLOORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUILDING CONTRACTS; CONSTRUCTION COSTS; CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; MULTIPLE CORRELATION; PROJECT INFORMATIONS; UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904694518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784413517.0155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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