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Cost of Quality in Construction

open access: yes, 2023
The cost of quality while a well-established measure in the manufacturing and other industries, has shown to have limited data available within the construction industry. This case study research article seeks to establish within the construction industry the cost of quality throughout the project lifecycle.
Cora O'Connor, Olivia McDermott
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A project management quality cost information system for the construction industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
A prototype Project Management Quality Cost System (PROMQACS) was developed to determine quality costs in construction projects. The structure and information requirements that are needed to provide a classification system of quality costs were ...
Irani, Z, Love, PED
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Cost Assessment of preconstruction phase for Construction Projects in Egypt [PDF]

open access: yesPort Said Engineering Research Journal, 2018
The main premise of transaction cost economics is that project cost is not only production costs but there are also additional costs resulting from transactions between parties.
Emad Abdel-Galil   +2 more
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DIFFERENTIATED ROAD CONSTRUCTION COSTS [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport, 2017
In the context of the variability of road construction costs in Europe, the prices of 24 contracts for sections of motorways in Poland, concluded in 2016 by the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways, were analysed.
Andrzej WIĘCKOWSKI
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Performance Analysis of Construction Cost Prediction Using Neural Network for Multioutput Regression

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
In a construction project, construction cost estimation is very important, but construction costs are affected by various factors, so they are difficult to predict accurately. However, with the recent development of ANN technology, it has become possible
Seokheon Yun
doaj   +1 more source

The importance and necessity of cost management of construction projects [PDF]

open access: yesUrbanism. Arhitectura. Constructii, 2020
Constructions are the primary vector in the process of economic and social development and modernization. Estimating the costs of construction projects with high accuracy in the conceptual phase of project development is crucial for feasibility studies ...
Alexandra-Marina Barbu, Mihaela Sandu
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The effect of irradiance on the carbon balance and tissue characteristics of five herbaceous species differing in shade-tolerance

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2014
Plant photosynthesis scales positively with growth irradiance. The carbon balance, defined here as the daily whole-plant gross CO2 assimilation (A) partitioned in C available for growth and C required for respiration (R), is thus irradiance dependent ...
Thijs Leendert Pons, Hendrik ePoorter
doaj   +1 more source

THE COST OF CONSTRUCTING HOSPITALS FOR THE INSANE [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1878
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openaire   +2 more sources

Minimization of Construction Costs for an All Battery-Swapping Electric-Bus Transportation System: Comparison with an All Plug-In System

open access: yesEnergies, 2017
The greenhouse gases and air pollution generated by extensive energy use have exacerbated climate change. Electric-bus (e-bus) transportation systems help reduce pollution and carbon emissions.
Shyang-Chyuan Fang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

International comparisons of cost and productivity in construction: a bad example

open access: yesConstruction Economics and Building, 2012
In a report published in June 2012 the Business Council of Australia (BCA) reported that it costs considerably more to build a variety of types of infrastructure in Australia than it does in the US.
Rick Best
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