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Predictive Analytics for Early-Stage Construction Costs Estimation

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Low accuracy in the estimation of construction costs at early stages of projects has driven the research on alternative costing methods that take advantage of computing advances, however, direct implications in their use for practice is not clear.
Sergio Lautaro Castro Miranda   +3 more
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Cost Estimation in Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing

open access: yesOpen Engineering, 2016
In Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing the price of products must be defined during early stages of product design and during the bidding process, thus an overestimation of product development (PD) costs may lead to the loss of orders and an ...
Hooshmand Yousef   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Automated Construction Quantity Take-Off: An Integrated Approach to Information Extraction from Work Descriptions

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Construction-oriented quantity take-off (QTO) refers to the process of determining the quantities for construction items or work packages in accordance with their descriptions. However, the current construction-oriented QTO practice relies on estimators’
Shengxian Tang   +5 more
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The adaptation of product cost estimation techniques to estimate the cost of service [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2012
This article presents an approach to ascertain whether product cost estimating techniques can be adapted for use in estimating the costs for providing a service. The research methodology adopted consists of a critique and analysis of the literature to ascertain how current cost estimation techniques are used.
Xiao Xi Huang   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Degradation of Phenol via an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) with Immobilized Commercial Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Photocatalysts

open access: yesNanomaterials, 2023
Four commercial titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysts, namely P25, P90, PC105, and PC500, were immobilized onto steel plates using a sol-gel binder and investigated for phenol degradation under 365 nm UV-LED irradiation.
Michael Schwarze   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Earthquake Damage Repair Loss Estimation in New Zealand: What Other Variables Are Essential Based on Experts’ Opinions?

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
Major earthquakes can cause extensive damage to buildings and alter both the natural and built environments. Accurately estimating the financial impact from these events is complex, and the damage is not always visible to the naked eye.
Ravindu K. A. V. D. Kahandawa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ensembling Artificial Bee Colony With Analogy-Based Estimation to Improve Software Development Effort Prediction

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Analogy-Based Estimation (ABE) is one of the promising estimation models used for predicting the software development effort. Researchers proposed different variants of the ABE model, but still, the most suitable procedure could not be produced for ...
Muhammad Arif Shah   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A study of inline chemical coagulation/precipitation-ceramic microfiltration and nanofiltration for reverse osmosis concentrate minimization and reuse in the textile industry

open access: yesWater Science and Technology, 2021
Reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) is one of the major drawbacks in membrane treatment technologies specifically due to the scale-forming ions. It is important to remove these ions from ROC to enhance total water recovery and reuse in the textile industry
Mehtap Dursun Çelebi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic evaluation of postoperative hypofractionated radiation therapy in patients with breast cancer

open access: yesФармакоэкономика, 2018
Breast cancer remains the most common malignant neoplasm in women. According to the current standards, radiation therapy is one of the most important components of the multi-disciplinary treatment.
G. V. Afonin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Model Development for Carbon Capture Cost Estimation

open access: yesClean Technologies, 2021
Carbon capture is the most critical stage for the implementation of a technically viable and economically feasible carbon capture and storage or utilization scheme.
Tryfonas Pieri   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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