Abstract
One major challenge facing contemporary construction managers is the equitable pricing of changes in contract work. This work introduces a new microcomputer based management tool which uses the quantitative power of influence diagrams to predict the price of any type of potential change. This work provides an original examination of the basic influence diagram components with respect to construction activities and identifies techniques to join modes to model construction processes. A complete, detailed case study demonstrates how labor productivity information gathered in the at the jobsite is used to create an influence diagram which calculates a numerical value for the indirect impact of an actual construction change.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 441-448 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 4th Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering - Philadelphia, PA, USA Duration: 16 Jun 1997 → 18 Jun 1997 |
Conference
| Conference | Proceedings of the 1997 4th Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering |
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| City | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| Period | 16/06/97 → 18/06/97 |