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There are three components that make up quality costs: prevention, appraisal and failure costs. The ISO 9000 standard … introduces a quality management system that has been widely claimed would reduce the costs of business. One of the ways it does … this is through a reduction in quality costs. The ISO 9000 quality management system establishes work procedures that …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the main factors that affect the construction cost of affordable housing in Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 14 consultants, 16 contractors and five real estate investors was performed. The survey included 34 different...
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Purpose – There is a lack of empirical research on risk mitigation strategies for those construction projects procured by guaranteed maximum price contracts (GMP) and target cost contracts (TCC). The paper aims to identify and analyse the risk mitigation strategies for GMP/TCC construction...
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Purpose – Management capability is one of the major criteria for evaluating construction contractors during prequalification and tender evaluation This paper aims to investigate the impact of contractors' management capability as a prequalification criterion on cost and time performance of...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the applications of factor cost indices in the building industry in Nairobi, Kenya against the possibilities established through a review of the principles so as to establish the extent of use in practical situations in the industry. There are...
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. Findings – Analysis of 32 sample cases revealed that BIM implementation costs were mostly defined by a range of cost variables … average, software costs accounted for about 55 percent of total implementation costs. This particular cost descriptor was … study also found that training cost was a third of software costs, while the average total cost of services, recruitment and …
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associated costs, specifically. Practical implications – Practitioners may wish to consider the perceived benefits of PPP …
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