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A study of clients' and estimators' tolerance towards estimating errors
Cheung, Franco; Wong, Margie; Skitmore, Martin - In: Construction Management and Economics 26 (2008) 4, pp. 349-362
considering the ability to identify cost sensitive elements to be more important than accuracy. In this regard, the formalization …
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Reliability of building embodied energy modelling: an analysis of 30 Melbourne case studies
Langston, Yu Lay; Langston, Craig Ashley - In: Construction Management and Economics 26 (2008) 2, pp. 147-160
to explore the accuracy of initial embodied energy prediction based on capital cost at various levels of model detail …
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Comparative analysis of pre-bid forecasting of building prices based on Singapore data
Gunner, John; Skitmore, Martin - In: Construction Management and Economics 17 (1999) 5, pp. 635-646
An analysis is described of a sample of pre-bid forecasts for 181 Singapore building contracts awarded between 1980 and 1991 in comparison with previous research results in this topic. Despite the apparent contradictions that occur between findings, it is shown that such differences could be...
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Evaluating the performance of combining neural networks and genetic algorithms to forecast construction demand: the case of the Singapore residential sector
Bee-Hua, Goh - In: Construction Management and Economics 18 (2000) 2, pp. 209-217
-GA model. A relative measure of forecasting accuracy, known as the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), is used for the …
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The accuracy of risk-based cost estimation for water infrastructure projects: preliminary evidence from Australian projects
Liu, Li; Napier, Zigrid - In: Construction Management and Economics 28 (2010) 1, pp. 89-100
overrun factors—optimistic bias and strategic misrepresentation. Yet, little is known about the accuracy of RBE and its … estimating approach shows that the projects estimated using RBE have better estimation accuracy than those estimated using more …
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