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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"cost planning"”.
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The infrastructure cost planning model : an integrated solution to cost effective design
Submitted in fulfilment of the academic requirements for the Degree of Master of Technology: Civil Engineering and Surveying, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2009.
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Risk management in the cost planning and control of building projects : the case of the quantity surveying profession in Kenya
… thesis examines financial risk management in the cost planning and cost control of building projects in Kenya. The quantity surveying professional in Kenya is faced with poor access to the recorded cost data needed for preparing final building cost estimates and for budget prediction. This …
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Decentralized on-board planning and scheduling for crosslink-enabled Earth-observing constellations
… temporal coverage, while at a fraction of the cost. Planning and scheduling for efficient bulk data routing with discrete crosslink windows in a dynamic network is a difficult combinatorial optimization problem [30]. As problem size grows, quickly solving the planning and scheduling problem …
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Das Minimalkostenprinzip
… Infrastrukturinvestitionen auf. Wie das Least-Cost Planning löst das daraus entwickelte Prinzip die Makro-Steuerungsdefizite durch eine komplexitätsreduzierende Mikroperspektive auf. Es fragt danach, ob die durch eine Infrastruktur zu erbringenden Dienstleistungen nicht auf andere Weise …
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ACCURACY IN DESIGN STAGE COST ESTIMATING
Design stage cost estimating or prediction of the successful tender bid is recognised as one of the important functions of the quantity surveying profession. Despite this recognised importance, many practicing quantity surveyors are unaware of their own performance as regards to the level of …
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The potential use of 35mm aerial photography in planning a selective mechanized thinning
… accumulating a full load. Productivities and costs of felling, bunching, and skidding per cord of wood were evaluated with computer simulations for three thinning procedures. The costs of planning the thinning by ground methods and photos were compared so that the least cost planning and …
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Application of mathematical model techniques to the planning and control of overhead costs in the construction industry
For the purposes of cost-planning and'control and efficient execution of construction projects, overhead costs - head office overhead costs of construction companies and site overhead costs of, construction projects - are-important-to companies in the industry as these costs sometimes amount-to-ten …
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A planning paradigm for electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Tanzania
… large-scale grid systems conceived through least-cost-planning; and decentralized, small-scale off-grid systems administered through entrepreneurial pilots. My thesis offers a new paradigm, a mid-scale opportunistic and pluralistic planning paradigm, to address the dynamic economic, social, …
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The development of 5D BIM framework to facilitate costing in contractor-led projects
… a significant shift and changing the dynamics of cost professional functions. This therefore requires the current fragmented construction industry to urgently review approaches to existing cost estimating and cost planning processes leading to a reliable project budget. This drive, along with 2025 …
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A Financial Costing Model for Onion Seed Production
… producers through the development of a financial cost-planning tool. This tool will help producers to make strategic financial decisions about adopting their own onion seed enterprise. This model provides a clearer understanding of how the physical production process is translated into the …
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In the balance: Electricity, sustainability and least cost competition
… by reconciling the principles of least cost planning with the competitive electricity industry. The thesis proposes a novel balanced approach of ‘least cost competition’. Least cost competition aims to encourage both more effective competition in delivering energy services, and better …
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Essays in Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting and Forecast Combination
… of demand for hospital services made efficient cost planning increasingly crucial for hospitals, in particular for staff which accounts for more than half of hospitals’ expenses. This is facilitated by accurate forecasts of patient census and churn. Using a dataset of more than 3 million …
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Empirical evidence of utility sponsored conservation programs
… to purchasers of high-efficiency appliances. The costs of these conservation programs are then passed-on to all customers as increased energy prices. Economic theory predicts that the income and substitution affects should decrease the consumption of non-participants in the programs and may …
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Evaluating the optimal innovative cost control techniques used in the South African construction industry
… by economic difficulties, such as the high costs of construction materials, that have a negative impact on project costs. Cost overruns have been determined as a phenomenon continually plaguing the construction industry in both private and public sectors, and very few projects are completed …
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Řízení projektu výstavby
Bakalářská práce se zabývá tématem řízení projektu výstavby, na které nahlíží z pohledu investora. Obsahem teoretické části je vysvětlení základních pojmů a seznámení se s metodami z oblasti plánování projektů. Praktická část je zaměřena na aplikaci vybraných metod projektového řízení na projektu …