Cost effectiveness indicators of residential complex construction project

Cost-Effectiveness of 9 Crisis Residential Modalities

Residential construction cost: An Italian survey

This paper reports data describing development projects for new buildings according to construction costs in North-East Italy. A survey was carried out on local companies undertaking new residential development projects in two Italian regions (Veneto and Lombardy). The aim of this survey was to record new real estate construction projects, collecting both technical and socio-economic cost featu...

Performance Indicators for Successful Construction Project Performance

The construction industry is generally considered to have under performed compared to other industries. Not only that, the UK construction industry has been criticised for not performing at the same level as that of other developed countries. In relation to this, the UK working groups on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have identified ten parameters for benchmarking projects, in order to achi...

Cost Effectiveness of Residential Radon Remediation with Household Mobility

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that exposure to residential radon causes 7,000 to 30,000 lung cancer deaths per year. The EPA has provided extensive technical analysis of and support for their recommended policy response of remediating all homes above a threshold level of radon, but these and other benefit-cost analyses typically do not consider many important dimensions...

Monitoring systems and their effectiveness for project cost control in construction

This paper reports on a research to investigate the effectiveness of some commonly used monitoring systems, in detecting deviations from the planned cost and performance. The monitoring systems used in this work are: 1. Leading parameter technique