- Author
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Texas A&M University
- Title
- Construction Contractor Planning for Fixed-Price Construction.
- Coporate
- Texas A&M Univ., College Station
- Report
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Source Document 20; Task Force 83-6
November 1986
85 p.
- Keywords
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construction
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planning
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cost
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cost effectiveness
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management systems
- Identifiers
- fixed-price construction challenge; planning applied to fixed price construction
- Abstract
- The creeping erosion of construction efficiency and productivity with the concomitant increase in construction costs is well documented in the Business Roundtable's Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness (CICE) Pruject reports. Wasteful labor practices, ineffective cost, schedule, quality, and materials control systems, outdated contracting procedures and a host of other factors were all cited as contributors to the overall problem. But, a major general conclusion reached in these reports is that most of these problems are really attributable to management failure - somehow, many of the modern management principles and techniques available and practiced elsewhere in industry seem to have escaped much of the construction segment.