- Author
- Construction Industry Institute
- Title
- Scope Definition and Control.
- Coporate
- Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX
- Report
- Publication 6-2, July 1986, 26 p.
- Keywords
- construction
- Abstract
- There has been considerable alarm in the business community over industrial project cost overruns in recent years. What are the causes? The Business Roundtable Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness (CICE) Project Report A-6 states that "Poor scope definition at the estimate (budget) stage and loss of control of project scope rank as the most frequent contributing factors to cost overruns." A recent report found that some construction industry officials consider lack of scope definition to be the most serious problem on construction projects. This publication will explore this subject and attempt to answer these questions: a) Why is scope definition a problem?; b) Why is scope growth a problem?; and c) What can industry do to control these problems?