| Author | Sadashiv, Modak Chandrashekhar |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. ST-79-20 |
| Subject(s) | Engineering--Estimates and costs
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | This work presents a method of predesign determination of project duration and cost for building projects in Bangkok metropolitan area. The duration of building is a function of number of variables such as
total floor area, height, type of foundation and structure, weather conditions, supply of resources, technology available, efficiency of people, original tendered period, planning, repetitive works, number of subcontracts, changes in working drawings, and number of major equipment used.
The cost of building is a function of building height, number of types of major equipment's used, price index, type of building and quality of building.
Each of these variables are assigned with an appropriate value by utilizing past information. The order of importance of the variables is
found by stepwise linear regression and then multiple linear regression is used to get the appropriate prediction equation for duration and cost estimation with elimination of nonimportant variables.
The prediction equations obtained were tested on the regression data itself and on the completed projects outside the data used for regression.
This shows that the duration and cost of a proposed building can be estimated with an accuracy that is satisfactory and reasonable. The reliability of
the prediction equations was tested by means of statistical inference. |
| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Structural Engineering (STE) /Former Name = Structural Engineering and Construction (ST) |
| Chairperson(s) | Karasudhi, Pisidhi
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| Examination Committee(s) | Jearkjirm, Vithool ; Ping Kunawatsatit
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| Scholarship Donor(s) | The United Kingdom Government |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1979 |