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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 105
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 94

GIS-Based Automated Construction Project Cost Control

M. Dawood1, E. Elbeltagi1 and E. Elkassas2

1Structural Engineering Department, Mansoura University, Egypt
2Construction Engineering Department, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M. Dawood, E. Elbeltagi, E. Elkassas, "GIS-Based Automated Construction Project Cost Control", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 94, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.105.94
Keywords: project control, cost variances, construction management, geographic information systems.

Summary
Monitoring costs for construction projects represents a challenge not only for contractors but for project managers as well. The challenge results from the fact that source problems affecting construction cost are complex to be identified and managed in detail. A comprehensive mathematical cost control model for construction projects is presented in this paper. The first goal of this paper is to introduce detailed cost variances to identify the deviation from budget. Such variances are useful in highlighting and identifying the deviation causes. Accordingly, tacking the appropriate corrective actions can be clearly specified. The other goal is to visualize the output of the proposed control model using techniques employing geographic information systems (GIS). The current research introduces an automated integration with GIS to visualize construction project cost control to make it easy to track by project decision makers.

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