The maturing concept of estimating project cost contingency: A review

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The maturing concept of estimating project cost contingency: A review

Contingency is a ubiquitous component of project cost estimating. This paper provides a review of the literature pertaining to the estimating of project cost contingency. It describes the flaws of the tradition percentage method for estimating project cost contingency and sets out more robust estima...

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Main Author:	Baccarini, David
Other Authors:	Runeson, G
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	University of Technology, Sydney 2006
Subjects:	project cost contingency cost modelling regression
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29634

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