Browsing by Subject "Cost control"

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    • Construction cost estimating concepts and their application 
      Neil, James Marshall (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)
      Business failures among construction contracting firms occur at a rate which place contractors among the highest risk customers to banks. Many, if not most, contractor failures can be traced to the inability of contractors ...
    • Cost of production analysis for greenhouse grown foliage plants in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas 
      Stevens, Alan B. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)
      The Texas Rio Grande Valley Foliage Plant Industry is comprised of a small number of growers producing in adequate, low cost structures. Firm size varies from 50,000 to 1,300,000 square feet of greenhouse space with 87% ...
    • Does pictorial documentation improve construction cost control? 
      Foster, Richard Denni (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)
      Purpose. This research was undertaken to determine the relationships between the type and the amount of pictorial documentation used in engineering contracts and the resulting effects on the actual construction costs of ...
    • Project Execution and Offshore Field Development in the Current Oil Market Downturn 
      Tavassoli, Armin (2016-11-30)
      This Record of Study presents the author’s experience in the capacity of riser lead and technical advisor working on multiple engineering and management project assignments by Cuneiform Offshore Consulting (Cuneiform). ...
    • A regional forecasting model of the hospital sector 
      Smith, Dean Gordon (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      Rising costs and less certain revenues have made hospitals and administrators more aware of the need for accurate planning and budgeting. An important input in the expenditure budgeting process is knowledge of the prices ...
    • Spatial discriminatory pricing with a general cost function 
      Fratrik, Mark Robert (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)
      This dissertation analyzes the pricing decision of firms that sell over distance (referred to as spatial firms) and consequently, are subject to significant transportation cost. An optional control framework is used to ...
    • A study of Texas short-term stay hospitals' patterns of capital investment 
      Maxwell, Clarence E. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe the relationship between the size of a hospital and the annual cost of its capital projects. Particular attention was given to certain other variables to determine ...