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Does pictorial documentation improve construction cost control?
dc.creator | Foster, Richard Denni | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T21:31:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T21:31:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-350233 | |
dc.description | Typescript (photocopy). | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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 the desired projects. Pictorial documentation is defined as the hand- or machine-drawn picture, photograph or model type of reproduceable record in which sizes and relative positions of parts can be accurately measured and which are accepted as a legal and binding portion of an engineering type contract. Procedure. Data were secured from a pilot study of two parts. Part one determined the effect of using or not using pictorial documentation on construction cost control for the period of 1960 to 1980 and also the types of pictorial documentation currently employed. This was accomplished through interviews with project management people in 21 Canadian organizations grouped into 7 owner/operators, 7 designers and 7 contractors all located in Southern Ontario. Part two attempted to determine the degree of improvement that pictorial documentation gives to construction cost control. This was investigated through the analysis of the contractual communication packages (CCPs) used on 12 pairs of similarly complex and recently constructed projects provided by twelve of the twenty one organizations who permitted their production managers to participate. Applications. The research dealt with a topic not covered in the literature of construction management, contract claims, engineering documentation and specifications. The new knowledge presented tells construction managers, cost engineers and educators what the owner/operators, designers and contractors are seeking from the components of their pre-bid contractual communication packages. It also tells them the advantages, disadvantages and usage of eight pictorial types currently available for use in their pictorial documentation. | en |
dc.format.extent | ix, 105 leaves | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Civil Engineering | en |
dc.subject.classification | 1982 Dissertation F756 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Building | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Cost control | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Engineering graphics | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Buildings | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Specifications | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Construction contracts | en |
dc.title | Does pictorial documentation improve construction cost control? | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. in Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.level | Doctorial | en |
dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
dc.identifier.oclc | 9803595 |
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