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Title: Estimating design costs for first-of-a-kind projects

Abstract

Modern scientific facilities are often outcomes of projects that are first-of-a-kind, that is, minimal historical data are available for project costs and schedules. However, at Fermilab, there was an opportunity to execute two similar projects consecutively. In this paper, a comparative study of the design costs for these two projects is presented using earned value methodology. This study provides some insights into how to estimate the cost of a replicated project.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
879083
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-CONF-06-042
TRN: US0701141
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH03000
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, Salvador, Brazil, 17-20 Sep 2006
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; DESIGN; FERMILAB; MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULES; Accelerators

Citation Formats

Banerjee, Bakul, and /Fermilab. Estimating design costs for first-of-a-kind projects. United States: N. p., 2006. Web.
Banerjee, Bakul, & /Fermilab. Estimating design costs for first-of-a-kind projects. United States.
Banerjee, Bakul, and /Fermilab. 2006. "Estimating design costs for first-of-a-kind projects". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/879083.
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abstractNote = {Modern scientific facilities are often outcomes of projects that are first-of-a-kind, that is, minimal historical data are available for project costs and schedules. However, at Fermilab, there was an opportunity to execute two similar projects consecutively. In this paper, a comparative study of the design costs for these two projects is presented using earned value methodology. This study provides some insights into how to estimate the cost of a replicated project.},
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year = {Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2006},
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