Stakeholder involvement in DOE's cost improvement initiative for environmental restoration and waste management activities

Journal Article · Mon Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 1994 · Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia); (United States)

OSTI ID:7043502

Jackson, J; Gillette, J L; Goldberg, M S; Hooper, G S ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) established the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM) in 1989 to consolidate responsibility for environmental remediation and compliance under one management organization. To understand and control costs, EM undertook the Benchmarking for Cost Improvement (Benchmarking) initiative. The Benchmarking initiative used four principal methods to examine cleanup cost issues: program classification, a nationwide cost improvement survey, paired cost comparison, and component benchmarking. A benefit of the Benchmarking initiative was the opportunity to focus DOE's effort to reduce costs on the real problems most likely to optimize cost savings. 1 ref., 1 fig.

• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 7043502
• Journal Information: Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia); (United States), Journal Name: Cost Engineering (Morgantown, West Virginia); (United States) Vol. 36:3; ISSN CSTEDM; ISSN 0274-9696
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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