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Developing an intelligent system for teaching pre‐tender cost estimating of office building projects
Author(s) -
Shen Qiping,
Fong Patrick S. W.,
Deng Michael Z. M.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.1003
Subject(s) - cost estimate , computer science , engineering management , software engineering , systems engineering , engineering
Pre‐tender cost estimating of office building projects requires extensive knowledge and expertise. Due to the lack of design information in the early design stages, it is extremely difficult for cost engineers or quantity surveyors to arrive at an accurate cost estimate. This paper presents the design and testing of a knowledge‐based system that enables students to learn cost estimating of building projects in the conceptual design stages. The system, embedded with knowledge from experts, has been proved to be a very useful teaching and learning tool. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 9: 26–36, 2001