Factors affecting the cost of engineering for transportation projects

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dc.contributor.advisorO'Brien, William J.en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPersad, Khali R.en
dc.creatorSingh, Prakash, 1983-en
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-22T15:20:02Zen
dc.date.available2010-09-22T15:20:02Zen
dc.date.available2010-09-22T15:20:12Zen
dc.date.issued2009-12en
dc.date.submittedDecember 2009en
dc.date.updated2010-09-22T15:20:12Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractState DOTs (department of transportation) spend billions of dollars on construction and maintenance of transportation projects every year. In addition, significant sums go to preliminary and construction engineering (PE and CE). For many projects, DOTs utilize engineering services from consultants, to supplement in-house engineering. The cost and quality of consultant’s engineering services compared to in-house, are important issues to justify the involvement of consultants. This report provides an analysis of those issues on Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) projects. Traditionally, the costs of PE and CE are calculated as a fixed percentage of total project construction cost, and the efficiency of engineering organizations is assessed by comparison of their gross percentages. However, the results presented here show that project scope and complexity are significant factors in PE and CE cost. Therefore, simplistic comparisons of PE and CE percentages can be misleading when applied across a mixed program of projects.en
dc.description.departmentCivil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-12-673en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectPreliminary engineeringen
dc.subjectConstruction engineeringen
dc.subjectStepwise regressionen
dc.subjectProject typesen
dc.subjectFunction codesen
dc.subjectOutsourcingen
dc.subjectIn-houseen
dc.subjectTexas Department of Transportationen
dc.titleFactors affecting the cost of engineering for transportation projectsen
dc.type.genrethesisen
thesis.degree.departmentCivil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineeringen
thesis.degree.disciplineCivil Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science in Engineeringen

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