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Dada, J O and Jagboro, G O (2007) An evaluation of the impact of risk on project cost overrun in the Nigerian construction industry. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 12(01), 37–44.

Hassanein, A A G and Nemr, W E (2007) Management of Change Order Claims in the Egyptian Industrial Construction Sector. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 12(01), 45–60.

Ke, Q and Isaac, D (2007) Ownership structure and corporate performance: empirical evidence of China’s listed property companies. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 12(01), 3–10.

Lowe, D J, Emsley, M W and Harding, A (2007) Relationships between total construction cost and design related variables. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 12(01), 11–24.

Wang, N and Horner, R M W (2007) Fuzzy rule based system approach to assess cleaning costs of carpet flooring. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 12(01), 25–36.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Cost estimate; fuzzy rule base system; cleaning cost; carpet
  • ISBN/ISSN: 1366-4387
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/13664380780001091
  • Abstract:
    The impact of ‘context of use’ to the whole life costs (WLC) of building elements has not yet been studied in previous researches. Lack of hard and detailed historical data constraint the use of traditional methods for this purpose. A fuzzy rule-based system (FRBS) for any type carpet cleaning cost estimate is one of a series of fuzzy models developed to estimate the WLC of building elements with the consideration of context of use to the elements. The fuzzy reasoning method, as the representation of human reasoning, is applied to WLC for the first time for carpet cleaning cost. The data used are the linguistic judgments from some experienced experts based on interview surveys. The implementation of the model is demonstrated in a case study. The result is assessed by the experts as an acceptable estimate. The paper concludes that Fuzzy Rule Based System is an appropriate method to model running costs of building elementals. The model allows user to predict the cost variation of cleaning cost of carpet flooring according to its designed ‘context of use.