...G. Deepa; A.J. Niranjana; A.S. Balu Purpose This study aims at proposing a hybrid model for early cost prediction of a construction project. Early cost prediction for a construction project is the basic approach to procure a project within a predefined budget. However, most of the projects...

...Kabir Bala; Shehu Ahmad Bustani; Baba Shehu Waziri Purpose – The purpose of this study was develop a computer-based cost prediction model for institutional building projects in Nigeria through the use of artificial neural network (ANN) technique. The back-propagation network learns by example...