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Cost escalations in the front-end of projects – empirical evidence from Norwegian road projects

Morten WeldeDepartment of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
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James OdeckDepartment of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Pages 612-630 | Received 16 Feb 2016, Accepted 28 Dec 2016, Published online: 13 Jan 2017

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