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Causes of Delays Occurring in Linear Projects-A Survey of Prestressed Concrete Sheet Pile Retaining Wall Constructions in Taiwan

Slovak Journal of Civil Engineering
Volume 33 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)
By: Chiang Pin Kuo and  Duy Hai Vo  
Open Access
|Jul 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjce-2025-0008 | Journal eISSN: 1338-3973 | Journal ISSN: 1210-3896
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Language: English
Page range: 11 - 25
Published on: Jul 5, 2025
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Keywords:
precast concrete sheet pile retaining wall,
Causes of delays,
Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP),
Relative Importance Index (RII),
Spearman rank correlation (ρ)
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