Macroeconomic-aware forecasting of construction costs in developing countries: Using gated recurrent unit and long short-term memory deep learning framework

• Majed Alzara,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia

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• Nadeen Gihad,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Construction and Building Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Cairo, Egypt

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• Heba Abdou ,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hmabdouu@ju.edu.sa (HA); ahmed.ehab.egy20@outlook.com (AE)

  Affiliation Department of Interior Design, College of Engineering, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia

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• Akram Soltan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Construction and Building Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Cairo, Egypt

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• AlHussein Hilal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Construction and Building Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Cairo, Egypt

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• Ahmed Ehab

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hmabdouu@ju.edu.sa (HA); ahmed.ehab.egy20@outlook.com (AE)

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Badr University in Cairo (BUC), Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3554-8639

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