ABSTRACT
The human is a neat and tidy world-builder. There is a need in everything we do for some order and purpose (what Katz (1986) refers to as a ‘pattern’), otherwise our mind will begin to reject it. Where is the pattern in current cost modelling research? On what common structure are those consigned with understanding cost modelling, both as a science (theory) and a technology (practice), supposed to orientate their creative thinking?
