scholarly journals Causes and Mitigation Strategies of Delay in Power Construction Projects: Gaps between Owners and Contractors in Successful and Unsuccessful Projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 5973
Author(s):  
Edwin Thomas Banobi ◽  
Wooyong Jung
Keyword(s):  
Time Delay ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Delay Management ◽  
Top Management Support ◽  
Power Construction ◽  
Project Supervision

Few studies have verified the different causes of project delays between the owner and contractor perspectives. This article’s goal is to find what the causes of delay are and how to mitigate this delay depending on project performance. Thus, this study investigated 82 owner-side experts and 106 contractor-side experts in Tanzanian power construction projects. In successful projects (less than 10% time delay), the owners and contractors weighted similar causes such as vandalism and permits from authorities. They suggested similar mitigation strategies such as close project supervision, capacity building training, and proper logistics management. While in unsuccessful projects (more than 10% time delay), they exhibited many different responses. In particular, contractors weighted the causes incurred by changes in scope, owner’s poor supervision, delays in approval, failure in planning and designing risk more than contractors. Owners weighted the mitigation strategies such as top management support and timely procurement more than contractors. These findings will help project managers to understand owners’ and contactors’ different concerns and develop better solutions. This study mainly contributes to improving delay management in power construction projects in developing countries.

Research on the Impact Mechanism of Organizational Culture on Project Performance in Construction Projects

2017 ◽  
Vol 873 ◽  
pp. 212-219
Author(s):  
Yu Ming Song ◽  
Ya Qin Wang ◽  
Yun Le
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Impact Mechanism ◽  
The Impact

The existing literature shows that organizational culture has a significant impact on its performance. However, few studies probe into their relationship in the context of project. This study examines the impactmechanism of organization cultureon project performancethroughorganizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in the construction projects. A survey on 451 professionals served in the construction projects is conducted. The findings demonstrate that organizational culture influences project performance significantly. And clan culturehas greaterpositive effectsonproject performance than other three culture domains. The results also indicate OCB partially mediates the impact of organizationalcultureon project performance. These findings suggest that organizationalculture can be used by project managers as a lever to exert citizenship behaviors among project members and eventually improveproject performance. The managerialimplications are discussed.

Analysis of Time and Cost Overrun in Malaysian Construction

2012 ◽  
Vol 452-453 ◽  
pp. 1002-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chidambaram Ramanathan ◽  
Narayanan Sambu Potty ◽  
Arazi B Idrus
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Related Question ◽  
Cost Overrun ◽  
Construction Stage ◽  
Theoretical Domain ◽  
Related Group

The construction industry in Malaysia is very important for creating employment, both directly and indirectly. It faces two repeated problems during the construction stage: slippage of project-schedules, i.e. time overrun and overrun of project cost; to the dislike of owners, contractors and consultants. This paper studies the time delay and cost overrun factors for Design and Build D&B projects in Malaysia. A Questionnaire was used to collect data from practitioners and analyse the responses and rank the factors and groups on overall view of the contracting parties. Identified risk factors from the theoretical domain were used to prepare 79 time related question and 18 cost related question categorized in 9 groups and 1 group respectively. Total of 136 respondents recorded their ratings to the factors in the questionnaire. Labour-related group has the top 1 rank with RII 0.684. The results can be used as a guideline to successfully handle construction projects in Malaysia; contributing for better project performance and lead to positive risks, opportunities.

scholarly journals The Moderating Effects of Islamic Business Ethics on Organizational support of Residential Project Performance in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
pp. 277-283
Keyword(s):  
Business Ethics ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Top Management Support ◽  
Islamic Business Ethics ◽  
Support Housing

This research aims at exploring how the moderating effects of Islamic business ethics on organizational support of Malaysian residential project performance. Based on the theory of Project Management Success, Organizational support includes top management support and project organizational structure. A total of 185 respondents representative of residential developers have been selected to participate as the sample. The results show that the moderating effect of business ethics positively moderates the organizational support-housing project performance relationships. In addition, the organization support factors were also found to have a significant correlation with the performance of the residential project. In sum, Islamic business ethics is the partial moderator of the relationships. Thus, further research may consider finding practical reasons why it is so by reviewing extensive literature, or collecting a larger sample for example.

scholarly journals Employment of Unskilled Craft Workers in the UAE Construction Projects: Explicating the Reasons

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10S) ◽  
pp. 410-414
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Undesirable Outputs ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Delivery Performance ◽  
Depth Interview

The United Arab Emirates construction industry is beset with negative project performance outputs, such as defects, low productivity, delay in completion, and higher costs. Most critical among the recorded reasons for having these undesirable outputs is the engagement of unskilled craft workers. However, the demand for construction projects in the UAE is continually increasing, especially after Dubai won hosting of Expo 2020, as this consequently translates to increased demand for skilled construction craft workers, if optimal project delivery performance must be achieved. Therefore, subject matters related to skillfulness and productivity of construction craft workers become research windows for academic scholars and industry investigators in the UAE built environment. The main purpose of this study is to explicate the reasons behind employment of unskilled craft workers in the construction projects from the management level perspective. To meet this purpose, the authors conducted in-depth interview with construction project managers. The results show number of reasons why unskilled craft workers are been hired and the effect of specialized certificates on hiring the craft workers

Determining the relationship between conflict factors and performance of international construction projects

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyad Zouher Al-Sibaie ◽  
Ali Mohammed Alashwal ◽  
Hamzah Abdul-Rahman ◽  
Umi Kalsum Zolkafli
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Path Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
International Construction ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
And Performance

Purpose – Conflict was recognized as a major cause of inefficiency and limited performance of construction projects. Factors pertaining to conflict in construction are vast; however, there have been less recognition of these factors in international construction projects. The purpose of this paper is to provide in-depth understanding of conflict in this context and analyze how it influences project performance. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 161 professionals working in Malaysian companies, which are undertaking construction projects overseas. Findings – Analyzing the data using factor analysis revealed six new factors of conflict: external, internal, control-related, knowledge-related, mismanagement, and social conflicts. Further analysis of the data using partial least squares-path modeling (PLS-PM) affirmed a significant relationship between project performance and two factors of conflict only: internal and social. The results also showed that conflict contributes to about 27 percent of the variance in project performance. Originality/value – This paper provided a clear picture for project managers and team members about specific aspects of conflict and how to mitigate them to attain better performance of international construction projects.

scholarly journals Influence of Critical Success Factors over the Performance of Infrastructure Projects in Qatar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Hussain Abal-Seqan ◽  
Shaligram Pokharel ◽  
Khalid Kamal Naji
Keyword(s):  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Top Management Support ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Project Success Criteria

This thesis focuses on developing an understanding of factors that can help in increasing the project performance in Qatar and elsewhere. The understanding leads to focus on factors in the design, development and operation of the project. This research identifies 23 critical success factors in four different groups: top management support, project manager’s skills, project team’s skills, and stakeholder management knowledge. The work also identifies four main project success criteria: project delivery on time, within the budget, with the expected quality, and meeting stakeholder's satisfaction.

scholarly journals Understanding the Hiring Issues of the Craft Workers in the UAE’s Construction Labor Market: Project Managers Perspective

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Mohammed Albattah ◽  
Amna Shibeika ◽  
Muhammad Sami Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Completion ◽  
Labor Issues

The construction industry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is faced with negative project performance, including low productivity, higher costs, delays in project completion, and defects during construction. One of the main reasons for these issues is the engagement of unskilled craft workers. Despite these labor issues, demand for construction projects in the UAE has been explosively increasing, in part due to Dubai winning the hosting of Expo 2020, which has given rise to an unprecedented demand for skilled construction craft workers. This study aimed to investigate the views and experiences of construction project managers regarding the reasons and challenges associated with the hiring of skilled craft workers in the construction labor market of the UAE. To fulfill the study purpose, the authors conducted structured open-ended interviews with UAE construction project managers. The results revealed several reasons for hiring craft workers despite a clear lack of qualifications and suggest some potential solutions.

scholarly journals Measuring the Influence of Communication Planning Towards Construction Project Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Feliks Setiawan ◽  
Seng Hansen ◽  
Antonius Fujiono
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Construction Project ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Communication Planning

Abstract Effective communication is necessary for the success of construction project performance. Due to its nature, effective communication is required to coordinate all parties involved in construction projects such as owners, project managers, engineers, subcontractors, etc. Few previous studies have addressed the issues of construction project communication, particularly in the communication planning stage. This paper aimed to investigate how far the communication planning has been effectively implemented in several construction projects in Jakarta and measure how big the influence to project performance. It adopts a quantitative method by distributing questionnaire surveys to contractors and consultants in Jakarta. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data which presents that communication planning has been implemented by 78.02 % of the responses and significantly impact the project performances. This paper offers useful implications for practitioners on how construction project teams (from contractors and consultants) should carefully manage the communication process particularly during its planning stage.

PREDICTING COST CONTINGENCY FOR PRIVATE PROJECTS: CASE STUDY IN VIETNAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYEN TUAN KIET ◽  
SOO-YONG KIM ◽  
VAN TRUONG LUU ◽  
LE VAN HUNG ◽  
LE HUU DAT
Keyword(s):  
Cost Estimation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Quality Cost ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Forecasting Method ◽  
The Cost

Actual cost in construction projects has tended to exceed the project budgets. Thus, cost contingency from the initial of the project is the significant budget to complete project activities. Cost contingency is an important element of  cost estimation to protect project stakeholders such as owners, contractors, and architects from the risks of the project. This paper reviewed the previous studies to find the factors affecting cost contingency and proposed a regression model to predict the cost contingency for private projects in Vietnam. Through industry survey, project performance information from a total of 48 private projects in Vietnam was gathered. The research also compared with other studies to have an overview about cost contingency predicting methods. The key benefit of this research is that the project managers can use this model as another forecasting method to get a better quality cost management. The further research can be focused on developing the model for other project types in Vietnam.

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