IMPACT OF CRITICAL FACTORS ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Abstract

The local construction industry is facing insurmountable challenges, which caused deterioration day by day. Almost most projects in India face difficulties to achieve the desired results. Many causative factors affect on planning, scheduling, and execution stage during the project life. Many countries have researched, to find out what is the prime cause of delay and cost overrun. Many approaches were added with time to identify and mitigate the root cause of such addressed issue but no one get success to quantify it appropriately. This reason is highly varying viz country to country, region to region. So, need the study thoroughly the condition to mitigate the effect of factors and avoid them. The purpose of this research is to identify and evaluate the critical factors causing an impact on the construction industry. Through a questionnaire survey, total 110 numbers of questionnaires were distributed to the stakeholders like government and private contractors, supervisors, site engineers, and architecture, 62 critical factors causing were identified and divided into five categories. The survey data was analyzed using Cronbach’s alpha for reliability check and utilizing the relative importance index (RII) for the ranking. The study found that the impact of the top ten ranking factors among 62 factors are (1) Late delivery and logistics of materials, (2) Continuous breakdown of

machinery, (3) Lack of experience (Consultant related), (4) Lack of modern equipment, (5) Fluctuation of construction materials prices, (6) Waste generation, (7) Low salary for engineers and construction workers, (8) Lack of experience, (9) Poor site management and supervision,

(10) Poor financial control and management. These findings of the study will help to improve the existing status of the construction industry and to be used as a variable in future prediction models and management.