A Study on the Performance of Housing Projects: A Post Project Evaluation of Branch Two 40/60 Housing Projects in Ethiopia.
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2025-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Integrated Housing Development Program was created as part of the nation's economic development strategy, In order to boost local companies, encourage the use of locally produced building materials, and provide job opportunities. The 40/60 housing scheme is one of the initiatives. The Addis Ababa city administration started the 40/60 saving housing project at reasonable costs for middle-class city citizens in order to address the housing issue. The country's largest city Addis Ababa, is home to a sizable population, and it is anticipated that this population will continue to grow in the near future. This has occasionally led to an increase in the demand for housing, which has resulted in the most complex socioeconomic issues in the city. Since 2013, the IHDP lottery registration system has been inaccessible to new applicants, as there is a waiting list that currently stands more than 800,000. Additionally, previously scheduled IHDP construction developments have been postponed.Ex post evaluation is an assessment technique that emphasizes the project's long-term results. The lack of a system for evaluating building performance is one of the causes for our inability to obtain crucial data on our buildings, which leads to reoccurring errors and ineffective projects. Project assessment can be helpful in demonstrating openness and accountability as well as in allowing lessons learned to be shared in the construction of knowledge and expertise. In this regard this research is conducted to evaluate the performance of the 40/60 housing projects. Beside observed information this research identify and analyse data to determine the performance of the housing projects, to identify the underperformance areas in the housing projects, to investigate factors contributing to underperformance of the housing projects and to identify the post occupation issues or defects of the housing projects.The data is collected from customers, brokers and employees of the organization that are involved in the building construction projects through an interview, questioner , project reports and documents. The housing projects under this research construct in total of 14,724 houses and 4932 shops. Among these buildings 158 of them are delivered and 7,963 numbers of keys are transferred to the owners. In total 737 people benefited from this project employment opportunity and among them 139 of them are women. This projects helps landlords in creating wealth And also help as an option for the peoples who can’t afford the rent and the cost of real-estate apartments. However there is a difference between the number of blocks constructed and transferred, there is also price increment on the buyers in each round which makes accountability and affordability of these condominium houses questionable and also Water leakage, dampness and mold growth are among the common quality problems observed in these projects. Delayed design, delayed contractor payments and time estimates that are unrealistic compared to the actual work are some of the reason mentioned for the observed delays. And the reasons for the difference in quantity among the materials given to the contractor by the government and actual consumption were the standard being not prepared back then, due to inefficient uses of material by contractors, in some cases due to robbery issues and also the change in supervisor in different times from the client side causing a gap in information.
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performance, housing project, post occupation, 40/60housing program, cost, quality, material consumption