Assessment of Construction Project Management Control Practice: The Case of Grade One Building and General Contractors in Addis Ababa
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2018-08-04
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Construction industry in developing countries is struggling from different challenges that can
affect the industry from achiving the intended objective which is to complete the construction
works on time,as per the budget and desired quality.From the different process that help the
industry to be sucessful,the construction control practice of contractors contributes a faire share
in the sucess of the projects.As per the reviewed litratures ,there exist a gap in the construction
control practices in Ethiopian construction industry.Bearing this in mind , this research is
conducted to asses the current construction controlling tools and techniques used by grade one
contractors with respect to the tools and techniques described in PMBOK.The research is of
descriptive type and uses questionnaire and interview as an instrument to collect data.The
analysis of the research shows the percentage and frequency of used construction controlling
techniques.Also in order to rank the techniques that the contractors use, RII is used as a method
of analysis.The finding of the research elaborates that mostly used tools and techniques are
project management software to control time and cost of projects and inspection to control the
quality of construction projects.Also, the finding revealed that different types of controlling
techniques are not used by most of the contractors.Furthermore as per the research,even though
there exists a lack of usage of different construction controlling tools and techniques,the
professionals in the construction firm perceive that they have a good construction controlling
system.From the finding of the research the researcher recommends the contractors to practice
different controlling techniques that best fit their construction projects
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Project,Construction, Contractors, Managment,Control