Assessment of the Critical Success Factors in the Case of Selected Building Construction Projects in Hawasa
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2021-06-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Building construction has been one of the fastest-growing segments of the construction industry in
Ethiopian. But most of construction projects, especially which are undertaken by local contractors were
poor in accordance with time, cost and quality. Even though there are numerous factors, which affect the
building construction projects, this research is aimed to assess and study four critical success factors,
which influence success of building construction projects. Namely: Time, cost, quality, and project
management competency. The four critical factors were identified from the widespread application of
project management concepts and general understanding amongst practitioners. And twenty-five
construction projects were selected as unit of analysis for this study.
Descriptive research design was used to assess the critical success factors in the selected construction
projects. Primary and secondary data were also used for the achievement of the study. A structured
questionnaire was developed to gather information to assess and analysis the critical success factors,
which affect the success of building construction projects. And other significant project management
practices were also captured in relevant literature. Seventy-five questioners were distributed and only
fifty-five of the respondents were responded the questionnaires. Then the data obtained from the
distributed questionnaires was analyzed using SPSS 24 software. Descriptive statistics were used to
analyze and interpret the data found from the respondents. The findings show that the assessment of the
practice level of the identified factors within the building construction companies resulted in a high level
of mean score values. And all the factors that are considered as critical success factors (project manager
competency, time, cost, and quality related factors) have a great contribution to the successful
completion of a project and are being practiced within the companies under study. And from all the
identified success factors, project manager competency related a critical success factor has the highest
mean value. So the research recommend for building construction companies to emphasis more on the
competency of their construction project manager. So that they can resolve cost, quality, and time
related problems.
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Building construction project success, cost, quality, project manager competency