A Study on Construction Equipment Planning and Management Problems in Road Construction Project (A Case Study: The Addis Ababa City Roads Authority
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ambo, Alemayewu (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mathewos, Mekdim | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-03T08:34:24Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-11T08:29:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-03T08:34:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-11T08:29:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Construction equipment is one of the major resources in the construction process for construction companies through the mechanized construction of road projects. Construction equipment planning and management practice lack the necessary policy to meet the standard. As result, many road projects in Ethiopia experienced time overrun, cost overrun and low quality. In this respect, this study tries to identify the problems of construction equipment planning and management, its causes and negative effects for road projects. The research focuses on construction equipment planning and management policies, like construction equipment selection, acquisition, operation, maintenance and disposal or replacement; leading construction equipment management in general and equipment productivity in particular. The data collection method is integrated questionnaire, interview and case study. Samples for the study have considered the whole population of Grade one contractors, AACRA own force road construction department and equipment renting companies majorly participating in AACRA road construction projects. In this thesis, a descriptive and inferential statistical data analysis has been used. Interpretations and discussions were made on the basis of result from the analysis. According to the result from analysis, the research comes up with the following conclusions. Most respondents believe that their companies have no documented construction equipment planning and management policy; the result indicated that idle time, down time, poor equipment maintenance practices are some of major problems that affect construction equipment planning and management in AACRA projects during planning and construction process; huge capital investment during acquisition phase, poor maintenance practices with improper determination of economic life and timing for replacement are the major causes of construction equipment planning and management problems. Cost overrun is the first ranked among the negative effects of construction equipment planning and management problem. As proved by case study, the actual equipment productivity rate is below half of its capacity. This study further provides recommendations like develop equipment planning and management policy to reduce problems on construction equipment planning and management in general and loss on equipment productivity in particular. Key words: Equipment planning and management; Equipment productivity & OEE | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/5807 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Equipment planning and management | en_US |
| dc.subject | Equipment productivity & OEE | en_US |
| dc.title | A Study on Construction Equipment Planning and Management Problems in Road Construction Project (A Case Study: The Addis Ababa City Roads Authority | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |