Construction Contract Administration Practices of the New Head Quarter Design-Build (DB) Project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia

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2017-06

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Addis Ababa University

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This project work is about the assessment on the practices of project contract administration of the New Head quarter Design-Build project of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia where the concept of contract administration comes a long way in the practices of project undertaking. Thus, the researcher came up with a major research gap of which the effectiveness of DB contract administration on the project’s time, cost, quality management and variation of work . In addition, the researcher has further assessed whether this DB project contract Administration has become effective in terms of meeting its objectives of technology transfer and training through the contract administration.. The methodology was designed as semi-structured interviews, focus group discussion and site observation, then later descriptive analysis were made. Different kinds of secondary data were also greatly used as triangulation mechanism. The qualitative research came up with a finding that following the legal bindings, keeping confidentialities, having well experienced professionals on the project doing, is leading the undergoing project to be successful so far with regard to the well administered contract. Moreover, the advantage and disadvantage of the DB project contract Administration which has been newly introduced for the country is properly accessed

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DB Contract Administration, Contractual risk, Design-Build project

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