Construction Project Management Practice in Ethiopia: The Case of Ethiopian Federal Road Construction Projects
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Road infrastructure is one of the significant components of construction and has great contribution to attain sustainable development of the country economy. In construction of road projects most of the study shows construction project management in Ethiopia has at low level of achievement and it is mainly described by excessive time overrun, cost overrun & quality problems. Hence, to fill the gaps this research conducted to assess construction project management practice & to identify the critical factors that affected the project performance in terms of time, cost, quality & Scope. In this regard data gathered from the targeted population of the client, contractor, and consultant of managers and engineers who are better experienced on the areas. In the total of 40 questionnaires were collected, by interviewing in mixed research approaches and analyzed data using Microsoft office. The investigation on practice of time, cost, quality and scope management revealed that, time and cost management found at critical low level, but quality and scope found medium to acceptable level of practice. In addition, by investigating the real extent of time and cost overruns of the road construction projects, secondary data collected from 84 road projects which are awarded to Ethiopian contractors from beginning of 2018 to end of 2022 which are the projects under construction and by taking their recent cumulative progress the data analyzed by using Microsoft Office Excel 2019. The investigation found that 100% of the road construction projects are behind the schedule and their average rate of time overrun is 38%. Regarding to cost overrun the study found the total additional cost variation granted are 2.28 billion ETB or 1.85% of total initial contract amount of the projects. The other and the critical cause of cost overrun is cost of price adjustment related to price escalation of major construction materials, equipment’s and exchange rate. Which caused increment of cost in monthly base and in previous 5 years ERA spent on average 68% of additional cost for price adjustment related to price escalation of the aforementioned items. Related to the above data the study identified and summarized the top critical causes of time overrun, cost overrun, quality problems & Scope change. In addition, based on the findings the researcher forwarded his recommendation for subsequent improvement
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Road Construction Project