Abstract:
Many building construction projects in Ethiopia are not completed within the planned time,
budget, quality, safety, profit, and customer satisfaction and the sector is suffering from
performance challenges. One of the pillar causes of this is project planning in many cases is
not implemented well in the building construction industry. Therefore, this research was aimed
at construction planning practices assessment to minimize performance challenges in Bahrdar
building construction projects. The targeted population of the study was contractors,
consultants, and clients selected through simple random sampling. Data had been collected
through questionnaire surveys as well as interviews and then analyzed using the mean score,
Analysis of Variance, regression, Spearman's rho Correlation Coefficient, and Cronbach alpha
coefficient was used to check internal consistency. A statistical analysis of the data had been
done using Statistical Package for Social Science and Microsoft-excel software. The result
showed that there was a low practice of construction planning in building construction projects
and this leads to increase performance challenges such as increasing project completion time,
leading to cost overrun, low overall safety performance, low quality, low team management,
low customer satisfaction, and low profitability performance. It concludes that construction
planning practice has a direct relationship with construction performance challenges. Effective
implementation of construction planning has a very high contribution to minimizing
performance challenges of construction projects. The study recommended that building
construction companies and construction stakeholders should practice all the construction
planning knowledge areas properly according to the developed plan.
