CONSTRUCTION PLANNING PRACTICE ASSESSMENT TO MINIMIZE PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES IN BAHRDAR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

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.