Abstract
The construction industry in the State of Kuwait has recently witnessed a rapid growth as the volume of construction projects increased significantly over the past decade. Because of the progress and growth of the industry and the size of the projects, the volume of disputes between the parties to the various contracts has increased accordingly. As projects become larger and more complex, their management and control become more difficult, especially in the absence of effective standard systems to for managing project progress and determining the delay, if any. Even the simple issues, as well as the large ones, if neglected and unaddressed in a timely manner, can cause huge problems that concerns to all project parties. Irrespective of addressing and managing construction delays legally, the resulting legal disputes always have other negative effects on the contracting parties. If the parties to the contract have an insight that enables them to forecast and identify the issues that may cause a conflict before it occurs, that eliminates a myriad of problems before they occur, and greatly reduces the chances of further conflict between contracting parties. This paper presents a framework for a novel progress reporting system that can help minimize contract disputes in the state of Kuwait.
Highlights
The methods for project cost and schedule performance monitoring have been largely explored
This paper presents a framework for a novel progress reporting system that can help minimize contract disputes in the state of Kuwait
The responses from the collected samples can be summarized in the following table: The contracting parties need for progress reports to know the status of a project: Percentage of Needs
Summary
The methods for project cost and schedule performance monitoring have been largely explored. With the aid of a comprehensive work breakdown structure, efficient progress control is needed to complete project on time and according to the required quality. The weak link of detailed progress monitoring and control is the manual data collection, which is time consuming and labor intensive. Existing project management software package, such as Primavera, have simple modules with bidirectional links to hand-held devices for site data collection, but even they require that the data be collected manually from daily progress reports [2]
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