Abstract
Civil engineering projects trigger the economic growth by providing infrastructure facilities and job opportunities as well as attracting the attention of foreign investments. Due to their significant contributions toward the nation growth, the performance of civil engineering projects has become the upmost concern by the government. Unfortunately, many civil engineering projects in Malaysia are dominantly associated with unsatisfactory performance in terms of cost, time and quality of the delivered products. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the underlying causes which lead to unsatisfactory performance by determining the factors affecting civil engineering projects. The objective of this paper is to identify the civil engineering project characteristics and the quality of Standard Form of Contract (SFoC) adopted and the contractual behaviour of key participants of civil engineering project which affecting the performance. Questionnaires survey were conducted to undertake the research. 124 feedbacks received out of 300 questionnaires distributed to the G7 contractors registered under Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and consultant engineer registered under Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). The data was statistically analysed using SPSS 21 and descriptive analysis was used for rank assessment of factors. It was found that the top three (3) most significant factors affecting civil engineering project performance are delay in making payment, environment uncertainty and the clarity of SFoC. These factors belong to three categories i.e the contractual behaviour of key participants, project characteristics and the quality of SFoC category. Thus, these categories are paramount to be put more concern on the performance of civil engineering projects in Malaysia.
Highlights
Civil engineering structures are undeniable important to a nation
Due to lack of evidence in literature on the characteristics of civil engineering that influence the project performance, this study identified project characteristics variables gained from literature that are appropriate to be utilized to describe the characteristics of civil engineering project
The quality of Standard Form of Contract (SFoC) and performance criteria from variety types of construction project were intensively reviewed in order to select the most appropriate variables of project characteristics, the quality of SFoC and performance criteria to be used for the civil engineering project
Summary
Civil engineering structures are undeniable important to a nation. Other than facilitating the human daily businesses, the civil engineering structures such as roads, highways, dams, bridges, airports, ports serve the country’s development by underpinning the economic and linking social activities. Realizing the important roles of civil engineering structures towards the growth of the nation, the delivery of project on time and satisfactory quality within a reasonable cost become the expectation of the public. The aforementioned studies only explored on the specific angles on the civil engineering project performance, but do not established a holistic measurement attributes which to be used to measure the project performance. This provides impetus to contribute to study on the performance of civil engineering projects in Malaysia. The performance of construction projects is discussed mainly focusing on the time, cost and quality [9], [10], and [11] this study adopted the same performance indicator since these three indicators are universally acceptance as the main performance indicators in all field of studies as well as stated and ranked as the most important indicators for many types of construction projects by many researchers [12], [3], [13] [1] and [14]
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