Building Contract Performance: A Case Study Of Government Projects In Kenya
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Date
1986Author
Mbatha, Christopher M
Type
ThesisLanguage
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The success of any project is determined
mainly by the effectiveness of the procedure used
and by the efficiency of the organizational tools
employed.
Building and construction projects in
general are particularly very sensitive to the
nature of the organizational structure of the
implementation team. This is so because many
different, autonomous and fragmented institutions
are brought together to combine their various
expertise with a comon objective of producing
a structure to the satisfaction of the client.
It is the efficiency of combining their various
activities that generally determines the success
of the project.
In Kenya, many reports have continued to
appear in the local newspapers, professional
journals and even meetings have been held by the
respective institutions on accusations and counter
accusations on the performance of government
building contracts. The concern has been raised
by a few cases of delayed projects which are likely
be the tip of the iceberg, because nobody
has come up with an emperical data to prove their
side of the argument.
Among other methods of measuring contract performance are cost
and time, the success which contributes to yet another measure-client satisfaction
The aim of this study is to establish whether
or not the performance of government building
contracts in terms of cost and time was poor in
the period 1967 - 1981.~ This is done by use of
a statistical technique - regression and
correlation analysis as programmed in Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)•
It is shown that majority of government
building contracts suffer cost and time overruns.
Time overruns are more frequent than cost overruns
and the two are not related. Big projects have
been shown to be more prone to both time and cost
overruns than the smaller ones although delays
have been found to bear no relationship to
contract sizes.
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Master of Arts (Building Management)Publisher
Department of Land Development