| dc.description.abstract | ABSTRACT
The Principle objective of this project was to establish the major causes of delays in projects implementation in the construction industry in Kenya. The study delimited itself my limiting the scope into the roads maintained /constructed by the KeNHA in the Coast region of Kenya. This was deeply looked at by taking into account four major objectives that included: to establish the extent to which construction project financing influence the delay of construction projects in the road sector, to investigate the extent to which construction project planning influence the delay of construction projects in the road sector, to find out the extent to which Contractor’s experience influences the delay of construction projects in the road sector, and ,to investigate the extent to which supervision of work influences the delay of construction projects in the road sector. The study employed a survey research design, since it was an in depth investigation of an individual group of respondents. The questionnaires were used as the main source of gathering information from selected 55 respondents that cut a cross categories like Contractors, Surveyors, Engineers and many more. These questionnaires were emailed to some respondents; others were dropped and picked later while some were administered by research assistants. Questionnaires were sorted out, data keyed in into the SPSS for analysis. This information then was presented by use of frequency tables. From the hypothesis testing using the Chi-Square, the calculated Chi-Square values were found to be greater than the critical value of 9.488 thus the alternative hypotheses were adopted in all the four cases as per the objectives. Findings have shown that there is a significant link between the objectives discussed in the literature review and what is seen in chapter four and as it is entirely proven by the hypothesis that has been tested. Therefore, from the findings on the first objective that aimed at establishing the extent to which construction project financing influence the delay of construction projects in the road sector and the responses gotten showing that, 5 respondents agreed with the idea that the road projects have been allocated enough finances, 45 went for no while those who were not sure made 7.4% of the responses, bringing the total to 4 respondents. First and foremost, the study recommends that the national government should increase the budgetary allocation to KeNHA. Secondly, the study recommends that KeNHA should undergo proper and checked planning at all levels in order to achieve timely deliveries. The third recommendation is that the experience of the contractors should be scrutinized, their track records be well understood and proper procedures of testing these contractor’s experience be checked. Finally, the study recommends that supervision should be continuous and in fact it should be made a daily activity. Absentee supervisors shouldn’t be even allowed to take part in any road construction in the country. | |
