Development of Constructability Activity Survey Framework for Malaysian Contractors
Fundamental studies on constructability concept done in United States, United Kingdom and Australia illustrate the capability of this concept to influence the overall objectives of the construction projects. These studies have shown that contractors’ involvement in earlier stages of projects can...
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my-upm-ir.73292013-05-27T07:34:42Z Development of Constructability Activity Survey Framework for Malaysian Contractors 2009-07 Saghatforoush, Ehsan Fundamental studies on constructability concept done in United States, United Kingdom and Australia illustrate the capability of this concept to influence the overall objectives of the construction projects. These studies have shown that contractors’ involvement in earlier stages of projects can lead to noteworthy cost and time savings and better final product quality by considering the contractors’ construction experience in conceptual planning and design phases. This study becomes much more notable since there has not been enough structured researches on this matter in Malaysia which can clarify and differentiate the constructability activities. The present research presents the constructability activities in all project phases separately based on the amount of contractors’ involvement in each activity and also the amount of gap that exists between the target and the actual effects of each activity on achieving the final objectives of the project in Malaysia. As the result, some activities are determined as the more critical activities than the others. Then more explorations are done on the critical ones in order to determine the type of contractors, contracts and projects that are involved in these activities. It also aims to find any significant difference in contractors’ involvement at each activity among various types of contractors, contracts and projects. The data needed to conduct this research is obtained from a questionnaire survey spread among Malaysian G7 building contractors. The acquired data is collected and arranged in tables; Then MCT, MD, ANOVA and T-TEST methods are used as descriptive and analytical methods of analysis. The results of this study show that Malaysian contractors are almost familiar with this term, but based on the barriers of implementing this issue in the projects, they are not able to participate in all of its activities entirely. This reduces the gap between target and actual effects of each activity on gaining the total aims of the project. Then it is found that the critical constructability activities are mostly among the ones in later project phases, which consist of pre-construction and construction phases. Finally, the amount of contractors’ dispersion among various types of contractors, contracts and projects in each critical constructability activity is determined and more explorations to find out the differences among various independent variables are tested. 2009-07 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7329/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7329/1/FK_2009_35a.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Faculty of Engineering English |
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Fundamental studies on constructability concept done in United States,
United Kingdom and Australia illustrate the capability of this concept to
influence the overall objectives of the construction projects. These studies
have shown that contractors’ involvement in earlier stages of projects can
lead to noteworthy cost and time savings and better final product quality by
considering the contractors’ construction experience in conceptual planning
and design phases. This study becomes much more notable since there has
not been enough structured researches on this matter in Malaysia which can
clarify and differentiate the constructability activities.
The present research presents the constructability activities in all project
phases separately based on the amount of contractors’ involvement in each
activity and also the amount of gap that exists between the target and the
actual effects of each activity on achieving the final objectives of the project in Malaysia. As the result, some activities are determined as the more
critical activities than the others. Then more explorations are done on the
critical ones in order to determine the type of contractors, contracts and
projects that are involved in these activities. It also aims to find any
significant difference in contractors’ involvement at each activity among
various types of contractors, contracts and projects.
The data needed to conduct this research is obtained from a questionnaire
survey spread among Malaysian G7 building contractors. The acquired data
is collected and arranged in tables; Then MCT, MD, ANOVA and T-TEST
methods are used as descriptive and analytical methods of analysis.
The results of this study show that Malaysian contractors are almost familiar
with this term, but based on the barriers of implementing this issue in the
projects, they are not able to participate in all of its activities entirely. This
reduces the gap between target and actual effects of each activity on gaining
the total aims of the project. Then it is found that the critical constructability
activities are mostly among the ones in later project phases, which consist of
pre-construction and construction phases.
Finally, the amount of contractors’ dispersion among various types of
contractors, contracts and projects in each critical constructability activity is
determined and more explorations to find out the differences among various
independent variables are tested. |
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