Establishing Empirical Relationship Between Project Scheduling and Project Success in the Uganda Construction Industry.
Many building construction projects in the Uganda construction industry experience project failures in the sense of not being finished within the scheduled time frame, approved budget, and not meeting the quality standards as per the initial plan. The purpose of this study was to establish empirical...
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Kabale University
2024
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/2278 |
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| Summary: | Many building construction projects in the Uganda construction industry experience project failures in the sense of not being finished within the scheduled time frame, approved budget, and not meeting the quality standards as per the initial plan. The purpose of this study was to establish empirical relationship between project scheduling and project success in the Uganda construction industry. Questionnaires were administered to eighty four targeted respondents. Seventy three respondents were able to return them giving their opinions on the project scheduling practices commonly used in Uganda, their impact level and effectiveness in achieving project success. The data gathered were analyzed using statistical techniques with relative importance index and regression analysis as the bases of analysis. The study identified the project scheduling practices that are commonly used as Gantt chart (RII = 0.992), CPM (RII = 0.940), Resource Levelling (RII = 0.860), PDM (RII = 0.759), and PERT (RII = 0.622), while Agile scheduling methods (RII = 0.614), and line of balance method (RII = 0.296) are least used. This showed that Gantt chart, CPM, resource leveling, PDM, and PERT are the most suitable and widely used. The impact level of the practices was determined as Gantt chart (RII = 0.973), CPM (RII = 0.964), Resource levelling (RII = 0.901), PDM (RII = 0.792), PERT (RII = 0.658), Agile scheduling methods (RII = 0.627) and line of balance method (RII = 0.332). This indicated that Gantt chart, CPM and resource levelling had a very high impact level on building projects, being followed by PDM and PERT. The regression analysis determined that Gantt chart, CPM, and resource levelling were the most significant scheduling practices thus being the most effective in achieving project success. The study recommended that further research should be conducted to investigate the role of technological advancements and emerging trends in project scheduling, such as lean construction, Agile scheduling, and Building Information Modelling (BIM). |
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