A new LSM approach for planning repetitive housing projects

Mahdi, Ibrahim M.

doi:10.1016/s0263-7863(03)00071-1

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“…Given the varied nature of PHBPs as against one-off projects, measurement of success significantly differs from place to place and from project to project (Ashely, 1988;Mahdi, 2004). Cost, time and quality has been the primal measure of success but this has been reviewed over the years (Atkinson, 1999).…”

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“…The consideration, details, rentals, requirements and other criteria differ from continent to continent, region to region and country to country (Werna, 1998;Smith, 2006). Public housing projects differ significantly from one-off projects thus requiring well structured management styles for enhanced success in its delivery (Ashely, 1988;Mahdi, 2004;Ahadzie, 2010) The issue of lack of success on public hosuing projects in Ghana has generated a lot of discussions in recent times (Amoa-Mensah, 2011). The determination of clearyly defined success criteria for PHBPs will be of prime importance not only for future schemes but will enable project managers of current shemes channel appropriate efforts and behaviours towards ensuring the attainment of success on their projects.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Determining Critical Project Success Criteria for Public Housing Building Projects (PHBPS) in Ghana

Adinyira¹,

Botchway²,

Kwofie³

2012

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Successive Public Housing Building Project (PHBP) attempts have been unsuccessful due to a number of reasons. Among these is the lack of clearly defined success criteria which guides and measures PHBP success from inception to closure. The adoption and application of project management practice and project success criteria is to deliver projects successfully, attain enhanced output, develop framework to help track key project results and to enable the appropriate allocation of resources. This paper aimed to establish critical success criteria for PHBPs in Ghana. A questionnaire survey was employed to elicit the views of experienced professionals on 13 project success criteria identified from literature. Mean score analysis and factor analysis were conducted on the data collected. The results showed that PHBP practitioners perceive 'cost of individual houses' and 'extensive use of local materials' as the most critical success criteria with 'risk containment' emerging as the least critical criteria. It also revealed the following as the major underlysing factors for critical project success criteria for public housing projects in Ghana;'Time, Cost and Quality Management', 'Satisfaction, Health and Environmental Safety', 'User Affordability and Design Consideration' and 'Cost of Individual Units and Technology'. These two findings are essential for developing a framework which will enable project managers involved in PHBPs in Ghana to channel appropriate efforts and behaviours towards ensuring the attainment of success on their projects.

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Section: Introducationmentioning

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Determining Critical Project Success Criteria for Public Housing Building Projects (PHBPS) in Ghana

Adinyira¹,

Botchway²,

Kwofie³

2012

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“…These limitations include the inability to model continuous and simultaneous work flows of teams on the construction site, which need to be taken into account in case of overlapping, interdependent activities [12,13]. Location-based scheduling methods have been developed to take into account the location of work on the site to avoid conflicts between overlapping activities [14]. However, these methods are limited to a novel visual representation of the activities, and are all defined using the same precedence diagram that is used in CPM, Another important limitation of CPM and other traditional project scheduling methods is the assumption of unlimited resource availability, and the unexpected delays that often occur in projects due to insufficient resources [15].…”

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Real-time Schedule Control

Isaac¹

2016

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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-Numerous previous studies have dealt with the use of automated technologies for on-site, real-time data collection to support construction project control. Most of these studies are based on the assumption, that the collected data can be compared with planning data to identify deviations and implement control actions. However, construction scheduling often focuses on pre-construction forecasting and logistics processes that are carried out by middle management. In contrast, the execution proper is governed by informal short-term scheduling, performed ad-hoc by site management. This reality creates discrepancies between the data provided by automated monitoring technologies and the information that can be obtained from project schedules, in terms of their granularity, scope and underlying assumptions. The aim of this paper is to review existing scheduling methods, and compare their outputs with the data provided by automated monitoring technologies. Ways are proposed in which scheduling methods can be enriched in order to better support monitoring and control processes.

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“…The term mass housing project has dominantly been defined as term purely focusing on the large scale production of housing development projects (see [16][17][18]28]). However, these definitions fail to account for the unique attributes exhibited by mass housing projects.…”

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Nature of Communication Ineffectiveness Inherent in the Procurement Systems on Mass Housing Projects

Kwofie

Adinyira

Fugar

2015

Journal of Construction Engineering

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Mass housing projects (MHPs) are deemed to exhibit unique procurement systems which consequently induce communication ineffectiveness that continues to dominate the challenges among mass housing project teams. However, this acknowledged communication ineffectiveness inherent in the unique procurement system features of mass housing project among the project team remains to be empirically examined. This study seeks to investigate the influence of procurement system (PS) features of MHPs to communication ineffectiveness among the mass housing project team. By adopting a quantitative method design, a structured questionnaire survey on project team leaders managing MHPs in Ghana was used in collecting empirical data. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to explore the communication problems inherent in the PS features of mass housing projects. The results revealed moderate to high effects of communication ineffectiveness in information flow and information composition inherent in the unique PS features of MHPs. The results further revealed misunderstanding, inaccuracies, barriers, and information dissemination challenges as the major communication ineffectiveness induced by the PS features of MHPs. By gaining knowledge and understanding into the communication ineffectiveness associated with these features of MHPs, practitioners are well positioned to plan communication and management strategies to engender success in mass housing delivery.

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A new LSM approach for planning repetitive housing projects

Cited by 27 publications

References 7 publications

Determining Critical Project Success Criteria for Public Housing Building Projects (PHBPS) in Ghana

Determining Critical Project Success Criteria for Public Housing Building Projects (PHBPS) in Ghana

Real-time Schedule Control

Nature of Communication Ineffectiveness Inherent in the Procurement Systems on Mass Housing Projects

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