Analysis of Variance of the Effects of a Project’s Location on Key Issues and Challenges in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Projects

Ismail, Dzulkarnaen; Majid, Taksiah A.; Roosli, Ruhizal

doi:10.3390/economies5040046

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“…P value of the contact time and dosage are less than 0.05. Their f value is also high, which is an indication that the contact time and adsorbent dosage have a significant effect on the percentage removal of Cr (VI) from textile effluent; for pH, the P value is higher than 0.05 and the f value is low, which shows that the factor is not statistically significant (Elleta et al., 2018; Brereton, 2018, Zhou, & Skidmore, 2017; Ismail et al, 2017).…”

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Biosorption of chromium (VI) from textile waste water using luffa cylindrica activated carbon

Nwosu‐Obieogu

Okolo

2020

Environmental Quality Mgmt

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Luffa cylindrica was applied as a low-cost adsorbent for removing chromium (VI) from textile industry effluent in this study. The adsorbent was characterized using scanning electron micrograph (SEM). A batch mode experiment was conducted to study the effect of pH, contact time, and adsorbent dosage on the adsorptive potential of the prepared luffa cylindrica activated carbon. The characterization results from SEM indicate that the adsorbents' potential was fully exploited in this study. A significance test conducted using ANOVA indicated that contact time and adsorbent dosage had the most effect on the adsorptive removal of Cr (VI). The optimum removal efficiency was 99.90% at pH 8.0, 99.8% at 60 min of contact time, and 99.82% at an adsorbent dosage of 1.0 g. The experimental results were analyzed using the Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption isotherm models, and the Freundlich isotherm provided a better correlation for Cr (VI) adsorption. The kinetic data by the pseudo-first-order kinetic model gave a better fit than the pseudo-second-order kinetic model.

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Biosorption of chromium (VI) from textile waste water using luffa cylindrica activated carbon

Nwosu‐Obieogu

Okolo

2020

Environmental Quality Mgmt

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“…The ineffective management of these challenges may lead to ineffective delivery of the projects and hamper the intended outcomes. The challenges as studied by various authors are: following regulations related to the construction of Project Moloney (2014), Boen (2006), Nazara and Resosudarmo (2007) Moe and Pathranarakul (2006), rising costs of materials and labour Hidayat and Egbu (2010), Ismael et al (2017). The challenges are in meeting the needs of the sudden increase in labour, and the fact that local natural resources are in scarce supply (e.g.…”

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Project management challenges for post-disaster reconstruction projects in Angola: a public sector perspective

Sospeter

Rwelamila

Gimbi³

2020

IJMPB

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PurposeDespite the extensive research on post-disaster reconstruction projects (PDRP), there is a paucity of studies that examine critical challenges for the project practices in post-war-developing countries, particularly, Africa. The purpose of this research is to investigate the key project management challenges impacting the post-disaster reconstruction projects (PDRP) during the construction and planning stages in Angola, with an aim to fill the knowledge gap.Design/methodology/approachThe primary data was collected from 130 project management practitioners working with planning, provincial government organisations including consultants, and contractors within the Angolan public sectors organisations. Response data was subjected to descriptive statistics, mean scores, and inferential statistics (One sample t-tests) and Kendall's concordance.FindingsThe descriptive and empirical analysis demonstrated a disparity of the ranking of the 21challenges affecting the PDRP among the groups; with statistically significant differences amongst the 10 challenges. Based on the overall sample, 6 out of 10 critical challenges are between (24–25) levels of agreement close to the mean. The results of the mean score ranking indicate that “working with poor or restricted access to location”, “project culture that fits the needs of local people”; “improving the capacity of local government”, “minimizing the negative effects of local people” and “relocation issues by establishing property rights during the reconstruction project” were the five critical challenges to managing PDRP whereas “improving information and communication processes”, “securing adequate resources (material and machinery)”, “dealing with rising costs of materials and labour” were considered to be the least critical.Research limitations/implicationsThe study was restricted to one province and Country (out of 18) namely, Luanda, Angola. Therefore, the findings may not be generalized to public sector organisations operating in different countries with different contexts, political settings and disaster complexities.Practical implicationsThe establishment of challenges in PDRPs helps the key stakeholders by providing the foundation to project teams to address the challenges during planning and construction stages, and thus improving project delivery in the future. Understanding the uniqueness of PDRPs and interdependency of project management from the implementing organization is of particular value for the managers of future projects and other decision-makers, especially in the emerging countries. Moreover, the findings could be used to reflect on the need to formulate policies appropriate to post disaster environments, which among other issues could address building policies, which could include land ownership regulations and procedures together with property rights.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the body of knowledge on the subject within a previously unexplored post-war context with a focus on public organizations perspective. The study provides insights on the challenges affecting the post-disaster reconstruction across the Angolan public sector.

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“…Post disaster reconstruction directly affected by the location of the destructed area due to its effects on the funding amount, less in the technical manpower and resources [2]. While the community participation has a major role in the process of housing reconstruction after the disaster, it had become necessary to focus on it and collect more information about it when reconstruct [10].…”

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“…Anyway, the barriers of the post disaster reconstruction are everywhere, but the differences are in the type of challenges. Ismail, et al [2] showed that community participation, assessment, funding and quality of work are the main challenges of the post disaster reconstruction in many countries around Indonesia. That's why some development plans should be prepared for such disasters insect, some temporary construction should be done after catastrophes to help people to have some settlement [3].…”

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Post Disaster Housing Reconstruction after 2014 Gaza Strip’s Conflict: Influencing Factors

Tayeh¹

2019

CERJ

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Housing reconstruction projects are complex in nature because of the many stages and also the many stakeholders they have. The objective of this study is to investigate the main factors influencing the reconstruction process of the housing sector following the Gaza Strip conflict in 2014. A literature review was conducted and factors affecting housing reconstruction were extracted. A questionnaire was developed by identifying the most important and reliable factors that achieve the research objective. Seven sets of factors were identified to facilitate the analysis of 64 factors with the help of a pre-test for the questionnaire with the help of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in the Gaza Strip. 98 questionnaires were distributed, but only 90 questionnaires were collected. SPSS was used to analyze factors and relative important index (RII) was the tool that ranked the factors. The main influencing group was "Factors Related to Institutions Involved in Reconstruction Projects", but at the bottom of the ranking was the "Governmental Factors".The study concluded that the factors associated with institutions such as the international organization are the main key to support housing reconstruction in the Gaza Strip, which is clear in the case of the Gaza Strip as a developing country. The increasing efficiency of reconstruction will be illustrated by highlighting factors related to institutional participation, such as differences in experience among participants, especially engineers, sustainable machinery support, manpower with different experience, understanding of legislation and policies by engineers, each participant should have a good practice to manage any issue of reconstruction and a prepared a plan to mitigate the risk of post-disaster in the future. And other important factors for the other groups were determined for more efficient work when reconstruct such as having efficiency of the management of the government, emergency plans by the parties who concern of reconstructing the Gaza Strip, fitting between donors conditions and beneficiaries' needs, prepared program by the government to deal with these projects, effective role of municipality, effective disaster assessment to figure out the appropriate amount of funds, efficiency in defining the responsibilities for every participant in these projects and considering the justice when giving the priority to reconstruct to the beneficiaries.

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Analysis of Variance of the Effects of a Project’s Location on Key Issues and Challenges in Post-Disaster Reconstruction Projects

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Biosorption of chromium (VI) from textile waste water using luffa cylindrica activated carbon

Biosorption of chromium (VI) from textile waste water using luffa cylindrica activated carbon

Project management challenges for post-disaster reconstruction projects in Angola: a public sector perspective

Post Disaster Housing Reconstruction after 2014 Gaza Strip’s Conflict: Influencing Factors

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