Suitability of the Critical Incident Technique to Measure Quality of Construction Coordination

Saram, D. Darshi De; Ahmed, Syed M.; Anson, M.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0742-597x(2004)20:3(97)

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“…However, traditional management system in construction has been carried out informally and leads to difficulty in managing the communication and coordination of construction participants. This claim is supported by Saram et al (2009) who note that management mode in construction has been carried out in informal approach. Crichton (1966) also further claims that the informal management has drawn from direct surveillance at work and confers on the works they were doing.…”

Section: Construction Management Approachsupporting

confidence: 57%

“…This situation is further complicated by the fact that most project participants carry out their function roles in purpose only in low repetitive nature of the working process (Saram et al, 2009). The reluctance of learning the new skills led to no skills development, whilst they are found difficulty in every new project.…”

Section: Uniqueness and Low Repetitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One construction project may possibly make up to thousand of activities (Saram et al, 2009), from substructure work to the external work. Every single activity requires the input of participants who have different and sole roles as well as technical expertise.…”

Section: Complexity and Intangibility Of Project Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In such varying processes, project personnel find it difficult to discern the longterm relationships and objectives, which may emerge in previous cooperated project. They are trying to identify customers' and stakeholders' expectations (Saram et al, 2009) and cause the poor communication and fail to understand correctly, eventually leading to poor quality of construction end products.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Conceptual Study of Key Barriers in Construction Project Coordination

Hai¹,

Yusof²,

Ismail³

et al. 2012

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The complexity of the nature of construction makes it one of the most adverse businesses that has ever existed. Construction projects have often suffered from high fragmentation, large waste, poor productivity, cost and time overruns, and conflicts and disputes for a long time. Thus, many new and innovative management and procurement systems in construction are introduced such as partnering, joint venture, alliances, supply chain management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), just in time (JIT), and total quality management (TQM) to meet these challenges. However, these construction management and procurement systems are meaningless without coordination, a vital managerial principle and activity, which provides the best cooperation among team members. Although coordination plays crucial functions throughout the building process especially during the design and construction stages, some failures in construction projects adopting coordination principles are still observed. Hence, a study is carried out to investigate the key barriers of coordination in construction project. Through the literature review, five groups of key barriers are established in this paper, including the nature of construction, traditional contractual arrangement, construction participants, characteristic of organization and construction management approach. The investigation of these key barriers is expected to assist the construction players in coordinating their projects towards a better implementation of the innovative management and procurement systems. Lastly, worthwhile new research topics are suggested by this paper in developing the coordination key performance indicator (KPI) and critical success factor on construction project for further studies.

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Section: Construction Management Approachsupporting

confidence: 57%

Section: Uniqueness and Low Repetitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Complexity and Intangibility Of Project Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Uniqueness and Low Repetitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Conceptual Study of Key Barriers in Construction Project Coordination

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Yusof²,

Ismail³

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“…The practicality of CIT in construction research has been demonstrated in several studies (e.g. De Saram et al, 2004, Kaulio, 2008. Its use here therefore arises from its appropriateness for the problem of study and the demonstrated reliability, validity and practicality, especially in construction specific studies.…”

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confidence: 99%