Limitations in Current Construction Practices of Public Sector Building Projects in Sindh

Abstract

Undivided attention is being driven by construction productivity in today’s era. The main and the foremost concern of any organization is its construction productivity. The discovery of factors impacting construction productivity has been the subject of much research. For a very long time, research has sought to identify the key elements influencing building productivity in various nations. Continuous work in this approach has led academics to identify a wide range of factors. While the subject of this paper is however has been limited to Sindh province of Pakistan only. The construction industry of Pakistan is swelling with each passing day thus construction productivity is of the major concern. This paper aims at exposing the key weakness in current construction practices being employed in various building projects of Sindh. For this purpose, 135 questionnaires, after a rich literature survey, were distributed among the industry experts and the obtained results were analyzed and then ranked in Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). It was revealed through the results that 10 factors chiefly influence the construction productivity which are shortage of unskilled labor, payment delay, less salary, insufficient modern tools, delay in delivery of material at site, material shortage and quality, labor absenteeism, equipment breakdown, experience of contractor and construction technology. At the end of the study, it is recommended that a framework maybe developed based upon the factors given above to improve the construction productivity of the building projects of Sindh.

Country : Pakistan

1 Jazib Bashir Shaikh2 Dr. Nafees Ahmed Memon3 Anees Ahmed Vighio4 Aftab Hameed Memon5 Zubair Ahmed

  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh 76020, Pakistan
  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh 76020, Pakistan
  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh 76020, Pakistan
  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering & Technology, Nawabshah, Sindh 67480, Pakistan
  5. Department of Civil Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh 76020, Pakistan

IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2023 pp. 18-24

doi.org/10.47001/IRJIET/2023.701005

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