All over the world the situation in construction projects seems to be very similar. Many projects have a cost and time overflow because the collaboration between construction project stakeholders is poor. There appears to be no clear understanding of collaboration features, therefore making it difficult to effectively interact and achieve common project goals within the bounds of cost, quality, and time. The purpose of the paper is to identify and give quantitative assessment of the effects such features have on performance of construction project. Nine (9) features of collaboration were identified from detail review of past literature and were used in the questionnaires in order to ascertain the extent of their effect on performance of projects within the construction industry. The Three (3) traditional measures (cost, time and quality) of construction performance were used for the measurement of project performance. Data on the questionnaires were gathered from 39 respondents (project managers). The study respondents were provided five options in the form of a Likert Scale ranging from 1(very low extent), 2 (of low extent), 3 (of moderate), 4 (high extent) and (of extremely high extent). Analysis of the obtained data indicated that Six key features of collaboration; Mutual trust, common goal, information sharing, effective communication, commitment and openness has very high extent effect on the overall performance of construction projects, considering their mean values are within the range of (3.5 – 4.49).
Collaboration, Construction project performance and collaborative features
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