Investigation and Analysis of Factor Affecting Cost Overrun For Bridge Construction

Abstract

Construction duration and the cost of project at the closing date are the two important criteria to describe a construction project as successful. Most civil engineering large projects, regularly, have delays and cost overruns. Also most of the construction projects are facing with low quality, and health and safety accidents during construction. A questionnaire was undertaken to investigate factor affecting cost overrun for construction. In this project the result of the questionnaire was summarized and discussed. Major factors affecting the success of a construction project categories in the questionnaire and they were ranked with respect to the frequency and importance indices separately. It was obtained that, inadequate contractor experience, poor supervision and site management, shortage of skilled labor, financial difficulties of contractor were the most important causes of delay, cost overrun, low quality, and health & safety problems on the construction sites.

Introduction

I. INTRODUCTION

The Indian construction industry contributes more than five percent (5%) to the country’s GDP. Construction industry includes railways, highways, ports, bridges, tunnels, power plants, municipal facilities etc. Timely completion of construction projects is a display of efficient planning, management and construction. A project is measured to be successful if it is complete on time and within budget.

Bridges construction industry is considered as one of the most dynamic and risky industrial sector. Also, an important key parameter to make a project successful is considered to be the budget required for the project. Many authors have suggested that risk cost should be adopted as an evaluation scale. In unkindness of the importance of this factor, construction industry is full of projects that functionally operate with extensive cost flooded. Considerable financial loss to project participant is generated by cost overflow in construction project.

II. OBJECTIVES

1. To perform questionnaire survey to obtain factors affecting the cost overruns for bridge construction projects.
2. Ranking of cost overrun factors for the bridge construction projects.
3. To formulate recommendations for improving cost performance in bridge construction projects

III. DATA COLLECTION

A. Research Methodology

The research methodology contains two stages. The primary stage included a literature search and interviews. The literature review was conducted through internet and project management journals, gathering procedures, books. As the result of this stage, 30 factors affecting cost overrun for bridge construction were identified. These factors were categories in nine groups as: Finance related, Contract related, Planning related, Design related, Material, Labour and equipment related, Owner related, Contractor related, Consultant related and Miscellaneous.

B. Questionnaire Design

Likert interval Scale is used for preparing the questionnaire survey is being implemented to determine the view of, clients, consultant, designers and contractors relating the cost overrun factors. This questionnaire is being delivered to contracting, project management consultant and client representatives, who has associated or currently associated with flyover bridge projects.

IV. DATA ANALYSIS

Data analysis is the highly complex work and manipulation analysis with simple instruction SPSS software is uses by market researchers, survey companies, marketing, research education and other

A. Top 10 Cost Overrun Factors

Table 1 Top 10 Cost Overrun Factors

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics

V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Assistant Professor Nimita Gujar for enlightening me at the first glance of research, and for his patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. His guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my project work. I am extremely thankful to Dr. Bhavesh Mewada, Principal, PIET for providing me infrastructural facilities to work in, without which this work would not have been possible. I would also like to thank our concrete lab assistant Harshad Kapadi  and Anup Kude for their support whenever I needed. At the last but not least I would like to thanks my all the teacher and friends to helping me.

Conclusion

A structured questionnaire survey approach was used to study the impact of various attributes and factors affecting construction projects performance for the factors analysis in flyover bridge construction industry. thirty (30) factors were considered in this study and were listed under groups based on relevant literature review and data collected. 58 questionnaires were distributed as follows: (58 Forms were distributed among different engineer who were releated to flyover bridge construction were received as respondents. Among them 44 forms were respondent. The results were analyzed, discussed to identify the most important factors, in which Likert 5-point Scale was used for preparing the feedback form spss tool was used for the analysis to determine clients, consultants and contractors perception of construction projects of flyover bridge According to the questionnaire was prepared send to clients, consultants and contractors, engineers and data was collected to analysis the factors for flyover bridge construction

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