Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria

Rework has become a menace in Nigerian construction industry and it has not been given required attention, it contributes to time and cost overruns in project. Hence, to improve the performance of projects the research work evaluated rework in some selected building projects in Niger State. The w...

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Main Authors: L.O. Oyewobi, D.R. Ogunsemi
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM 2010
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description Rework has become a menace in Nigerian construction industry and it has not been given required attention, it contributes to time and cost overruns in project. Hence, to improve the performance of projects the research work evaluated rework in some selected building projects in Niger State. The work identified some factors contributing to rework which was categorized under three main headings; technical, quality and human resources factors to actually dig down into the casual of rework. A structure questionnaire was self administered on projects identified to have experienced rework amongst the selected projects and these were ranked according to their perceived degree of severity. Response was further condensed using factor analysis to group the variables into identifiable factors and thus analyzed. The study revealed that sub-standard services rendered by professionals and lack of commitment to quality in term of project delivery by stakeholders are the main source of rework. Therefore, it was recommended that an improvement and total commitment to quality of services render and assurance would lead to a reduction in the occurrence of reworks as revealed by the research.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:25132016-12-14T06:31:50Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2513/ Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria L.O. Oyewobi, D.R. Ogunsemi, Rework has become a menace in Nigerian construction industry and it has not been given required attention, it contributes to time and cost overruns in project. Hence, to improve the performance of projects the research work evaluated rework in some selected building projects in Niger State. The work identified some factors contributing to rework which was categorized under three main headings; technical, quality and human resources factors to actually dig down into the casual of rework. A structure questionnaire was self administered on projects identified to have experienced rework amongst the selected projects and these were ranked according to their perceived degree of severity. Response was further condensed using factor analysis to group the variables into identifiable factors and thus analyzed. The study revealed that sub-standard services rendered by professionals and lack of commitment to quality in term of project delivery by stakeholders are the main source of rework. Therefore, it was recommended that an improvement and total commitment to quality of services render and assurance would lead to a reduction in the occurrence of reworks as revealed by the research. Penerbit UKM 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2513/1/paper01.pdf L.O. Oyewobi, and D.R. Ogunsemi, (2010) Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria. Journal of Building Performance, 1 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 2180-2106 http://www.ukm.my/~jsb/jbp/index.html
spellingShingle L.O. Oyewobi,
D.R. Ogunsemi,
Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria
title Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria
title_full Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria
title_fullStr Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria
title_short Factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in Nigeria
title_sort factors influencing reworks occurrence in construction: a study of selected building projects in nigeria
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/2513/
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