Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad

The project owner must accept that no construction method or for that matter the project, is free of changes and its subsequently activity of claims. Tenaga Nasional Berhad, in its implementation of capital infrastructure projects for the electrical power industry is not immune to variation orders....

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Main Author: Abdul Kudus, Baharuddin
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2005
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description The project owner must accept that no construction method or for that matter the project, is free of changes and its subsequently activity of claims. Tenaga Nasional Berhad, in its implementation of capital infrastructure projects for the electrical power industry is not immune to variation orders. Every year an average of RM 19.4 million is spend on variation orders. This has impacted the company’s budgeted capital expenditure and the completion of projects within time. The consequential effect is the non-commissioning of associated projects. This study has determined the most frequent causes of variation orders in transmission projects. The owners/project managers group has considered incomplete project scooping and inadequate bill of quantities as the main cause while new requirements was considered by the contractors group. These causes were confirmed during the oral interview as well as the results from the case study. The effect of these variation orders are increase in project cost and delay in project completion. The findings of this study also indicated that the detail project scoping during design stage and the understanding of contract and specification are the two most considered factors to minimising the occurrences of variation orders.
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spelling utm-52902018-02-28T07:56:20Z http://eprints.utm.my/5290/ Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad Abdul Kudus, Baharuddin TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The project owner must accept that no construction method or for that matter the project, is free of changes and its subsequently activity of claims. Tenaga Nasional Berhad, in its implementation of capital infrastructure projects for the electrical power industry is not immune to variation orders. Every year an average of RM 19.4 million is spend on variation orders. This has impacted the company’s budgeted capital expenditure and the completion of projects within time. The consequential effect is the non-commissioning of associated projects. This study has determined the most frequent causes of variation orders in transmission projects. The owners/project managers group has considered incomplete project scooping and inadequate bill of quantities as the main cause while new requirements was considered by the contractors group. These causes were confirmed during the oral interview as well as the results from the case study. The effect of these variation orders are increase in project cost and delay in project completion. The findings of this study also indicated that the detail project scoping during design stage and the understanding of contract and specification are the two most considered factors to minimising the occurrences of variation orders. 2005-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/5290/1/BaharuddinAbdulKudusMFKA2005.pdf Abdul Kudus, Baharuddin (2005) Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering.
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Abdul Kudus, Baharuddin
Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad
title Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad
title_full Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad
title_fullStr Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad
title_full_unstemmed Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad
title_short Variation orders in transmission projects of Tenaga Nasional Berhad
title_sort variation orders in transmission projects of tenaga nasional berhad
topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
url http://eprints.utm.my/5290/
http://eprints.utm.my/5290/1/BaharuddinAbdulKudusMFKA2005.pdf