ANALYSIS OF THE SUCCESS FACTORS INFLUENCING IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Year 2014, , 21 - 36, 01.09.2014

A.g. Rajasekaran P. Valli

https://doi.org/10.24107/ijeas.251226

Cited By: 1

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating factors influencing success in construction project. The objectives are identify success factors existing in projects and also to examine the important index of these success factors in construction project. This study was conducted detailed manner through questionnaire and collecting the response from construction experts. There are seventeen factors identified as project success factors and based on this questionnaires are framed for survey. Detailed questionnaires are floated to Engineers, Site Engineers, Contractors and the responses are collected. It gives a background of the successful factors. Problems and constraints of the construction projects are also analyzed

Keywords

Success factors

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