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An Analysis of Factors Constraining Quality Management of Building Construction Projects in Awka South L.G.A © JUN 2019 | IRE Journals | Volume 2 Issue 12 | ISSN: 2456-8880 An Analysis of Factors Constraining Quality Management of Building Construction Projects in Awka South L.G.A. Anambra State OZOEMENA MALACHY ONYEBUCHI 1, UDOBI ALEXANDER N 2 1, 2 Department of Estate Management, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Abstract- The study focused on analyzing the factors The researchers also recommends the use of constraining quality management of building experienced contractors and skilled labor. Building construction projects in Awka South Local contractors should be more involved and engaged as Government Area, Anambra State. The specific there should be adequate site supervision and active objectives of the study is to identify the critical management; this affords them the opportunity to management factors constraining quality ensure total compliance to approved quality management of building construction projects in standards of projects. The research showed how Awka South L.G.A., to examine the effectiveness of important the contractor and consultant, as well as staff training in building construction projects, to the owner are in maintaining quality in a building examine proper project cost planning for successful construction. building construction project and to examine the impact of top management support for successful Indexed Terms- Analysis of factors, quality building construction projects. The study was guided management, building construction, construction by four research questions and descriptive survey project, Awka South, Anambra State. design was adopted. The population of the study consists of 44 Architects, 22 Builders, 20 Quantity I. INTRODUCTION Surveyors, 48 Engineers and 23 Estate Surveyors and Valuers. A sample of 157 was adopted which is Projects do not succeed by chance rather; successful the total population of major stake holders in real project implementation is a result of careful estate project management profession in Awka south. conceptualization, design and implementation, The primary data was collected through structured factoring in all the variables which may influence questionnaire. Descriptive and statistical analysis project success in a given locality, Nzekwe, Oladejo was adopted; the data collected was analysed using, and Emoh, (2015). T-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The finding revealed that Labor quality, financial The British Standard Institution defines quality as “the factors, project design, materials, poor planning, totality of features and characteristics of a product or poor site supervision, unskilled labour and lack of service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and communication are factors constraining quality applied needs”, McCabe (1998). Quality can be taken management of building construction projects. The as the degree of goodness or the worth or value of a research showed how important the contractor and good, Nwachukwu (2016), El-Sawah (1998). Quality consultant, as well as the owner are in maintaining policy is the overall intentions and directions of an quality in a building construction project. The organization as regards to quality, as formally researchers recommends among others that the expressed by top management, McCabe (1998). adoption of various improvement measures and Quality management is all activities of the overall technologies in order to adequately combat the management function that determine the quality challenges most effectively; the use of modern tools policy, objectives and responsibilities, and implement and technologies will improve performance and them by means such as quality planning, quality increase quality output. control, quality assurance and quality improvement within the quality system, McCabe (1998). IRE 1701276 ICONIC RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING JOURNALS 41 © JUN 2019 | IRE Journals | Volume 2 Issue 12 | ISSN: 2456-8880 as politics. Due to the characteristics of the input, Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), output and expectation of building projects during the a guide to the project management, states that project pre-construction stage, the construction stage and the quality management is a subset of project management post-construction stage; cost of poor quality has that includes the process required to insure that the emerged to be a key issue. Abbasnejad (2013), opined project will satisfy the needs for which it was that Poor quality breeds several undesirable effects undertaken. It consists of quality planning, quality throughout the entire construction project supply assurance and quality control, (A Guide to the Project chain, thus by extension the entire life span of a Management Body of Knowledge, 2000). Quality Building project. system on the other hand is defined as “organizational structures, procedures, processes and resources for When poor quality activities made during the implementing quality management, McCabe (1998). construction processes are discovered, necessitating costly rework and if undetected, may lead to Quality has become a very popular subject in recent geotechnical and/or structural failures which can have years due to conceptual changes in the industry. terrible consequences including building collapse, Quality and quality systems are topics which have delay, cost overruns, severe injuries and even been receiving increasing attention worldwide, Chan fatalities. Such poor quality activities can be traced and Tam (2000). The finished product in any industry and linked to poor quality management at the should be manufactured to a required standard, one construction stage, where the resultant effects may that provides customer satisfaction and value for only manifest at a later stage. money. The high cost of buildings makes it necessary to ensure quality of the finished product, Chan and According to Oyewande (1992), causes of building Tam (2000). Like the majority of developing failures in Nigeria are attributed as follows; 50 per cent economics, Nigeria has been relying completely on the of the causes owing to design faults, 40 per cent to philosophies, methods and techniques concerning fault on construction site and 10 per cent to product quality that were initiated and developed outside the failure. Building failures could be as a result of defects country. These have been accepted and ill-applied under any or all of the stages in design approval of without any adaptation to suit the backgrounds of drawings and the supervision / construction stage. Nigeria as a developing country. Efforts to improve quality in developing countries like Nigeria should be Quality is affected by shortages of materials, based on methods that stem from their economic and equipment’s, design changes, error in cost estimation, technological backgrounds. Therefore, determining and lack of quality management and lack of budget. the local construction industry’s viewpoint on the The other factors affecting quality are deficiencies in factors which would improve the quality of building scheduling, inappropriate planning and unclear construction projects in Nigeria, and the relative evaluation standards. The significance of these factors importance of each factor, is an essential first step depends on type of projects, working environment and towards establishing methods for a real improvement local culture. of building construction projects in Anambra State of Nigeria. Quality management of building construction problems are very common for real estate project 1.1 Statement Of The Problem: industry players in Nigeria including Awka South Nigeria has been recording increasing number of L.G.A., Anambra State. Over the years, stakeholders collapsed building which could be attributed to poor in the real estate project industry have tried to proffer quality finished products. As many as 1.6 billion solutions to problems of failure, abandonment and people lacked adequate housing (Habitat, 2015).The collapse of real estate projects with a view to achieving problems of homelessness in cities around the world success. There seems not to be an end to such defy generalization, essentially because the growth of challenge. Since the major step in problem resolution every city and the way the authorities attempt to is identification of the problem. It is therefore manage its growth are rooted in history, culture as well necessary to analyze independently the factors that IRE 1701276 ICONIC RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING JOURNALS 42 © JUN 2019 | IRE Journals | Volume 2 Issue 12 | ISSN: 2456-8880 constraint quality management of building Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital), construction projects. Regina Caeli Hospital (Owned by the Roman Catholic Church), St. Faith Hospital (Owned by the Anglican 1.2 Aim And Objectives Of The Study: Diocese of Awka), Health Centres in every The aim of this work is to analyze the factors community and many private health clinics and constraining quality management of building maternity homes. The tertiary institutions includes: construction projects in Awka South Local Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka and Paul’s Government Area of Anambra State, with a view to University Awka (Anglican Communion). Secondary highlighting the critical quality management factors schools includes: Federal Science and Technical that need to be addressed. To achieve this, aim the College, 18 Secondary Schools (government owned). following objectives were pursued. 42 Primary Schools (government owned) and many To identify the critical management factors private secondary
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