FACTOR AFFECTING TIMELY COMPLETION OF GOVERNMENT OWNED CONTRUCTION PROJECT (THE CASE OF GURAGHE ZONE GEDEBANO GUTAZER WELLENEI WEREDA)

Abstract

Most government owned construction projects have experienced delays in their completion and it can be argued that if construction projects are not completed within the planned completion time losses are incurred either directly or indirectly. As Guraghe zone, Gedebano-gutazer-wellene wereda has initiated a number of construction projects but not all projects are completed as planned. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to determine the factors affecting the timely completion of public construction projects in study area. The primary data and secondary data were collected to evaluation of the objectives of the study. Accordingly, the primary data was collected on constructed projects between 2008-2012 E.C budget years. The target population was classified in strata to select contractors, clients and consultants while, purposive sampling was adopted to select the respondents. Accordingly, 57 (on contractors 16, on clients 25 and on consultants 16) sample respondents were selected by using purposive sampling. The results were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential data analysis methods. The descriptive analysis of data such as mean, frequency and percentage while, the inferential data analysis such as correlation coefficients, ANOVA and multiple linear regression were employed. Accordingly, ten independent variables were included in the study and the dependent variable was timely completion of government owned projects which measured by schedule performance index (SPI) which was the ratio of planed schedule and actual execution time of the projects. The descriptive statistics results reread that in average 0.7305 in SPI timely completion of the projects in the study area. This implied that 73.05% the projects was not completed on scheduled time in the study area. The inferential results analysis of multiple linear regression was show that, among ten independent variables five variables were such as factors of design with coefficient of -0.094, factors of contractors with coefficient 0.094, contractual administrative factors with coefficient of -0.054, client related factors with coefficient of -0.138 and experience with coefficient of 0.038, were significantly important factors at 5% level of significant timely completion of governmental owned projects in the study area.