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Critical Success Factors:

Construction Projects

Presented by : Namra mubarak cust pakistan

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CSF

Critical success factor (CSF) is a management term for an element that is necessary for an organization or project to achieve its mission. It is a critical factor or activity required for ensuring the success of a company or an organization.

CSF FOR CONSTRUCTIONconstruction project have specific properties

and additional constraints in terms of specifications, project duration and processes

construction industry includes a wide variety of stakeholders, developed procurement system and not always customized product as an outcome of project

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success factors are identified by the following attributes The limited number of areas in which positive

outcomes will guarantee successful performanceThe key areas where ‘things must go right’ for

the business to flourish The aspects of business that should be highly

attendant by managementThe areas which needs good performance to

ensure achievement of goals’

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Ashley identified these seven factors

Construction activities programming Design planning Project manager commitment to the goals Project team motivation Project manager technical capabilitiesControl systems Definition of work and its field

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Pars Garma Company (company)

Construction of dam Road construction Bridge construction Tunnel excavation Construction of concrete and metal heavy

buildingMass construction of the residential buildings

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Pars Garma Company (company)

In order to identify factors this study was planned and performed in two stages

identify the critical success factorsomitting low-effect factors

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First Level: Objective Identifying the critical success factors and ranking them The first questionnaire includes 32 questions in

Likert type scale which identifies the critical success factors.

The second questionnaire, which was distributed among the research experts after the first one, was in the form of AHP questionnaire and was designed for weighting the criteria and indexes related to the critical success factors.

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Second Level: Criteria Effective factors in project managementEmployer related factors Project logistics related factors Consultant design team related factors Contractor related factors Project manager related factorsEnvironmental factors related to the project’s

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The weights of the second level criteria of critical success factors

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Sub criteria’s

26 sub criteria’s were extracted based on the main criteria's.

The weightage of the overall 26 criteria’s were then calculated which in total equal to hundred

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The critical success factors obtained from the 10 top effective factors in construction project

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ConclusionsBy more concentration on these factors, their

effectiveness could be maximized. These factors assist the managers in utilizing

the resources and facilities and consequently reforming their use pattern.

They accelerate organization’s success achievement by faster removing the existing barriers, especially in competitive conditions.

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Conclusions

They prevent probable perceptual errors and imaginations of the managers based on the importance of some factors to other factors and realize the factors prioritization and impede the realization of various errors.

They help the organization to implement the strategic plans successfully.

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