SUCCESS FACTORS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Project will be considered as success when the project is completed on time, within budget and the quality is satisfied by all. Success also can defined as much better results than the expected or normally obtained in term of cost, schedule, quality, and safety.

The success of a construction projects is an important issue for most of the governments, users and
communities. In modern construction projects there are significant challenges for both the clients and contractors to
deliver the project successfully due to increasing complexity in design and the involvement of stakeholders. In
the project management literature, project success has been widely discussed by many researchers. Most of the
studies in project success have been focus on dimensions in how it is measured and other specific factors influencing
the project success. For an architect, a project is success base on the aesthetic performance, and for a contractor,
project is success when the contractor gets a profit from the project .


Project will be considered as success when the project is completed on time, within budget and the quality is
satisfied by all. Success also can defined as much better results than the expected or normally obtained in term of
cost, schedule, quality, and safety. The meaning of ‘success’ itself has undergone many changes due to involvement
of so many stakeholders in nowadays complex project environment. The concept of project success is developed
with criteria and standards to help project participants to complete projects with the most desirable results.
However, this concept remains somewhat of an enigma as there is no agreement on what should be the critical
success criteria on construction projects despite several studies.

A project is considered an overall success when the project achieves the technical performance specifications and missions, also a high level of satisfaction concerning the project outcome among organization, project team and users. The successful accomplishment of cost, time, and quality objectives were regarded as project management success which is directly; project success deals with the final project objectives.

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