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A Study Into The Effects Of Timely Delivery Of Construction Project On Economic Development Of Nigeria
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1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
All
construction contracts allocate time between owners and contractors.
Hence the significance of this study would better inform improved
project relationships and communications and enhance construction
administration practices between owners and contractors.
The
findings would also enhance and broaden time of wide range of risks that
could materialize during the design, and construction phases of a
project which would subsequently result in better and more prudent
designs specifications.
1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The researcher will
limit the study to the effects of timely delivery of construction
projects on the economy of Nigeria, using responses from some selected
project supervisors from Julius Berger Nigeria Plc and Marlum Nigeria
Plc in Uyo, AkwaIbom State as a case study. Findings and recommendations
by the researcher may not be used for general analysis as the
researcher could not assess numerous construction projects due to time
and financial constraints.
1.8 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
Construction
of projects in the public sector has assumed significant functions,
hence the need for assessment on the cost and time impacts of
construction of projects in order to achieve overall project objectives.
Historical project schedule and duration data is treated as
confidential by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc hence getting data for this
study was very difficult. Data collection and analysis was therefore
limited to the data received from project supervisors in the field of
project construction.
1.9DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Economy:An
economy consists of the economic system in a certain region, comprising
the production, distribution or trade, and consumption of goods and
services in that region or country. An economy is the total aggregate
sum of all transactions of value between two agents, such as one
individual to one other individual, or between groups of individual
activity, such as in organizations to other organizations, and between
one nation and another nation.
2. Construction: In the fields of
architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that
consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being
a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human
multitasking. Normally, the job is managed by a project manager, and
supervised by a construction manager, design engineer, construction
engineer or project architect.
3. Deliverable: Deliverable is a
term used in project management to describe a tangible or intangible
object produced as a result of the project that is intended to be
delivered to a customer (either internal or external). A deliverable
could be a report, a document, a server upgrade or any other building
block of an overall project.
4. Project management:this is the
discipline of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling
resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavour
with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often
constrained by funding or deliverables),undertaken to meet unique goals
and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added
value.
5. Time: This is a dimension in which events can be
ordered from the past through the present into the future,and also the
measure of durations of events and the intervals between them.
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