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The Effect Of Timely Delivery Of Construction Projects On The Economic Development Of Nigeria
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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 the Fly Over 2 project
constructed by Julius Berger in Uyo, Akwa Ibom 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.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
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.
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.
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.
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.
Time: This is a dimension in which events can be ordered from
the past through the presentinto the future, and also the measure of
durations of events and the intervals between them.
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