An Evaluation of Critical Factors Impeding Performance of State Financed Road Construction Projects in Botswana

Abstract

The study tried to evaluate the critical factors that impede the quality performance of state financed road construction projects in Botswana. There have been variations on completion time, cost and quality of state financed construction projects in Botswana and other developing countries. The study therefore classified factors that are thought to lead to poor quality performance of road construction projects. A questionnaire consisting of 15 quality performance factors were distributed to 120 participants with construction associated background, they were mandated to rank their responses on a 5-point Likert scale. The data was analyzed via the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. It was discovered from the results that the five major critical factors that have direct impediments on quality performance of state financed road construction projects are; financing processes of the project, issues on health and safety, project managers skills and knowledge, profitability of contractors, and experiences of the contractor in the industry. The results also showed that project quality performance had a positive linear relationship with the critical quality performance factors from the developed multiple regression model. All the five major critical quality performance factors were significant and had positive coefficients.

Keywords: Project performance, Quality performance factors, Contractor’s challenges, Government projects, Construction projects

DOI: 10.7176/JESD/11-8-11

Publication date: April 30^th 2020