Construction project control in the UK: current practice, existing problems and recommendations for future improvement

Yakubu Olawale; Ming Sun

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.10.003

Construction project control in the UK: current practice, existing problems and recommendations for future improvement

Yakubu Olawale^*, Ming Sun

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Engineering Systems & Supply Chain Management

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The aim of this study is to address the main deficiencies with the prevailing project cost and time control practices for construction projects in the UK. A questionnaire survey was carried out with 250 top companies followed by in-depth interviews with 15 experienced practitioners from these companies in order to gain further insights of the identified problems, and their experience of good practice on how these problems can be tackled. On the basis of these interviews and syntheses with literature, a list of 65 good practice recommendations have been developed for the key project control tasks: planning, monitoring, reporting and analysing. The Delphi method was then used, with the participation of a panel of 8 practitioner experts, to evaluate these improvement recommendations and to establish their degree of relevance. After two rounds of Delphi, these recommendations are put forward as "critical", "important", or "helpful" measures for improving project control practice.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	623-637
Number of pages	15
Journal	International Journal of Project Management
Volume	33
Issue number	3
Early online date	6 Nov 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.10.003
Publication status	Published - Apr 2015

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International journal of project management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Olawale, Y & Sun, M, 'Construction project control in the UK: current practice, existing problems and recommendations for future improvement' International journal of project management, vol. 33, no. 3 (2015) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.10.003

Keywords

cost control
good practice
project control
project management practice
project overrun
project success

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Construction project control in the UK
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International journal of project management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Olawale, Y & Sun, M, 'Construction project control in the UK: current practice, existing problems and recommendations for future improvement' International journal of project management, vol. 33, no. 3 (2015) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2014.10.003
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