FACTORS DETERMINING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS’ SUCCESS: A CASE OF BU’URA BORU PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF ADAMA CITY

Abstract

The study attempted to examine factors determining construction projects’ success with particular reference to Bu’ura Boru preprimary schools of Adama city. In order to attain this objective, a combination of both descriptive and explanatory research design was used along with mixed research approach. Target population of the study was about 402 that consists 108 permanent employees including the project site managers, 264 daily laborers, 12 team leaders and 12 community elders from the 12 kebeles, 5 team members at sub-city and 1 at city levels; from which 200 sample were used using Yemane’s formula. As such, the researcher applied a census towards permanent employees and purposive sampling techniques for the rests. Both primary and secondary were collected through self-administered questionnaire. The instruments were checked by professionals and a pilot study was conducted to increase the content validity of the study while a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was computed for its reliability test. The study employed both descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation to describe the practice of the factors; and inferential statistics like correlation and regression analyses to analyze the level of relationship between independent and dependent variables with the help of SPSS. As a result, the findings showed that there was a good practice of the four factor groups of the project success except that there was a budget deficit in some cases, scarcity and high inflation of construction materials. Finally, on the basis of findings of the study, it was recommended to exert a cumulative efforts by all stakeholder in order to motivate the society and also searching for other sources of fund. It was also recommended that government needs to play its role in prioritizing the projects, avoiding unlawful trade practice and stabilizing the market by increasing productivity. .