An Evaluation of the Environmental Factors That Lead to AbaNdonment of Public Building Project
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The objectives of the study are;
- To identify the characteristics of the abandoned public building projects in Abuja
- To examine the environmental factors that are responsible for the abandonment of public building projects
- To assess the effects of public building projects abandonment on the environment
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
The building industry is established to be the foundation and center of rapid financial expansion of any country (Bhavesh, 2006). Kimura and Maeda (2005) viewed building practice, procedure and maintenance as challenging and require huge investment whose income comes gradually with probable outflow through lack of cash flow management. According to Eric (2003), “the industry is likely to remain a major area of development activity as the need for the provision and replacement of infrastructure become more important in the years ahead”. Therefore, construction projects should be made to be successful since its implementation and activities frequently engage extensive funds, the failure through abandonment, has a harmful effect on the capabilities of the investors, the financiers and for the fact that limited capital are fixed for a long time as opportunity cost for its alternative uses. Thus, the significance of this sector as an instrument of expansion is encouraged by its capability (Chinedu and Fidelis, 2011). Based on the fact that the development sector of the construction industry is a mechanism and the strongest base for rapid financial growth, it therefore becomes very important that building projects are managed professionally to succeed. The successful execution of a building project is very essential in a developing nation by analyzing the quantum of funds wasted and its negative impact to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the nation‟s financial system (Chinedu and Fidelis, 2011). Also according to Turner (2006) opines that the major aim of the construction industry is to deliver and preserve the built environment. Thus the built environment comprises housing, educational, industrial, and commercial and infrastructure facilities. Infrastructure is a broad term that consist the provision of electricity, communications, water, sewerage, gas, air, railways, harbors, roads and the like. Therefore these amenities may be any public work procured by a public authority such as government sector, municipal utilities or private job procured by a private holder or organization or by a private developer (DTI, 2004). Fellows, Langford, Newcombe and Urry (2002) in their works identify the characteristics that influenced the building industry‟s capability to deliver the built environment as:
- plan is separated from construction
- Products have a tendency to be physically huge and costly
- Products are typically executed at the client‟s site
- Presence of hazard and insecurity
- There is disintegration and broad occupation
- Cost determination is regularly based on a structure of bidding.
All these characteristics indicate that the delivery of the built environment is project-based with the contribution of many participants whose tasks are set out in the agreement. Most times, the building project brings collectively individuals or parties that are separate and different to form what has been termed a short-term multi-organization or a temporary project partnership (Murray, Langford, Hardcastle and Tookey, 1999). Therefore the products of building industry are preferred primarily for the services which they assist to build as most company, community, religious, financial, engineering activities etc. work on building infrastructure (Nwachukwu, 2008).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought an evaluation of the environmental factors that lead to abandonment of public building project
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
Primary source and Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
DATA ANALYSIS
The data collected from the respondents were analyzed in tabular form with simple percentage for easy understanding.
A total of 133(one hundred and thirty three) questionnaires were distributed and 133 questionnaires were returned.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain an evaluation of the environmental factors that lead to abandonment of public building project. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of environmental factors that lead to abandonment of public building project
Summary
This study was on an evaluation of the environmental factors that lead to abandonment of public building project. Three objectives were raised which included: To identify the characteristics of the abandoned public building projects in Abuja, to examine the environmental factors that are responsible for the abandonment of public building projects, to assess the effects of public building projects abandonment on the environment. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staff of ministry of building and construction, Abuja. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made supervisors, administrators, senior staff and junior staff were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
- Based on the characteristics of abandoned building projects, the research concluded that:-
- Majority of the public building projects are abandoned after the contract period has elapsed as a result of the delay encountered during the execution of construction works on site.
- Lack of funds contributes greatly and immensely as one of the factors affecting the completion of public building projects as a result of non-provision of funds by the clients.
- The survey also revealed that none of the abandoned public building projects are half completed as at the time the projects are abandoned.
Recommendation
Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made with a view to overcome the environmental factors that could lead to abandonment of public building projects.
- The research recommends that further studies should focus on preparing a more comprehensive programme of works in order to fast track the completion of public building projects in Abuja.
- The research also recommends that further studies should focus on improving working capital, timely delivery of materials and equipments, stability in governance, type of contract, prevention of civil conflicts and geological conditions of the site.
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