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Factors Influencing Material Management Practices in Public Building Project Delivery in Southeast, Nigeria
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Building Construction Materials Management
Abstract
Construction industry globally is faced with a lot of problems, among which is delay in project delivery and cost overrun which to some extent has been attributed to poor material management practices. This study sought to assess factors influencing material management practices in building project delivery in Southeast, Nigeria. The study population comprise of contractors, suppliers, consultants and clients in handling building projects in Southeast Nigeria with total population of 513. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to distribute 348 copies of questionnaire among the four strata. The study objective was achieved using confirmatory factors analysis and kruskal wallis test. The result from the confirmatory factors loadings showed three majorly factors loadings (grouping) from the nineteen items. Components one (On-site factors) has the highest number of loadings related to site induced factors, component two (external factors) with seven loadings related to external induced factors while the component three has three loadings related to stakeholders induced factors. Furthermore, result from kruskal wallis test on investigating the perception of major stakeholders on the subject matter revealed that contractor to a large extent determines efficiency and effectiveness of materials management practices in the study area hence upholding earlier findings that on-site factors is significant towards public building project delivery in the study area. The findings of this study have established that poor material planning and coordination, inefficient procurement system, stakeholders? communication gap, among others have grossly impaired material management practices. More so, the onus majorly lies on the site contractors to put in place measure to ensure effective material management practice in ensuring public building project delivery. While the site contractor is responsible for overseeing management of materials on site, however, the study recommended that project contractor should synergies with other project stakeholders to devise strategies for effective material management practices
Keywords
Material Management, Project Delivery, Stakeholders
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How to cite this paper
@article{1705623,
author = {Ashaolu Stephen, Ojo, O. J., Ajayi, M. O., Sunday, O. G.},
title = {Factors Influencing Material Management Practices in Public Building Project Delivery in Southeast, Nigeria},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2024},
volume = {7},
number = {9},
pages = {248-255},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1705623.pdf},
abstract = {Construction industry globally is faced with a lot of problems, among which is delay in project delivery and cost overrun which to some extent has been attributed to poor material management practices. This study sought to assess factors influencing material management practices in building project delivery in Southeast, Nigeria. The study population comprise of contractors, suppliers, consultants and clients in handling building projects in Southeast Nigeria with total population of 513. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to distribute 348 copies of questionnaire among the four strata. The study objective was achieved using confirmatory factors analysis and kruskal wallis test. The result from the confirmatory factors loadings showed three majorly factors loadings (grouping) from the nineteen items. Components one (On-site factors) has the highest number of loadings related to site induced factors, component two (external factors) with seven loadings related to external induced factors while the component three has three loadings related to stakeholders induced factors. Furthermore, result from kruskal wallis test on investigating the perception of major stakeholders on the subject matter revealed that contractor to a large extent determines efficiency and effectiveness of materials management practices in the study area hence upholding earlier findings that on-site factors is significant towards public building project delivery in the study area. The findings of this study have established that poor material planning and coordination, inefficient procurement system, stakeholders? communication gap, among others have grossly impaired material management practices. More so, the onus majorly lies on the site contractors to put in place measure to ensure effective material management practice in ensuring public building project delivery. While the site contractor is responsible for overseeing management of materials on site, however, the study recommended that project contractor should synergies with other project stakeholders to devise strategies for effective material management practices},
keywords = {Material Management, Project Delivery, Stakeholders},
month = {March},
}