An Empirical Study of Major Factors Affecting Productivity of Construction Projects

Abstract

Productivity analysis in construction is a hot research topic among various research scholars and academicians throughout the globe; because of the increasing globalization in the business, the organization needs to be competent enough to grow. The cost of low productivity in big construction and infrastructure project is too high, and to deal with this, various researches have been done to sort out the factors affecting construction productivity. In this research work, there are four identified areas which are to be assessed in terms of their effect on construction productivity which are “(1) management, (2) technological, (3) labor, and (4) external”; further, these four areas are further subclassified into various parameters which drive these four major areas. A structured set of questionnaires is made and floated among the industry people and academicians. The methodology adopted for the study is to collect the data using a structured questionnaire survey. The collected data have been analyzed, and a few statistical tests were performed on the data. The findings of the study conclude that the top three attributes affecting construction productivity are planning and scheduling, availability of material, and storage areas for materials having a relative importance index of 0.69, 0.68, and 0.67, respectively.