Causes of contractor's failure in Gaza Strip

Dissertant

al-Hallaq, Khalid Abd al-Rauf

Thesis advisor

Anshasi, Adnan Ali

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

Department

Department of Civil Engineering

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2003

English Abstract

Failure, collapse, bankruptcy, and best are common words in the construction industry since construction industry involves many risks. This research is conducted to determine the causes of construction business failure and to investigate the severity of these causes from the contractor's point of view. The objectives of this research have been achieved by means of interviewed questionnaire.

The questionnaire included fifty three questions distributed to seventy-five contracting companies.

Sixty-five questionnaires from which received and analyzed to determine the severity of each factor affecting contractor's failure. The gathered data include the sample characteristics of the study population and the five main groups; managerial, financed, expansion, environment, and political. The results of analyzing 53 causes of failure showed that the main cause of contractors failure are: delay in collecting dibs from clients (donors), closure, depending on banks and paying high profits, lack of capital, cash flow management, lack of experience in the line of Gaza Strip, absence of construction regulations, low margins of profit due to competition, award contract to lowest price, and lack of experience in contracts. The results of this study recommended that PNA must take the risk when Donors delay the dibs, modify and improve the construction regulations, connect price with index, introduce coherent polices towards groups suffered people injured by failure, conduct training programs to explain the external and internal factors affecting the construction industry, and award tenders to accurate estimate cost and not necessary to the lowest bidder.

The study also recommended the contractors to avoid bank loans, react to political and environment changes, not to increase the number of projects and not to increase the volume of project, make sure that top management must not be of same knowledge and experience, and to calculate and consider political and environmental risks in costing and estimating contracts.

Main Subjects

Civil Engineering

Topics

• Industries
• Safety measures
• Palestine
• Gaza Strip
• Construction

No. of Pages

116

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-300887