Developing benchmarking scores for the egyptian contracting companies

Abstract EN

In today’s global competitive environment, the Egyptian construction industry is facing major challenges.

The identification of the core competencies of each construction company must relyon quantitative benchmarking of performance between the company's performance data and potential global competitors.

Yet, the Egyptian construction industry is still behind in the realization of competition and the methodologies utilized to increase their market share.

The main dependence till now is on the traditional financial ratios which are insufficient to survive rather than to compete in the new open market.

Currently the benchmarking technique is widely applied in many industrial fields (including construction) as a critical tool for their continual improvement processes.

This paper introduces a newly established group of benchmarking score charts which can be considered as the first of its kind for the Egyptian contracting companies.

For this sake, a field survey was performed to measure the performance of the contracting companies.

These charts were accompanied by a framework for a future successful regular issuance of similar charts.

The paper also compares the British performance in a certain field with the corresponding performance of the Egyptian contractors through the charts.

To complete the cycle of benchmarking, Xerox benchmarking model was introduced with some adaptation to suit implementing the benchmarking process within each contracting company.

Finally, the expected obstacles that would be faced are listed for the sake of avoidance.