Master of Engineering in Construction Management

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    Evalution of state sector pre - construction delays.
    Jayasinghe, WS; Perera, AADAJ
    This research was conducted to ascertain the pre-construction delays in state sector projects. Data were collected from a sample of 22 projects, where contract value were over Rs.5.0 million for the study, from 11 different state sector organisations. Also, preconstruction durations of 08 private sector projects were obtained and analysed to compare the results with state sector projects. Interviews and documentary research are the two methods adopted for data collection. From the state sector projects surveyed, it was evident that an average of 131.9 weeks with a standard diviation of 55.5 weeks, were taken for the preconstruction phase, where minimum time taken and maximum time taken were 24.6 weeks and 226.3 weeks respectively. In comparison, private sector projects had taken an average 38.1 weeks with a standard diviation of 27.2 weeks, for pre-construciton phase which has a minimum and maximum time of 12.1 weeks and 81.3 weeks respectively. The main conclusions of the research were that unnecessary delay was .resulted due to pre-qualification of consultants and contractors without selecting from ICTAD register/Data bases maintained by respective state sector orgainzations for projects below 10 Million in value. Also, the time delay caused by Consultants/ Technical Evaluation committee to submit the evaluation report and to obtain Cabinet Approval were prominent in the pre-construction stage in state sector projects.
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    Planning techniques applied in construction industry in Sri Lanka.
    Bandula, GHS; De Silva, MWJA
    The construction of roads has become a major cons rue Ion industry in the country from early eighties. Huge sums of money is being spent on Construction / Rehabilitation of roads. The Consultative work, ie Feasibility Studies, Construction Supervision, etc. is done by foreign companies jointly with local companies, who take the contract from the RDA. This exercise is to identify the Management Information System (MIS) adopt by them and the problems they encounter in order to develop a suitable MIS.// Management of information by integrating various technologies to help the managers in making decisions has become popular in the present day world. Initial stages, the MIS were developed in the fields of marketing, manufacturing and production. This can be extended to the Consultative work of the road construction industry too. With the advancement of the computer hardware and software, computer based MIS help the Consultants to achieve their tasks effectively.// Information collected from the individual engineers and the project reports produced by Consultants for six large road projects in Sri Lanka were analyzed in this document.// The results obtained indicate that a computer based MIS can be developed for the Consultants engaged in road construction rehabilitation works in Sri Lanka and the Road Development Authority (RDA) has sufficient institutional capacity to provide information required by the Consultants.// This study leads to further research on detail design of the MIS and it's sub-systems.
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    Pre - construction delays in civil engineering projects in Sri Lanka.
    Fernando, WMC; Perera, AADAJ
    This research was conducted to ascertain the Pe-construction delays in Civil Engineering Projects where it is executed by the State Organisations in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, it was observed that most of the major civil engineering projects were executed with the assistance of Donor Agencies, where special emphasis is highlighted throughout this research. A similar study had be carried out by Mr W S Jayasinghe for Building Projects for his MEng thesis. The main findings were analysed categorically from this Research and they were stated as - Procedural, Institutional and any other clear illustrations. Data was collected from a pilot study of 27 Projects, where Cabinet approval was sought for Projects value exceeding over Rs.5 million. Interviews and documentary research are the two methods adopted for data collection. For detail analysis only 12 Projects were considered since the rest of the Projects had no data available to retrieval. The final conclusion of the research was that the un-necessary delay resulted in obtaining concurrence from Donors. Awareness of the procedure to be adopted by the officers involved in the project work, obtaining cabinet approval at some stage and the submission of TEC Reports in time.
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    Review of ICTAD conditions of contact for building construction works.
    Logeswaran, N; De Silva, MWJA
    The objective of this research project is to review the ICTAD conditions of contract suitable for local building construction works. The Government of Sri Lanka had approved the said document in August 1988 to use in the state sector for both building and civil engineering construction works, which was prepared by the ICTAD, commonly known as the 'ICTAD conditions of contract'. Since the building and civil engineering construction works have some differences in their character and contract administration, which are described in chapter 4, the use of one document is not a desirable approach given the diversity of practices and traditions prevailing in both works. The ICTAD conditions of contract is a document far from perfect and there are plenty of scope for improvements, because this was prepared based on the FIDIC conditions of contract (Third edition) which is 17years old document. Use of a single document to cover the both construction works is not practice in the international construction scene. By considering all the above action was taken to review the ICT AD conditions of contract mainly through literature survey, questionnaire survey and the comparison of selected conditions of contracts. Chapter 7 gives the necessary modifications to the ICTAD conditions of contract. ICTAD should also take necessary steps to review its conditions of contract for building construction works in association with the ACCSL, the Institute of Architects, the Institution of Engineers and the Institute of Quantity Surveyors.