Key Performance Criteria Influencing the Selection of Construction Methods Used for the Fabrication of Building Components in the Middle East

Alireza Moghayedi and Abimbola Olukemi Windapo

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Abstract: There is a lack of an efficient systematic approach to the selection of appropriate construction methods for building projects. Not only various innovative methods are now available, but also established methods may often be adapted inappropriately, without recourse to the necessary scientific foundation of their efficiency. The result is that there is a low level of performance on building projects. This study examines how key performance criteria were used in the selection of construction methods on projects. The study employed an extant review of the literature, cross-section survey of construction managers of building projects and experts interview in the Middle East to identify and evaluate the influencing of the key performance criteria on selecting construction methods for building projects. It emerged from the Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Analytical Hierarchy Process analysis that key performance criteria consisting of time, quality, and cost have strong positive significant roles in the selection of construction methods used on building projects and that these selection criteria differed depending on the building components. The study concludes that the likelihood of a construction method being selected for use on projects in the Middle East depends on its ability to shorten the duration, improving the quality and reduce the cost of projects.

Keywords: analytical hierarchy process (AHP); building project; construction method; Middle East; Pearson correlation coefficient; performance criteria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.81673

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