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Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production

Although design changes is a significant inhibiting factor to schedule management and cost control in building projects globally, however, the reasons remain largely unknown, and the construction industry is unable to manage the problem effectively. A triangulated approach was employed where 39 reas...

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Main Authors: Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui, Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah, Wang, Chen, Skitmore, Martin
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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TH Building construction
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/20314/
https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1448127
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spelling my.um.eprints.203142019-02-14T07:16:13Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/20314/ Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah Wang, Chen Skitmore, Martin TH Building construction Although design changes is a significant inhibiting factor to schedule management and cost control in building projects globally, however, the reasons remain largely unknown, and the construction industry is unable to manage the problem effectively. A triangulated approach was employed where 39 reasons were first explored through semi-structured interviews with experienced practitioners. Subsequently, a national survey was used to rank the reasons. ‘Value engineering’, ‘lack of coordination among various professional consultants’ and ‘change of requirement’ ranked the highest. Next, exploratory factor analysis revealed eight underlying factors. Finally, the influence of these manifested factors was validated statistically using partial least squares based structural equation modelling. The three most critical factors found are ‘competency of project team', ‘quality and workmanship’, and ‘site constraints and safety consideration’. This paper contributes to the development of new underlying factors inducing design changes, which largely explain design changes as well as enable practitioners and researchers to devise effective preventive measures in controlling design changes in building projects Taylor & Francis 2018 Article PeerReviewed Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui and Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah and Wang, Chen and Skitmore, Martin (2018) Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production. Production Planning and Control, 29 (7). pp. 586-601. ISSN 0953-7287 https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1448127 doi:10.1080/09537287.2018.1448127
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topic TH Building construction
spellingShingle TH Building construction
Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui
Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah
Wang, Chen
Skitmore, Martin
Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
description Although design changes is a significant inhibiting factor to schedule management and cost control in building projects globally, however, the reasons remain largely unknown, and the construction industry is unable to manage the problem effectively. A triangulated approach was employed where 39 reasons were first explored through semi-structured interviews with experienced practitioners. Subsequently, a national survey was used to rank the reasons. ‘Value engineering’, ‘lack of coordination among various professional consultants’ and ‘change of requirement’ ranked the highest. Next, exploratory factor analysis revealed eight underlying factors. Finally, the influence of these manifested factors was validated statistically using partial least squares based structural equation modelling. The three most critical factors found are ‘competency of project team', ‘quality and workmanship’, and ‘site constraints and safety consideration’. This paper contributes to the development of new underlying factors inducing design changes, which largely explain design changes as well as enable practitioners and researchers to devise effective preventive measures in controlling design changes in building projects
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author Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui
Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah
Wang, Chen
Skitmore, Martin
author_facet Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui
Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah
Wang, Chen
Skitmore, Martin
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title Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
title_short Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
title_full Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
title_fullStr Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
title_sort exploring the underlying factors inducing design changes during building production
publisher Taylor & Francis
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url http://eprints.um.edu.my/20314/
https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2018.1448127
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