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Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients

The Indian construction industry faces increasing challenges amidst serious performance shortfalls. Confronting similar issues in past decades, other countries such as the UK, USA, and Singapore commissioned high-powered studies and set up industry development bodies to address their own prioriti...

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Main Authors:	Loganathan, Santhosh, Srinath, Purushothaman, Kumaraswamy, Mohan, Kalidindi, Satyanarayana, Varghese, Koshy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017
Subjects:	TH1-9745 Building construction
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spelling	my.usm.eprints.41428 http://eprints.usm.my/41428/ Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients Loganathan, Santhosh Srinath, Purushothaman Kumaraswamy, Mohan Kalidindi, Satyanarayana Varghese, Koshy TH1-9745 Building construction The Indian construction industry faces increasing challenges amidst serious performance shortfalls. Confronting similar issues in past decades, other countries such as the UK, USA, and Singapore commissioned high-powered studies and set up industry development bodies to address their own priorities. Initiatives in other countries are brieﬂy reviewed before outlining the launch of the “Construction Industry Improvement Initiative India” (Ci3 India) that aims to address our own challenges. This paper focuses on identifying and launching a platform to address the current and imminent critical issues in the Indian Construction Industry. Nineteen critical issues were identifed, verifed, and validated through four focus group sessions at two Regional Roundtables with 54 high calibre large building construction clients, academicians, and other invited experts. The identifed issues were consolidated to 10 Action Items. Seven Action Teams were then mobilized to work on the 10 Action Items. Having consolidated a base consensus of clients on the way forward, it was also proposed to develop a “Construction Clients’ Charter” that will set out basic principles, protocols, and targeted good practices by lead clients, who by voluntarily agreeing and implementing these together, could catalyse signifcant industry improvements Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/41428/1/jcdc2017.22.s1.7.pdf Loganathan, Santhosh and Srinath, Purushothaman and Kumaraswamy, Mohan and Kalidindi, Satyanarayana and Varghese, Koshy (2017) Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients. Journal of Construction in Developing Countries , 22 (1). pp. 121-144. ISSN 1823-6499 http://web.usm.my/jcdc/vol22_s1_2017/jcdc2017.22.s1.7.pdf
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description	The Indian construction industry faces increasing challenges amidst serious performance shortfalls. Confronting similar issues in past decades, other countries such as the UK, USA, and Singapore commissioned high-powered studies and set up industry development bodies to address their own priorities. Initiatives in other countries are brieﬂy reviewed before outlining the launch of the “Construction Industry Improvement Initiative India” (Ci3 India) that aims to address our own challenges. This paper focuses on identifying and launching a platform to address the current and imminent critical issues in the Indian Construction Industry. Nineteen critical issues were identifed, verifed, and validated through four focus group sessions at two Regional Roundtables with 54 high calibre large building construction clients, academicians, and other invited experts. The identifed issues were consolidated to 10 Action Items. Seven Action Teams were then mobilized to work on the 10 Action Items. Having consolidated a base consensus of clients on the way forward, it was also proposed to develop a “Construction Clients’ Charter” that will set out basic principles, protocols, and targeted good practices by lead clients, who by voluntarily agreeing and implementing these together, could catalyse signifcant industry improvements
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author	Loganathan, Santhosh Srinath, Purushothaman Kumaraswamy, Mohan Kalidindi, Satyanarayana Varghese, Koshy
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title	Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients
title_short	Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients
title_full	Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients
title_fullStr	Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients
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publisher	Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Identifying and Addressing Critical Issues in the Indian Construction Industry: Perspectives of Large Building Construction Clients

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