Coordination Goals for Major Construction Project

The effective coordination has been regarded in both theory and practice as a critical factor of success in construction projects. Therefore this study is carried out, for study the actual coordination methods adopted by the contractors at construction site. Previous coordination studies have focused on the time spent on coordination, its frequency, and its relationship with performance. However, coordination goals have received less attention, and their relationships with coordination methods and performance are not known. This purpose of this study is to identify what coordination goals are adopted and to what extent coordination methods and goals for construction projects are achieved. In this project work, eight coordination methods and six goals were derived. To achieve objective of this study, a questionnaire was designed accordingly and sent to five contractors for survey. Follow-up interviews were conducted with one to two engineers from each contractor. In this project work, it was difficult to investigate goals in this study without quantifying goal priorities. Assumptions made in quantifying the priorities of goals are examined here. The top three goals were scored 3, 2, 1, respectively. This means the first goal accounted for 50 % of the purpose, and the second and the third accounted for 33 and 17%, respectively. The average percentage of goal achievement of different coordination methods is also found out for identify the better coordination method for all five construction projects. The questionnaire also includes the replacement possibility of coordination methods with any other coordination method. And the replacement possibility is then calculated in percentage. If 5 out of 10 interviewees says the meeting is replace by anothe