Client's Perception on Architect's Performance in Contract Administration

In most contract administration, clients perceived that, the performance of architect have no significant impact while undertaking their responsibilities, this justification attributed the client’s responses negatively toward engaging the services of architect to managing and coordinating contract activities. Based on this factor, this research paper intended to study the relevant of clients and the architects in contract administration with regard the architect responsibilities. Therefore, the framework of this methodology, employed inductive approach to obtained the necessary information on how does clients perceived architect performance. Data was collected using mixed method (quantitative and qualitative method) to identify the problem related to the Architect performance. The data obtained was analysed to figured out the negative and positive responses of the clients. The result obtained shows that, the image of architect in contract administration is subjective depending on the magnitude of the contract, majority of the respondents highlighted the advantage of architect services on an average platform, because majority of the client within the scope of the research work were not contracting out their project due to cost of hiring Architect compared to employing non architect to serve in place of the Architects, the client expresses that, majority of Architect are not concentrating in interpreting contract document, terms and conditions between the parties involve in contract administration. Hence, with regard the subject and the result obtained, architect should work in accordance to their professional ethics in carrying out their responsibilities in order to manage contract administration effectively