A study on identifying factors affecting project performance on road construction project

Abstract

This study identifies the project performance of road construction projects which are owned by Government of Indonesia and focuses only on the owner’s perspective. The objectives of the owner are the project completed within specified time and actual cost is not exceed the budget and, which differs from contractor’s point of view in which they want to obtain more profit. Project performance of the road is very crucial for the end-user who travel from one place to another place in order to fulfill the need of transportation of people, good, and service therefore it can increase the economic’s growth of local people around the road and so does national economic growth. From the literature review, the success of the project can be measured from 13 categories, namely: internal complexity, external complexity, supervision and control, owner involvement, design effectiveness, schedule management, budget management, quality management, human resource management, construction resource management, construction method, communication and report and team relationship. That categories will be elaborated into 65 questions. Data collected from the owner’s project manager who located in one of four provinces, namely South Sumatra, Lampung, Bangka Belitung and Bengkulu. Before analyzing data, that data must be tested its reliability by Cronbach’s alpha to find out its validity. Then, data analyzed by the the Pearson correlation and Multiple regression analysis. The result shows that the sechedule management and budget management are highly affected the project performance.