QUALITY EVALUATION FOR THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN IRAQ

Al-Fahdawi, Mustafa Shehan; Hassan, Awad S.

doi:10.21608/auej.2024.289124.1660

QUALITY EVALUATION FOR THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN IRAQ

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mustafa Shehan Al-Fahdawi ¹^{, 2}
Awad S. Hassan ²

¹ Department of Educational Planning, General Directorate of Education, Ministry of Education, Anbar, Iraq

² Sudan University for Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

10.21608/auej.2024.289124.1660

Abstract

In view of the development that Iraq is witnessing at all levels, this has led to the attraction of foreign investment as a result of the stability of the security situation throughout the country, and it has become necessary for the construction companies operating at the best level of efficiency and quality to keep pace with the requirements of investors and satisfy customers. Accordingly, The Iraqi construction sector faces challenges in quality-related issues at the expense of excessive costs, delays in implementation, and frequent rework. As a result of competitive bidding in the construction industry, there has been and continues to be an emphasis on speed of implementation and short time horizons and a weak focus on cost and quality in the long term. the idea of this research was formed, as it shed light on one of the most important elements of the construction project, which is quality. Therefore, the research addressed this element and then studied for all stages of the project life cycle This study aimed to evaluate the current quality situation for construction projects in Iraq and identify the factors and obstacles that determine the level of quality in the various stages of the project.In this research, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to a set of engineers, then the data was collected and analyzed using traditional statistical methods that rely on the arithmetic mean and standard deviation to find out the most important factors that affect the quality component of the project.
It was concluded that customer/owner satisfaction is considered one of the most important basic elements that indicate quality in the project. This is followed by a group of other elements that the research recommended should be available and that affect the quality of the project, such as training of employees and workers, implementing occupational safety, activating the complaints and suggestions system, and granting rewards and financial incentives.turned out that the axis of the study of putting the project up for tender had the highest percentage, accounting for about 91.40%, which indicates a clear interest in this axis. The focus of the delivery phase of the project was the lowest percentage, accounting for about 78.9%, which indicates the necessity of involving the beneficiary in all stages of implementation to speed up the process of occupancy of the construction project.

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