tailieunhanh - Impacts of change management on risk and cost management of a construction projects

This study aims to identify risk and cost managed in the change management of the construction projects. Quantitative study is organized and questionnaire as an instrument is used to collect the information from the construction experts in Klang Valley, Malaysia. | Impacts of change management on risk and cost management of a construction projects Journal of Project Management 4 2019 157 164 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage Impacts of change management on risk and cost management of a construction projects Mohamed Ibrahim Khalifa Haloua Razali Samina and Mushtaq Ahmadb a Faculty of Engineering Management University Putra Malaysia UPM Malaysia b Department of Civil Engineering Tenaga Nasional Univeristy Malaysia Uniten Malaysia CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Construction projects are always problematic and difficult to manage in certain stages. Man- Received October 2 2018 agement in construction industry has been characterized as being weak insufficient nebu- Received in revised format No- lous backward and slow to react against changing conditions. This study aims to identify vember 19 2018 risk and cost managed in the change management of the construction projects. Quantitative Accepted January 12 2019 Available online study is organized and questionnaire as an instrument is used to collect the information from January 14 2019 the construction experts in Klang Valley Malaysia. Random sampling techniques is used to Keywords collect the data 105 questionnaires are distributed and 90 ones are returned. The correlation Construction Projects analysis shows significant relationship between cost risk and change management. The re- Change Management liability test indicates satisfactory result to continue the questionnaire where Cronbach coef- Cost Management ficient alpha value exceeds the level of . The study finds that design changes client and Risk Management contractor related changes are mostly occurred in change management of construction pro- jects. Tendering on the basis of an incomplete design which then changes during the course of the construction has been found as the key reason of the changes. Through a paper based exercise site .