Environmental Factors and Construction Managers’ Performance
Oyelami, Kehinde Olufemi; Oyedele, Adebola Jumoke & Adegoke Johnson Olufemi
Department of Quantity Surveying
Osun State College of Technology PMB 1011
Esa Oke, Osun State, Nigeria
Email: distinct.ok@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Some environmental factors like economic, technological, cultural, legal, political, social, demographic and physical/ecological/climatic/geological environments are considered as some of the major challenges that impede the performance construction managers in most construction projects worldwide. As a result of this challenge, this study is set out to identify and assess the impact of these environmental factors on the performance of construction managers. These environmental factors that affect the performance of construction managers were discussed and include economic, technological, cultural, legal, political, social, demographic and physical/ecological/climatic/geological environments. Questionnaires were distributed to gather information from those who have acted or are presently acting as Construction managers. The results of the study revealed that all the respondents had encountered one or more of these environmental factors in their experience as construction managers with physical factor affecting respondents most with a mean score of 3.31 followed by economic factor with a mean score of 3.24. Cultural factor has the least effect with a mean score of 1.24 followed by demographic factors with a mean score of 1.48. It was discovered from the study that these factors can lead to project abandonment, loss of value for money, loss of credibility of construction managers, project time and cost overrun. The researcher then concluded by recommending that the awareness of these environmental factors should be created through organized seminars/workshops and that construction managers should be equipped with effective tools of management (planning, coordinating, organizing, and so on) to be able to reduce the impacts of theses environmental factors to the barest minimum.
Keywords: Environmental Factors, Construction Managers, Performance, Construction Management.
