Relationship between Project Consultants’ Performance and Project Success in the Rwandan Construction Industry

Abstract

As discovered, today's Rwandan construction industry is developing day by day, which plays a very important role in the country's economic growth. In the construction industry, project consultants play a very significant role in providing services for such projects. The project consultants provide services from the beginning of the project to the completion of the project. Using project consultants is very useful for construction projects because it can ameliorate project efficiency and effectiveness. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between project consultants' performance and project success in the Rwandan construction industry. The data used in this study were obtained from primary and secondary sources. The secondary data was attained through an elaborated literature review of various books, articles, and papers related to this research to outlining and describing the chief ideas of this research title. The primary data was compiled through a questionnaire survey that was directed to 110 selected professionals in the construction projects in Rwanda to collect data from the site for statistical analysis of the research to test the hypothesis. However, a total of 90 usable responses were received within the scheduled period representing the response rate of 81.82%, which is likely to be representative and acceptable. Data collected from the questionnaire surveys were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS), excel spreadsheets, and Relative Importance Index (RII), which provide more merit presentations. The survey results show that even if there are many obstacles in the use of project consultants in the Rwandan construction industry such as lack of knowledge and practice in project consulting, lack of well-trained project consulting professionals, lack of training opportunities in project consulting, lack of knowledge

An investigation of how stakeholders influence construction project performance: a small and medium sized contractor’s perspective in the Jordanian construction industry

“…, 2014). This does not seem to be unique to Jordan since authors in other countries have also reported similar problems (Masengesho et al. , 2021).…”

“…Also, these results could be further explained by research which points to a weak contractor-consultant relationship in Jordan and the little authority vested in the consultants by clients (Abu-Reishah and Hiyassat, 2021;Sweis et al, 2014). This does not seem to be unique to Jordan since authors in other countries have also reported similar problems (Masengesho et al, 2021).…”

“…According to Masengesho et al (2021), consultants contribute significantly to the successful implementation of construction projects, although research about the nature of this relationship is scant. Nevertheless, the most discussed consultant-related factors that impact the contractors' performance include consultant team experience and capabilities; communication effectiveness; and documentation quality, completeness and complexity (Masengesho et al, 2021;Abu-Reishah and Hiyassat, 2021;Do et al, 2021). Hammad et al (2008) reported that in Jordan's construction industry, consultants contribute to project delays through poor-quality tender documents and designs.…”

“…H2.1. Consultant-related factors have a positive direct affect on the contractors' project performance (Odeh and Battaineh, 2002;Ibironke et al, 2013;Sweis et al, 2014;Alkilani et al, 2017b;Masengesho et al, 2021;Abu-Reishah and Hiyassat, 2021).…”

“…According to Masengesho et al. (2021), consultants contribute significantly to the successful implementation of construction projects, although research about the nature of this relationship is scant.…”