| Author | Sharif, Mohammad |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.CM-10-01 |
| Subject(s) | Construction industry--Afghanistan--Costs
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| Note | 143 leaves : ill. |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. CM-10-01 |
| Abstract | The World Bank-supported projects in Afghanistan that significantly contribute implementation of the country's national development strategy are often affected by cost overrun issues caused by a variety of problems in the current post-conflict environment of the state. The implementation phase; in which the several sub-components of the projects are executed in the area under direct responsibility of the government agencies, and technical consultancy of the project implementation units, are considered as a problematic stage of the projects' life cycle. A qualitative research based on case studies was designed to contribute the prevention of cost overrun problems of such projects through identifying the problem items; analyzing the causes; and proposing effective strategies for solving them. The methodology consists of determining research assumptions, data collection criteria, and developing interview forms through a literature review; preparing case reports; analyzing the cause and effect natures of the problems; converting the main causes to the objectives; and finally setting up the effective strategies for achieving them. The collected data encompassed different cost overrun cases of five construction projects in Balkh and Faryab provinces of Afghanistan under the two major "Strengthening the Higher Education" and" the National Solidarity" Programs supported by World Bank. Through the cross-case analyses were identified sixteen items concerned to the main three stakeholders such as the general contractors, the related government agencies, and the project implementation units. By structuring the cause and effect trees, there were listed out most likely causes of each problem, from which were developed the related long and short term strategies after converting them to the objectives. The long term strategies, some of which were already the parts of Afghanistan National Development Strategy were concerned to a numbers of the government agencies. Some non government agencies such as the Afghanistan Reconstruction and Development Services through which procurement of the projects are conducted, the Project Implementation Units, and the General Contracting Companies were assigned to make more detailed operational contributions in ongoing project management processes. The result of the study were a set of the identified problems causing cost overrun of the mentioned projects in Afghanistan, a comprehensive table showing the causes, the objectives and strategies of its solutions, and the contributing departments of each strategy; and separate allocation of issues to the four key stakeholders of the projects. |
| Year | 2010 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. CM-10-01 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Civil and Infrastucture Engineering (DCIE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Construction Engineering and Infrastructure Management (CM) |
| Examination Committee(s) | B.H.W. Hadikusumo;Chotchai Charoenngam;Noppadol Phien-wej |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | AIT-Balkh University Partnership Project |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2010 |