| Abstract: | The construction industry in developing countries faces challenges of different kinds.
Most of them are characterized by time delay, cost overrun and poor quality
construction mainly because of poor performance of the contractor. Now a day
Ethiopia has engaged in construction revolution through conducting different mega
construction projects. The AAHDP is also one of the mega projects which
government has engaged to solve city dwellers house problem. However, the project
had faced multi-dimensional quality problems. Most of the houses transferred to
house occupants could be witness for these quality defects of the house. Regarding to
the issue many local Media had given coverage recently. Also most of the resident
have grievance on the quality of the house. This research initiated to assess the
overall quality performances of the houses in the case of project 13, 14 and Bole Ayat
sites. To come up the study completed, the research had set four basic research
questions and objectives. And also the research applied different types of data
collection methods and methodology. Distributing 196 sample questionnaires to
selected respondents from house occupant, in-depth interview with three project
consultants and observation were the major data collection methods applied by this
study. Then the study reveals that most of the quality defects of the projects are
related to finishing work problems and however the structure and design work of the
project does not have any quality defects. Water leakage, poor roofing and rain
disposal, poor finishing work, poor design related to difficulty to move in the house
for children, elders and disabled people are major quality defects of the project. The
research had also found the major causes for these quality defects of the project.
Poor workmanship, delay of project material supply, delay of the project, low project
budget and poor contractor’s performance are major causes of quality defects of the
projects. In general most of these research participants are not satisfied with project
quality. |
