| Abstract: | Many projects around the world continue to fail, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars for the organization due to delaying projects. Construction project completion delay can be defined as late completion of work compared to the planned schedule. Construction project completion delay can be improved by schedule practice assessment. This study was conducted with an objective of examining schedule practice of 20/80 condominiums housing construction project at Koye Feche site in Addis Ababa that are under construction. Descriptive research design was adopted to identify these schedule practice and its consequences by using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The target populations of the study are all contractors, consultants, clients, and small enterprise of the 20/80 condominium housing construction project. The selection of respondents was made by stratified random sampling techniques, 187 questionnaires were distributed to stakeholders and make key informant interviews of clients and consultants for balance. Descriptive analysis such as mean, frequencies, and factors analysis were used to analyse the data and the analysis was conducted by using SPSS version 26. Based on the findings the following schedule practice were identified: financial problems, highly bureaucratic organization, delay in raw material supply to site, delay in payment, absence of consultant’s site staff, poor inspection, low productivity, planning and scheduling project work, rework due to quality, and lack of strong organizational structure. The rest schedule practice that relate with micro small enterprise and external schedule practices are indicated. It is recommending that all parties in the project need to coordinate and communicate all their efforts for the construction of quality and timely on its time frame house for the better and developed housing delivery. |
