Assessment of Quality Performance on the Housing Construction project in Addis Ababa city Administration: Case of Jemo Condominium Houses in Addis Ababa

Abstract

In Ethiopia construction performance quality is evident in the construction of condominium houses. The main objective of this study is to identify why the quality of housing constructions struggle to deliver good quality houses despite the AAHDP Office’s efforts to promote them and to draw conclusions about what needs to be improved for them to be able to improve their performance. This research involves both qualitative and quantitative approaches for data collection and analysis. In addition, observation, film and data were collected from documents. The main activities in the research design are core problem identification, research objective to tackle the problem, ope-rationalize the variables through intensive literature review, identify population, data collection and data analysis and conclude the research. The findings concerning the support programs indicate that HDPO provides capacity building schemes to small-scale and MSEs. The findings further reveal that the training provided to both small-scale contractors and MSEs is too short and only means introducing them into the program. Thus, the training has major effect on improving the performance of small-scale contractors and MSEs during executing their tasks. The research finally analyses the constraints that could contribute to the poor performance of small-scale contractors and MSEs. The main constraints identified are technical incapability of MSEs and managerial incapability of both small-scale contractors and MSEs. Besides more constraints related to stakeholder management, culture, material, environment and equipment are identified.