Essential Site Coordination Problems in Hong Kong Building Projects

9 pages•Published: October 23, 2017

Tak Tsz Yeung, Andy K. W. Ng and Peter S.P. Wong

Abstract

In Hong Kong, it is a common practice for main contractors to divide the projects into work packages by trade and sublet to sub-contractors. The interaction between sub-contractors and main contractors is an important determinant to the success of a project. However, there is an increasing complaint from sub-contractors that they cannot perform to their full capacity because of poor site-coordination by main contractors. This paper aims to identify and categorize the common site coordination problems in Hong Kong Building Projects. Thirty- eight common site-coordination problems were identified through literature and they were classified into six main categories of problems: Construction document; Site management; Site layout; Equipment support; Material support; and Preparation of site area. A questionnaire survey was conducted to analyze the frequency of occurrence (F.I.) and degree of severity (S.I.) of the problems to the projects. The aggregated importance (IMP.I.), taking into account of the frequency of occurrence and degree of severity, of problems on sub-contractors’ time performance were ranked. Frequent changes of construction works was found to be the most important site coordination problem. Most of the important problems caused the delay to subcontract works were primarily related to Construction document.

Keyphrases: site coordination, subcontractor, time performance

In: Marsha Lamb (editor). AUBEA 2017: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference 2017, vol 1, pages 78-86.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/FZL9
	https://doi.org/10.29007/lbcd

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{AUBEA2017:Essential_Site_Coordination_Problems,
  author    = {Tak Tsz Yeung and Andy K. W. Ng and Peter S.P. Wong},
  title     = {Essential Site Coordination Problems in Hong Kong Building Projects},
  booktitle = {AUBEA 2017: Australasian Universities Building Education Association Conference 2017},
  editor    = {Marsha Lamb},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {/publications/paper/FZL9},
  doi       = {10.29007/lbcd},
  pages     = {78-86},
  year      = {2017}}

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