Author Dr. David Ackah, PhD. Editor Dr. Samuel Kweku Maindson Been, Phd.
Abstract
Project incompletion can be minimized when the factors causing them are identified. The objective of this study was therefore to identify the various factors that affect completion of government projects, the effects of incompletion on the delivery of government projects, and assess and identify the most critical incompletion factors that affect government project delivery in Ghana. Incompletion of a government projects can therefore be defined as the late completion of work as compared to the planned schedule or contract schedule. It could possibly be interpreted as a loss of time. “Time” refers to the duration for completing the project. Time in a project is the project period or in contract administration, it is the contract period. When the project period is delayed, it means the project cannot be completed within original schedule. Incompletion in project would lead to either: extension of time; non-completion; termination of contract; or a combination of two or more of the factors mentioned above. Incompletion in projects may be caused by the project stakeholders, the project manager or project contractor, the project consultants, etc. Assigning responsibility for project incompletion is critical to the allocation of responsibility for time related costs. Lost productivity or loss of productivity is one the most important causes of incompletion among the various causes of projects. Incompletion can be minimized when their causes are identified. Identification of the factors that contributed to the causes of project incompletion has been studied by numerous researchers in several countries. It is common knowledge that our project industry in this country has been bedeviled with a lot of uncompleted projects.
