Examining The Stakeholder’s Perception on Best Practice Measures to Reduce Road Construction Projects Delay in Tanzania.

^*1Gabriel, S |  ²Tekka, R | ²Mwishwa, Y

*ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8656-401X

¹College of Engineering and Technology, ²College of Architecture and Construction Technology,

^1,2Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Box 131, Mbeya, Tanzania

*Corresponding author Email: seperatus.kikalagirwa@tarura.go.tz

Abstract

The construction industry is globally recognized as one of the fastest-growing sector contributing directly and indirectly to the development of several other sectors of the economy. Despite its significance importance, and based on persistently reasons, the industry has often overwhelmingly with various challenges including inability to finish the road construction projects within a given schedule. That is road construction delays. This study aimed to examine the stakeholder’s perception on prevailing best practice measures to reduce construction projects delay in Tanzania. The study adopted the questionnaire tool and the survey interview to collect the respondent’s opinion from 208 respondents having experience of more than five years obtained through purposive sampling. The mean scores and the relative importance index (RII) of the data were computed using SPSS 24 tool to obtain the descriptive information and inferential statistics. The findings have revealed ten potential factors for construction project delays and thirteen best practices that whenever implemented can assists to minimize delays. The identified best practice measures were categorized in clusters to indicate the project participants who plays the significant role in minimizing the delays. The current study proposes the future research to focus on identifying the relationship between the strategic cluster categories in identifying which cluster category correlate highly towards minimizing the construction project delays.

Keywords: Construction Industry, Road Network, Road Construction Projects, Delays, Best Practices Measures,

Citation: Gabriel., S., Tekka., R., & Mwishwa., Y., (2025), “Examining the Stakeholder’s Perception on Best Practice Measures to Reduce Road Construction Projects Delay in Tanzania”, Project Management Scientific Journal, 2025, 8(1): pp.205-221. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/pmsj.v8i1.9

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