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AUTHOR(S)

Engr Farina Jaffrani, Dr. Sayed Fayaz Ahmed

KEYWORDS

Benefits Realization Management, time overrun, cost overrun, construction

ABSTRACT

The current study investigates the role of Benefits Realization management and its impact on the construction industry because in construction realizing the time and cost of the project has some great contribution in making any project of construction quite successful. The reason behind the failure of any constructional project is that the organization does not meet the objectives and the goals like management of cost and time. For this paper the qualitative research method was utilized, the questionnaire was provided to the participants. The questionnaire has an association with “Benefits Realization Management and its Impact on Project Success in the field of construction”, 46 factors were utilized in the following questionnaire. The summarization of the consequences that have an association with the Benefit realization method, time, and cost overrun in the construction project is represented in the following paper. The factors that affect the construction projects have been divided into seven different categories and these categories were ranked according to the opinion of the participant. In the end, this was concluded that if the unexpected weather change like sudden rainfall is not realized properly as a significant aspect along with inflation and disasters site management had some great contribution in the failure of construction projects.

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