The study of problems of building construction management in design and cost estimation processes

Abstract

The objective of this study is to study the problems of building construction management in design and cost estimation processes under construction management of Ban Bueng Municipality, Chonburi province. The results of this study can be applied to improve the work efficiency and reduce errors. The instrument used in this study is questionnaire collecting from current contractors or former contractors of Ban Bueng Municipality 51 persons. The questionnaire is divided into 2 parts. Part I is the general information of respondents and part II is the inquiring about the frequency and severity of the factors causing the problems in the process of design and cost estimation in building work. The sets of tool used in the analysis of descriptive statistics are percentage, mean, standard deviation and severity index. From the analysis, it is found that the top 3 problems in the process of design and cost estimation in building work are (i) details of the design and the assembly list are not clear, (ii) insufficient worker for workload and (iii), the provincial commercial price is not current, respectively.