Abstract:
The construction industry of Pakistan is facing many challenges leading up to several problems in the construction sector. These challenges include, but are not limited to, lack of skilled labor, political influence, environmental issues and inflation etc. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) endorses that every project is governed by the triple constraint. The triple constraint includes the cost, time & quality of a certain project. All these factors affect each other in a positive or a negative way. One of the main factors affecting all these three constraints is the rework that is carried out.
Reworks result in cost overruns, time delays and in some cases, may also contribute to poor quality. However, many scenarios involve poor construction quality leading to reworks. The main purpose of this study is to identify, explore, quantify and hence rank the possible risks that may lead up to reworks in road infrastructure projects of Pakistan.
To this day, no research regarding the reworks in road infrastructure projects in Pakistan has been conducted. However, previous studies regarding reworks in construction industry have been conducted in other countries like Australia, China and Malaysia etc. From these studies it has been learned that the construction industry however being diverse have a high number of common potential risk factors that lead up to reworks regardless of the area of specific area of the industry.
Regardless of the generality of the potential risk factors, there is always some difference between the problems that might occur in a developed country and a developing country like Pakistan. Hence, these potential risk factors need to be vetted and analyzed to conform to the road infrastructure industry of Pakistan. With the help of this research the potential risk factors can be anticipated well within time and a proactive approach can be taken towards them instead of a reactive approach which will hugely affect the cost, time and quality of the project.
