Name: Ahmed Khalid Feda
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, UQU, 2017
Advisor Committee:
Ass. Prof. Yasser Aboel-Magd
Head of Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“Factors Affecting the Testing and Commissioning in Construction Projects and its Consequences”
ABSTRACT
Construction industry is growing very fast, and projects became very complex in their systems, equipment’s and the technology being used. From here testing and commissioning interferes to ensure the functionality and performance of these systems and equipment’s in accordance to its design and manufactural requirements. This case study subject is about the factors affecting testing and commissioning for construction projects in general, including the consequences of the factors and some possible solutions to prevent it. Moreover, the study was based on a questionnaire that contains 25 factors affecting the testing and commissioning and, those factors were identified by (the researcher as a testing and commissioning engineer, previous literature reviews and, specialized experienced testing and commissioning engineers and by the contributions of the questionnaire respondents). The study questionnaire collected 135 complete responses in the duration of almost two weeks, through respondents in Saudi Arabia with variation of different (nationalities, organizations, level of experiences and, job titles), and used a five-point ranking technique to rank the factors by the mean of the respondents ratings for each factor. Furthermore, the study indicates that the highest mean factor that affect testing and commissioning is “Project Specification” with a mean of 4.526, and the lowest mean factor is “Criteria of the snag list” with a mean of 3.348. However, regardless of the ranking of the factors. It seems that all the factors have a significant impact on testing and commissioning, as the minimum mean for all the 25 factors is “3.348” and the overall mean is “3.91”, which are consider relatively high. Also, the study discussed the 10 highest ranked affecting factors consequences and offered some possible solutions, in addition of offering 6 recommendations to increase the testing and commissioning efficiency.
Keywords: Testing and commissioning, Construction projects, Factors affecting testing and commissioning.
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