Checklist of Critical Success Factors for Building Projects

TLDR

Prior studies have identified a set of critical success factors for building projects, derived from an integrated building process model and validated through case histories and interviews. This paper introduces a checklist that building professionals can use to predict project success. The checklist, built from the same questions and categories that identified the success factors, serves as a management tool to spot potential pitfalls and enable corrective action within a collaborative owner‑contractor‑operator team.

Abstract

Previous research has determined the existence of a set of critical project success factors that play an important role in the planning, design, and construction of successful building projects. The basic form of these success factors originated from the integrated building process model, and were then tested using a series of case‐history studies including a formal interview process. This paper presents a checklist that can be used by building professionals as a guideline in predicting the success of a project. The checklist is a management and planning tool for determining potential pitfalls that will permit corrective action before the occurrence of major problems. Items represented in the checklist include questions similar to the questions and categories initially used to gather information for the identification of the critical project success factors. The checklist was developed based on an atmosphere in which the building owner, contractor, and operator work together as a team to develop techniques and relationships for project success.