dc.description.abstract | The construction resources are most
necessary for running the construction projects
consistently up to their finishing stage and
construction resource planning and
management compulsory to ensure project goal
in any project that the on time handover within
budget. The whole construction industry of Sri
Lanka was affected by advent of COVID-19
pandemic outbreak and the most construction
projects had to face the difficulties of effective
resources management. The research approach
has been taken in to investigate the resource
finding issues that arisen with COVID-19
pandemic in four highway construction projects
which selected from four provinces in Sri Lanka.
The study also focused to identify the effects to
projects' delay, cost and quality. Through the
literature review around topic background,
seventeen resource finding issues related factors
were identified under three categories that
human, material and financial. Then, the
importance level of identified factors were
justified to this particular study through the
responses gathered using questionnaire survey.
The responses were taken from construction
professionals (project managers, planning
engineers, construction managers, QA/QC
engineers, quantity surveyors and site engineers)
who selected according to the researcher
judgement from four contractor firms. Then
factors were analyzed and ranked using Relative
Importance Index (RII) and descriptive statistics,
utilizing Excel and SPSS software. The results
presented that the whole factors perfectly
affected to resource finding issues and were
discussed with qualitative findings to show their
effects on projects’ delay, cost and quality.
Finally, concluded the identified effective
solutions for continuing highway construction
projects during COVID-19 pandemic period | en_US |