Managing the Completion of Abandoned Construction Projects

Abstract

ABSTRACT Completing abandoned projects is an important pillar of supporting the national economy by taking advantage of the basic services provided by these projects to citizens. Despite the interest of the countries of the world in completing the abandoned projects, this issue did not receive the required attention by the higher administrations in most ministries, as the completion of these projects is still limited and ineffective. This study aims to identify the most important factors that led to the abandonment of construction projects in Iraq and then determine the most important ones represented by financial, technical, and administrative reasons, and then proposing an administrative system that adopts decision-making techniques (MCDM) with Building Information Modeling (BIM) in its construction concerned with updating the administrative, financing and technical aspects of abandoned projects in a manner that suits the period of time in which the project will be completed., by determining the optimal alternative to Public-Private Partnership (PPP) contracts to finance them by making marital comparisons between standards and alternatives depending on the analytical network process (ANP ) technology and then updating the bill of quantities for abandoned projects by choosing The perfect alternative to its paragraphs based on the use of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) with BIM. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, its data were collected from literature and previous studies related to the topic of abandoned projects and from personal interviews with specialists and then depended on a methodology that consists of two parts from the questionnaire and the case study. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed and evaluated using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SPSSv.26) as well as the relative importance index. The results of the data analysis showed that one of the most important factors that lead to the abandonment of projects in Iraq is related to the financial aspect, the administrative aspect, and the technical aspect, and it obtained relative importance of 81.6, 79.4, and 78.2, respectively. As for updating the financing side of abandoned projects, it turns out, depending on the VIII application of ANP technology, that The best type of contract that meets all the criteria for the case study and according to the percentage of completion, the nature of the project and its type is a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) contract with a weight equal to 0.445. Finally, with regard to updating the bill of quantities for abandoned projects, by choosing the best alternative for them, based on the techniques of AHP and BIM, the criteria for availability of material and modernity were of the greatest importance compared to other standards. The results of the evaluation questionnaire of the proposed system showed that it achieves the purpose for which it was set, has efficiency and ease when used, and contributes to giving appropriate alternative solutions in addressing the causes of project abandonment as well as updating them. Finally, the researcher reached a set of conclusions for various aspects of the topic, including the lack of a clear administrative system to manage the completion of abandoned projects, in addition to the weakness of the data update system used in various aspects. The methods of decision-making and decision-making are among the important methods in making decisions regarding the selection of optimal alternatives, based on criteria that have been defined scientifically and in the financing and technical sides.